Thielle Castle
Thielle Castle ( French: Château de Thielle), also known as Zihlbrücke Castle , is a moated castle that is located on the right bank of the Zihl Canal in the municipality of Gals (Zihlbrügg) in the Seeland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland .
location
The castle was built to protect the Zihl Bridge on the left bank of the Zihl near the town of Thielle . With the construction of the Zihl Canal in 1883, however, it came to rest on the right bank and was assigned to the Bernese municipality of Gals in the border agreement between Bern and Neuchâtel in 1895 . Today it is a few dozen meters north of the H10 , which crosses the Zihl Canal here as a feeder to the A5 .
history
The moated castle was commissioned by Count von Neuenburg Berchtold von Neuenburg in 1261 to protect the Zihl Bridge and was built between 1270 and 1300. Berchtold's son Rudolf was appointed Baron de Thielle by his father . At the same time the previously open Zihl bridge was closed. After David Guillaume Huguenin, Count Henri de Neuchâtel set the castle as Baron de Thielle .
The tradition has to be viewed with caution that in 1269 Rudolf von Habsburg started a surprise attack and wanted to take the castle, but the castle was defended so vigorously that he had to stop his business. The writer himself, David Guillaume Huguenin, says that the statements have not been verified.
The castle is mentioned in 1311 as chastel du pont de Tele . From 1320 to 1325 it was rebuilt with late Gothic and Baroque additions.
In 1476 the castle was part of the line of fortifications of the Confederation against the invasion of the Burgundians (see Burgundian Wars ).
Until 1807 the castle was the seat of Neuchatel, Kastlanei . It then served as a prison until 1848 and came into private ownership from 1861. The castle was extensively restored in the 1960s and 1980s.
description
The former ring walls form an almost rectangular north-west-south-east facing spacious courtyard. Two round tower stumps flank a baroque entrance portal on the former street. At the opposite end of the actual rectangular three to four storey is palace with hipped roof , whose two outer edges by two narrow excessive built-in stairs towers with conical roof are marked. The outside of the palace has narrow, high Romanesque windows, and the associated knight's hall with a large ceiling is on the first floor . A park of around 5300 m² with large old trees surrounds the castle.
Varia
The band 3a of the March-book by Samuel Bodmer (1710) contains the fairy tale of the Republic of Berne from Laupen to the castle Thielle.
literature
- David Guillaume Huguenin: Les chateaux neuchâtelois: anciens et modern , therein: Le Chateau de Thielle. (Ed.) Henri Wolfrath. Neuchâtel 1843, pp. 93–96.
- More books on Château de Thielle and Baron de Thielle on Google Books
See also
Web links
- Bern: Thielle Castle - Le château de Thielle on www.swisscastles.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Anne-Marie Dubler: Zihlkanal. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Historical map from 1879 with the old course of the Zihl as well as the new canal on map.geo.admin.ch ; accessed on March 23, 2018.
- ↑ Jonas Boyve: Annales historiques du Comté de Neuchâtel et Valangin depuis Jules-César jusqu'en 1722. Bern / Neuchâtel, 1854–1855, Tome 1, Livre 2, p. 190, (Google Books)
- ^ A b David Guillaume Huguenin: Les chateaux neuchâtelois: anciens et modern. Henri Wolfrath (Ed.) Neuchâtel 1843, pp. 93–96
- ↑ Gustav Schwab: Switzerland in its knight castles and mountain castles historically depicted by writers from the fatherland. Bern / Chur / Leipzig 1839, Volume 3, p. 246.
- ↑ Bern: Thielle Castle - Le château de Thielle: General , on www.swisscastles.ch ; accessed on March 23, 2018.
- ↑ Bern: Thielle Castle - Le château de Thielle on www.swisscastles.ch ; accessed on March 23, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '20.2 " N , 7 ° 2' 3.4" E ; CH1903: five hundred and sixty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty-nine / 207994