Zwing-Uri
The castle ruin Zwing-Uri (formerly also Twing-Ury ) stands on the "Flüeli" hill north of Amsteg in the Swiss municipality of Silenen .
It has been owned by the Swiss Castle Association since 1928 . Archaeological studies from 1978 and 1989 shed light on the history of the settlement and construction of the Flüeli hill. He was already in the middle Bronze Age around 1500 BC. Settled. The residential tower was built in the first half of the 13th century and had a floor plan of around 10 m × 10 m. In the first quarter of the 14th century, an extension with a ring wall and neck ditch took place , but this remained unfinished. The castle was abandoned around 1350.
Zwing-Uri belongs to the series of Habsburg castles mentioned by name , which, according to the tradition of the White Book of Sarnen , were destroyed in the freedom struggles of central Switzerland .
“Fronvogt, what will the fortress be called that
we are building? - Uri should be called her,
because under this yoke you will be bowed. "
The castle with an inn that existed at the time was bought as an apartment by the Austrian painter Josef Hoffmann in 1888 . He later handed it over to the General German Artists' Cooperative as a holiday home.
The ruin is a cultural asset of national importance . In the hill, between the castle and the railway line, was the federal bunker "A 8760 / K8 Brindlistollen", in which an underground data center is operated today .
Web links
- Castle world: Zwing-Uri Castle
- Hans Stadler: Zwing-Uri. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '27.6 " N , 8 ° 40' 13.7" E ; CH1903: 694 080 / 181 087