Haldenstein Castle

The stockpile stone Castle is a castle with burgartigem character in the community Haldenstein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Plant

The spacious building is bounded on the east by a Bering similar terrace wall. At the two corners of the garden wall are two rooks, two stair towers adjacent to the north and to the south wing. In essence, the system consists of four clustered to a square three storey buildings. In the courtyard there is a fountain from the 1890s. From the south wing protrude two short wings on the east and west.

The splendor inside it can only be guessed at. The chronicler Baron Rudolf von Salis reported that they had " ninety rooms counted, which were furnished to the finest taste, elaborated galleries with gold and adorned with the most vivid colors, and everything that may delight the eye imagine what hunts and landscapes ."

On the ground floor are still vaulted rooms and some Gothic window jambs. The domed hall in the southern annex with a large fireplace dating from 1545 is one of the oldest parts of the plant. A marbled door version on the first floor of the south wing dates from the same year and the magnificent inlaid door could also originate from the 16th century.

The greatest treasure of the castle is probably the state rooms on the first floor of the south wing. The Getäfer with the furnace was sold in 1884 to the German Commercial Museum (later the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin). Today the paneling in the Castle Köpenick in Berlin to visit. Nevertheless, the space in the German Renaissance style is still one of the most valuable of its kind in the Grisons. Some works of art such as a round disc of 1587, with the arms of the shows stone as well as family photos of von Salis are today in the Rhaetian Museum in Chur.

History

The history of the castle has its origins in the Burghaldenstrasse stone above the village. In 1509 was the owner of the castle and manor of Rhazuns, Conradin of Marmels, one of the most powerful feudal lords of Raetia in the late Middle Ages.

Through the marriage of his deceased son Jacob of Marmels widow Haldenstein came to the Milanese nobleman Jean Jacques de Castion, the French ambassador at the Three Leagues in Chur. The new owner was at ease with the wild romance stockpile stone not quite cope and left from 1544-48 to build a new castle in the village of an older stone house. Like nowhere in Graubünden shows Haldenstein here the transition from the castle to castle: The representative building without defensive character had largely lost the defensive character and was more like a mansion or castle.

1545 the shell was completed, to the sumptuous interior was finished, it took three years. Even after the death of the builder of Castion in 1553, the French Legation was with some interruptions continued until 1622 in the castle. In 1608 came an inheritance to his wife Thomas honor rock -looking stone in the possession of the castle, five years later he earned by Franz Carli Hohenbalken the rule. This shows the stone to one of the richest families in the Grisons were. 1656 share the two brothers Thomas and Julius Otto von Schauenstein the possession by lot: the dividing line ran through the longitudinal axis of the castle and Thomas received the downslope, Julius Otto the mountain side half.

The line from Julius ended in bankruptcy in 1700. The heiress of the line of Thomas brought in 1703 belonging to it half in the possession of the family of Salis. 1729 could Gubert of Salis unite the two halves again. 1731, he sat on a floor and built the interior of elaborately. On June 27, 1732 Haldenstein was largely destroyed by a fire, but a year later the system was restored. From this stage of construction with a stucco ceiling is left on the second floor of the north wing. After Guberts death in 1737 the southern half of the castle went to his brother Thomas, Guberts daughter Barbara Cleophea sold in 1763 its northern half of the professors Martin Planta and Johann Peter Nesemann which is operated Graubünden's seminar with at times up to a hundred students, which they before had opened two years in Saluzischen house. 1771 the seminary was moved into the castle Marschlins at Igis. In addition to other modifications of the auditorium was decorated in 1775.

1780 acquired Major Rudolf von Salis both connector halves, the castle later came to Salis - heap of stone Maienfeld, 1832 at the Salis - Soglio who had it rebuilt in 1900. In 1922 it came into the possession of Churers Leonhard Batänjer whose heirs sold it in 1966 a foundation. 1986-1999 it was restored. Today, the local government stockpile stone, the Archaeological Service of the Grisons and a café are housed therein. In the courtyard, the castle and in the castle garden cultural events take place regularly. Main reason is the castle Haldenstein which in August since 2001 every two years in the open-air courtyard to guest. The rooms can be rented by the Foundation for the occasion. The stockpile flintlock is included in the inventory of art and cultural and historical protection objects of national importance.

Grisons Münzwirren

1612 Thomas received from looking stone from the Emperor Mathias the right to mint coins, which he did extensively. Since his coins, however, were of poor quality, and there were angry reactions from Zurich and southern Germany. The Graubünden authorities were several times intervene, but with little success. Because the imperial mint money looking stone had been awarded, also made the von Salis use of it. The mint was in the castle itself, the silver for the earlier coins came from our own mines in Shams and im Rheinwald.

Even in 1718, Rudolf convened by looking stone -Reichenau on the old imperial law, which led to ugly disputes between those of Salis and those of stone Look, until finally the Three Leagues banned the production of coins. Just two years later Gubert of Haldenstein received the right of coinage again under the condition to use a regulation-compliant alloy. Because he did not keep to it, him the right was withdrawn after one year.

After the fire of 1731 Gubert received as compensation the rights for one- coinage of 5000 guilders. However Gubert coined 25,000 florins, which he was verknurrt to a fine of 5000 guilders. Whether and what coins he paid them, is not known. 1766 received his brother's Reichsmünzprivileg, from which he hardly ever made use of. The last Haldensteiner coin dates from 1766.