Wädenswil Castle

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Main building of Wädenswil Castle
Outbuildings
Palace complex above Wädenswil in 1794

The Wädenswil castle stands on a hill on the territory of the municipality Wädenswil in the canton of Zurich .

history

After the Reformation, the Johanniter sold the rule of Wädenswil with all rights to the canton of Zurich in 1549. The Commandery Wädenswil was attached to the city-state by Zurich as a bailiff . This enabled the Zurich Council to strengthen its position on the upper left bank of Lake Zurich at the expense of the Order of St. John. Wädenswil Castle was built for the bailiff from 1550 to 1555. The Alt-Wädenswil castle had to be razed in 1557 according to a decision of the parliament , because Glarus and Schwyz feared that it could become the starting point for warlike actions of the enlarged city-state of Zurich. For 250 years, Zurich bailiffs ruled from Wädenswil Castle. The bailiwick was very popular with the respective candidates from the upscale Zurich estates.

In January and February 1613, Hans Landis and other representatives of the Anabaptist movement were summoned to Wädenswil Castle by Mayor Rahn and Antistes Johann Jakob Breitinger for two religious disputes.

After the rule of the city-state of Zurich collapsed in 1798, the canton of Zurich emerged in Helvetic Republic . The castle was declared a national property and leased to the municipality of Wädenswil. After the collapse of the Helvetic, the self-confident rural population wanted to keep their newly acquired rights. It rose up against aristocratic Zurich and in 1804 the buck war broke out . The arson attack on the Bailiwick of Wädenswil on March 24, 1804 was the insurgents' first act of war. The main building was set on fire and burned down.

In 1816, the Zurich architect Hans Conrad Stadler began building what is now the classicist palace. After decades in private ownership, the German-speaking Swiss experimental station for fruit growing, viticulture and horticulture was established in the castle in 1890 , which was renamed the Federal Research Institute in 1968 and now operates as Agroscope Changins-Wädenwil (ACW) . Its first director was Hermann Müller-Thurgau , the breeder of the Riesling x Sylvaner vine .

Arboretum

The arboretum wood garden , which is located on the slope below the castle, belongs to the castle park. The oldest trees in the 10,000 square meter facility date back to 1836. In 1895 the collection had over 500 species of wood. Because botany has lost its importance in science and research is no longer carried out in the arboretum, the facility has not been dendrologically looked after since 1987 . Exponents of the city of Wädenswil, the Agroscope and the ZHAW founded the Landart association in the Schlosspark in 2008 . The association wants to revitalize the woody garden.

literature

  • Peter Ziegler: Wädenswil Castle . Publishing house Stutz Druck AG, Wädenswil 2000.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wädenswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Jung (ed.): The buck war 1804. Aspects of a popular uprising. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-03823-103-7
  2. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/linkes-ufer/Neue-Triebe-spriessen-im-alten-Arboretum/story/14347041

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '22.9 "  N , 8 ° 40' 35.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred fifty-three  /  two hundred thirty thousand nine hundred and seventy-two