Hochjuvalt Castle

Hochjuvalt above Rothenbrunnen

Hochjuvalt (often incorrectly referred to as Niederjuvalt ) was Innerjuvalt with one of the two castles on the territory of the municipality Roth fountain in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The name is derived from, Jugum altum '(= high yoke ).

Location

The ruin is easily visible on a narrow rocky outcrop about 200 meters high above the Rhine. The original castle path is spilled. After a serious accident in 2010 climbing the very dangerous moutonée is prohibited today. A blackboard with pictures and plans informed in June 2013 the dam Porta Rhaetica about the extremely situated castle.

Plant

The once five-story tower of the hard Hochjuvalt only the western corner has received, with quoins with chipping without bosses and walls with Pietra rasa - plaster with joint line; also there are the remains of a smooth plaster. Access to the tower was on the south-western tower cultivation, its pent roof visibly joined to the third floor with the high input on the tower. An architectural details are two nicks, window and two flues and survived a window in the floor above. On the highest point of the system, the small rocky head, there are the remains of a two-part building. From a younger rectangular building on the south-western foreland few ruins are only preserved. The former approach was dug into the rock and was from the northwest. The excavation of 2012, the northern tower area and remnants of the enemy tower side wall and the southeastern palatial tower cultivation exposed, whose foundations lie in the rock face deep down.

At the foot of the great rock on the old valley road from Ulm and Bregenz to Chiavenna and Milan was as Vorburg a roadblock with customs station; single wall remains and beam holes of two gates are still preserved. This installation at the entrance of Domleschg consisted of a walled courtyard with a square tower at the south corner.

In the overall safeguarding of 2010 - 2011 the great breaches in the walls were closed and the Rheintörlein be reconstructed in the original mass due to the numerous findings. Barrier height and barrier beam mass allowed a reconstruction of the mountain side Torwange, which now also serves as supporting the work of the strongly broken Bering.

History

Hochjuvalt is considered the older of the two castles of Rothenburg and was probably built in the 12th century as the seat of the Lords of Juvalt. The family stood after initial independence in the service of the Bishop of Chur and was first called to 1123 and later in 1149. It was about a lawsuit the Church of Chur with those of Castrisch the serfs Guta Zizers, which occurred a Siegfried of Juvalta and his sons as boni viri.

In the following centuries the lords of Juvalt several more times appear in the documents. So was present as a judge, for example, in 1219 the peace treaty between the Bishop of Chur and the city-state Como a Ulrich von Juvalta and his sons. 1342, the two brothers Albert and Bartholomew of Juvalt and a five-member arbitral tribunal argued decided that the castle " with Lüt and the goods Albertus belong, the Bartholomew but the Tenth and the ground rents ." In an inheritance received by Eglof Juvalt 1372 " called the vesti Jufalt ".

The Hochjuvalt was before 1337 sold or pledged to the Lords of Rietberg of Eglolf I of Juvalt. Evidence of a document of 1340 in which ask Albrecht V and his brother Berchtram, sons of Eglolfs I of Juvalt, the Prince-Bishop of Chur sure to confirm the purchase contract. Johann von Rietberg, died on September 5, 1349, has, even though he had received from his wife Berchta of Rhazuns a son, all his fiefs and goods given to his uncles of Landsberg, his castle Rietberg and the festivals Hochjuvalt. In 1352 the Landsberg renounced in favor of the Bishop of the castle Hochjuvalt for 3500 guilders. After the death of the last Lords of Juvalt, Rudolf II ( 1462 ), sold his daughters Ursula and Barbara, and his widow Elsine ( Elizabeth) born of Heidelberg Castle and the rule Juvalt Pedrutt of Wannis, husband of Ursula von Juvalt, the older daughter of Rudolf II, for 500 guilders.

In the 15th century the castle changed several times as a pledge object owner. She was awarded Eberhard Ringg of Baldenstein, then the Sarganserin Sophia, a daughter of Rudolph, a bastard of Count Georg von Werdenberg -Sargans on Ortenstein, and wife of the knight Marti [n ] of Capol " zem red fountain ". The castles high and Niederjuvalt, Ortenstein, Alt- Süns, New Süns, Rietberg and others were " puuren thumben " of the during the Schamserfehde looted, burned and demolished in 1451. Although the Bauuntersuchung of 2012 has in the tower and in the hall house found by eunen fire, for a fraction Castle by undermining, such as Alt - Neu -five - Süns there is no evidence. The wood Determining the age of two beams of the tower has 1216 as Year of. The tower was on the top floor on two sides projecting military arcades which existed with high probability on all four sides of the tower. By 1550, the Hochjuvalt by Ulrich Campell was mentioned as a ruin.

By the owner, the cultural institution "Pro Castelli » 2010-2013 bailey castle and under the direction of Felix Nöthiger was secured consuming.

Gallery

Wall

Detail of the wall

Drawing the outer ward after Johann Rudolf Rahn, 1894

Restoration of the outer bailey