Brunegg Castle

The Brunegg Castle is a small castle-like castle in the municipality Brunegg in the Swiss canton of Aargau.

It is located around 120 meters above the village Brunegg at the end of a rocky ridge of Chest Mount. The ridge falls steeply immediately east of the castle in the plane of the Birrfelds from. The castle consists of the main castle with living quarters from the 13th century, a garden from the 19th century and two farm buildings. Beginning of the 19th century reduced to the height of the castle tower and united this building with the Palas by the construction of an intermediate tract.

History

In the 13th century, the Habsburgs were on the easily defended rock face to build a castle to protect the south side of their heartland, the own office. The Burglehen awarded the Habsburgs to the taverns of Brunegg. As a first well known name owner Wernher called Brunegg, who died in 1270. Other owners were the Knights of Hedingen, the Lords of Trostburg and the Gessler of Meienberg.

1415 the city of Bern conquered the western part of the Aargau; Brunegg was one of the few castles that offered resistance. Bern withdrew in 1470, the fief and awarded it 1472/73 Family Segesser from Mellingen AG. When in 1528 the Reformation was introduced in the Bernese Aargau, the castle sold the Catholic lasting Segesser Brunegg back to Bern. 1626 and 1664 it was badly damaged by natural disasters.

As the legal successor of the new canton of Aargau took over the castle in 1804. This was 1805/ 06 converted into a castle and used for several years as a nursing home. Since 1815, the Brunegg castle is privately owned until the Hünerwadel family, then in Erbweg until today the family of Salis. Famous inhabitants were the Swiss historian Jean Rudolf von Salis and the Swiss writer Hermann Burger, the February 28, 1989 in Brunegg Castle took his own life. The castle is set in Hermann Burgers 1988 novel, " burner", referred to there as " Bruns life," a literary monument.