Rued Castle

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Rued Castle
Schloss Rued in Schlossrued AG, view of the castle from the main street (2018)

Schloss Rued in Schlossrued AG, view of the castle from the main street (2018)

Creation time : 1160
Conservation status: receive
Place: Schlossrued
Geographical location 47 ° 17 '34.1 "  N , 8 ° 5' 20.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '34.1 "  N , 8 ° 5' 20.7"  E ; CH1903:  649,201  /  238195
Height: 510  m above sea level M.
Rued Castle (Canton Aargau)
Rued Castle

The schlossrued is a small castle in the municipality Schlossrued in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located on a 50 meter high rock ledge north of the village and was built on the foundation walls of a medieval castle .

Rued Castle, lithograph by Johann Friedrich Wagner (1840)

history

The Lords of Ruoda were first mentioned in 1155. These were ministerials of the Kyburger , from 1264 the Habsburgs . Their ancestral seat, Alt-Rued Castle, was once located on the southern side of the valley around four hundred meters away, but was abandoned in the 11th or 12th century and destroyed by the Confederates in 1386 during the Sempach War.

The Ruoda family died out in 1369. The rule of Rued, which in addition to the Ruedertal also included the villages of Kirchleerau and Moosleerau , came by inheritance to the Lords of Büttikon , and in 1429 to the Lords of Rüssegg. From around 1450 the rule of Rued belonged to the von Scharnachthal family , from 1491 to the middle-class Herport family from Willisau . In 1520, Glado May acquired the castle and lordship. The May originally came from Lombardy and had achieved an influential position in the patriciate of the city of Bern .

In 1775 the medieval castle was completely destroyed in a major fire. Between 1792 and 1796 master builder Carl Ahasver von Sinner built a castle on the same site on behalf of the sovereign Carl Friedrich Rudolf May . May handed the castle property over to his youngest son Friedrich Amadeus Sigmund von May in 1838 .

With the exception of the south-east side, Sinner had the main walls of the castle torn down and the rubble was used to fill in the former moat. After 1803, the court archive of the Kulm district was set up here for a few years because the district capital, Unterkulm, did not have the appropriate premises. The von May family lived in Rued Castle until 1861 and then sold it on. The castle is still privately owned today.

The outside of the castle was renovated in 2015. The urgently needed interior renovation dragged on due to a complaint procedure and could only be completed in spring 2018.

building

The castle stands northeast of the village center on a hilltop that juts out into the Ruedertal and presents itself as a four-storey, cubic building in the early classical style. With the high hipped roof and the tower-like central projection on the valley side , the castle resembles a Bern country house, but differs from this type due to its bulk. From the forecourt on the rear side, a flight of stairs leads to the main entrance. A lower terrace concentrically surrounds the castle and the upper terrace in front. Both terraces have been taken over from the previous building.

literature

  • Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I: The districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 216-219 .

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