Wyden Castle

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Wyden Castle
View from the east

View from the east

Creation time : 13th Century
Conservation status: Receive
Place: Ossingen
Geographical location 47 ° 36 '28.4 "  N , 8 ° 42' 55.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '28.4 "  N , 8 ° 42' 55.7"  E ; CH1903:  696 008  /  273804
Height: 410  m above sea level M.
Wyden Castle (Canton of Zurich)
Wyden Castle

The Wyden Castle stands on the territory of the municipality Ossingen in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland . The building is classified as a B object (middle of the three protection levels) under cantonal monument protection and is included in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

history

The facility is at the exit of the Lattenbachtobel and served to control the Thur valley . It has been rebuilt several times. The oldest part, a defense tower , dates from the 13th century. At that time it served the von Widen family of Habsburg servants , who used this castle from 1243 to 1325. After that it was owned by various Schaffhausen patricians. A well-known lord of the castle from the 15th century was Hans I. von Griessheim , who took part in various battles against the Swiss during the Old Zurich War . Between 1650 and 1798 it was the seat of the bailiff of Winterthur . One of these officials was the painter Felix Meyer . A congress of the German socialists took place here in the summer of 1880, as the Socialist Act of 1878 made a meeting in Germany impossible. In 1903 the castle was acquired by Max Huber , who later became President of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC . This was then accepted as "lord of the castle" in the Herrenstuben Society in Winterthur . The castle is owned by his descendants and is still used as a private residence today.

Building

The structure was badly damaged in the crash of a US bomber on July 19, 1944, but was then renovated and rebuilt according to plans by architects Max Ernst Haefeli , Werner Max Moser and Rudolf Steiger. The US had to pay for it.

The square castle tower has been covered with a renewed tent roof since the 18th century. The stair tower on the tower dates from the 15th century. The residential buildings are attached radially on three sides. The former courtyard extends to the south and is now provided with a half-timbered superstructure. The former chapel is here. The residential wing, which was built in the second half of the 15th century and increased in 1894–95, is built to the northeast. The new residential wing faces west from 1903 to 1904. It was built onto the east wall of the knight's house, which was demolished in 1875 and built in the middle of the 15th century. The pre-bailey to the east now serves as a farmyard. Here is a barn and trot with stepped gable from the 15th century as well as a gardener's apartment, which was built as a barn around 1550.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
  2. ↑ ISOS ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bak.admin.ch
  3. ^ Alfred Ziegler: The Society of the Herrenstube zu Winterthur. Updated to the present day and provided with an appendix by Hans Klaui. Edited by the Herrenstubengesellschaft Winterthur, Winterthur 1956, p. 100.
  4. ↑ Martin Huber: The star architect and the bomber crash . In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 29, 2013, p. 13.