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Blackwater stilt
Johann Friedrich Wagner: Schwarzwasserstelz around 1840

Johann Friedrich Wagner : Schwarzwasserstelz around 1840

Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Fisibach
Geographical location 47 ° 34 '34.3 "  N , 8 ° 24' 4.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '34.3 "  N , 8 ° 24' 4.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seventy-two thousand four hundred and twenty-two  /  269 944
Schwarzwasserstelz (Switzerland)
Blackwater stilt

Schwarzwasserstelz is an abandoned moated castle not far from Kaiserstuhl , which gave its name to the Rhine island in the Upper Rhine on which it stood. Opposite it you can still find the Weisswasserstelz castle ruins on the German bank and the Rotwasserstelz castle across from Kaiserstuhl on the German side at the border crossing .

history

The moated castle on a tiny rock in the Rhine was owned by the barons of Wasserstelz from 1163 to 1330 . Like Kaiserstuhl, Schwarzwasserstelz came from the Barons of Regensberg to the Prince-Bishop of Constance (1294). Nine years later, Bishop Heinrich von Klingenberg also acquired Schwarzwasserstelz and the lower jurisdiction of Fisibach . In 1587 the Heggenzer von Wasserstelz owned the castle. From 1587 to 1831 it was owned by the Tschudi family . Since 1821 the castle has belonged to the municipality of Fisibach. From the middle of the 19th century it was uninhabited and fell into disrepair. Finally it was sold to the Nordostbahn and removed in 1875. The entrance portal of the castle made of sand-lime brick from 1776 by Franz Ludwig Wind , a sculptor from Kaiserstuhl, and two windows were built into the facade of the veterinarian Samuel Moor's house in Zurzach , today at Promenadestrasse 17, in 1875 . The former castle bell hangs in the turret of the Rümikon chapel .

Todays situation

Before the damming of the Rhine, which took place with the commissioning of the Reckingen power plant built between 1938 and 1941, the former castle island was considerably larger. In 1938 the Swiss Army built over the island for the border fortifications of Switzerland with the A4203 infantry bunker for two machine guns, which is still there today and is now privately owned by a foundation.

Bunker on the site of the former Schwarzwasserstelz castle

Artistic reception

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Abbess Agathe Hegenzer von Wasserstelz at the Säckingen Abbey
  • The coat of arms of the barons of Wasserstelz shows three seated water stilts , cf. the current coat of arms of the municipality of Fisibach , Canton Aargau, Switzerland
  • The coat of arms of the Hegenzer shows a six-pointed star on a mountain of three.

literature

  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , p. 252.
  • The remains of Schwarzwasserstelz Castle: Foundation acquires Bunker am Rhein as a contemporary witness. Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 14, 2000, page 49.

Web links

Commons : Schwarzwasserstelz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward Attenhofer: Zurzach in: Schweizer Heimatbücher , No. 180, p. 60
  2. ^ Excerpt from the Commercial Register of the Schwarzwasserstelz Foundation