Wildegg Castle

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Wildegg Castle
Wildegg Castle (2011).

Wildegg Castle (2011).

Creation time : 1242
Conservation status: receive
Standing position : Noble
Place: Möriken-Wildegg
Geographical location 47 ° 25 '13.9 "  N , 8 ° 10' 13.5"  O Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '13.9 "  N , 8 ° 10' 13.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-five thousand two hundred and twenty-one  /  252447
Wildegg Castle (Canton Aargau)
Wildegg Castle

The Wildegg Castle is a castle in the village of Möriken-Wildegg in Swiss canton Aargau . The facility is located around eighty meters above the village of Wildegg at the end of a rocky spur of the Chestenberg , above the Bünz and the Aare . It has belonged to the canton of Aargau since January 1, 2011.

history

View from the south

In the first half of the 13th century, Habsburg servants had a castle built here to protect the southwest corner of the Eigenamt , the Habsburg core area, and to control a strategically important point on the Aare. It was in 1242 first documented by the Stewards of Habsburg lived in and Wildegg, a Ministerialengeschlecht the Habsburgs. After their extinction, it came to Johann I von Hallwyl around 1340 . Peter von Gryffensee bought the castle in 1437 by the Hallwyl to the fief Wildegg to the 1457 Berne , since 1415 feud mistress in the lower Aargau return. The fiefdom went to the brothers Hans, Hans Heinrich and Hans Thüring von Ballmoos around 1462. Around 1480 the Central Swiss knight Albin von Silenen acquired the Wildegg fiefdom, which Bern disliked, because shortly before that, the Lucerne Heinrich Hasfurter acquired Wildenstein Castle .

Bern withdrew the fiefdom and instead gave it in 1483/84, together with the patronage and the lower jurisdiction to Holderbank and Möriken to the Brugger Kaspar Effinger around 1730 guilders. The Effinger inherited this property eleven generations. In 1552 the castle burned down almost completely as a result of lightning strike, only the masonry remained. Over several years the castle was made habitable again. From 1684 the facility was converted into a residential palace in the Baroque style . In 1825 the so-called Erlachhaus was built next to the castle . The Wildegg and its associated goods passed into the possession of the Effinger family box in 1830 . In 1886 the villa was built opposite the Erlachhaus in the style of a country castle.

West facade of the castle

Julie von Effinger, the last of her line, died in 1912 with no offspring. She bequeathed the castle with almost all of its furnishings and the associated domain to the Swiss Confederation , which handed the entire estate over to the State Museum for administration. The castle was repaired by 1917 and prepared for museum operation. The family heritage also includes an extensive archive with testimonies from several centuries, which was handed over to the Aargau State Archives in 2011 .

On January 1, 2011, Wildegg Castle became the property of a foundation set up by the Canton of Aargau. On this date, the museum was taken over by the Museum Aargau . The Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau approved an annual loan for this in January 2010 with 104 to 22 votes. In summer 2011, the renovation of the castle, which was still financed by the Swiss Confederation, was completed.

building

Castle and kitchen garden

The castle consists of a core of a well-preserved castle from the first half of the 13th century keep and Palas , the end of the 17th century into a residential Baroque castle rebuilt and was expanded. The property also includes an estate , gardens, parks, groves, vine plantations and factories. The entire domain has been managed by the Wildegg Castle Domain Foundation since 2011 and forms a cultural landscape of national importance. The castle with all the outbuildings and the gardens are used and looked after by the Museum Aargau .

Show garden of old cultivated plants

Portal to the kitchen garden

The Aargau Museum looks after a complex with 300 old cultivated plants , vegetables, cereals and berries as well as aromatic, aromatic and medicinal herbs on a large garden terrace . The seedlings are obtained from the ProSpecieRara Foundation , which is committed to the preservation of biological biodiversity .

literature

  • Hans Lehmann : Wildegg Castle and its residents , Aarau 1922.
  • Andres Furger and others: Wildegg Castle. Branch of the Swiss National Museum, Braunschweig 1994.
  • Sophie von Erlach: Small Castle Chronicle of the Wildegg Castle of Sophie von Erlach , ed. and come by Andres Furger, Zurich 1994.
  • Walter Merz (Ed.): The documents from the Wildegg Castle Archives , Aarau 1931.
  • Thomas Pauli, Stefan Hess : Wildegg Castle: New under the Aargau flag, in: Argovia 2011, pp. 264–269.
  • Documentation of the renovation of the Wildegg Castle domain 1999–2011, ed. from the Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics BBL, Bern 2011 ISBN 978-3-905-782-14-1
  • Christoph Reding, Felix Ackermann, Felix Müller: Wildegg Castle. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 926, Series 93). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-099-7 .

Web links

Commons : Wildegg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lehmann 1922, p. 65