Schiedberg Castle

Castle arbitration Mountain - mound

The arbitration mountain castle is a ruin southeast of the village of Dado Vitg the community sagogn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Location

The ruin is situated on the difference Berg, a gravel hill. The name arbitration mountain only appears to 1570th restaurant was called the hill always casti, in Roman and early medieval period castrum.

Plant

The center of the elongated castle was a tower, along the southern wall were several residential buildings.

History

A rescue excavation in 1964 and 1968 further investigations show that the place was already inhabited in prehistoric and Roman times and the early Middle Ages. The excavation finds (Iron Utensils, Oven ceramic, non-ferrous metal, glass, bone ) lead to the conclusion that the difference is identical to the mountain in the will mentioned by Bishop Tello castrum of sagogn, where the family owned a stately stone house. West of arbitration mountain, in sagogn, was in the 8th century the center of power of the Viktoriden to which Tello was. In Tello Testament bequeathed the monastery Disentis 765 a mansion with accessories, farms, fields, meadows, vineyards and Alps. The goods were in Innerdorf, in the courtyards to sagogn on Bregl because Heida, where a manor and a Carolingian, St. Columban Church was consecrated hall.

The construction of the noble castle was at 1000; was last expanded the plant around 1250, the castle was the seat of noble free men of sagogn. ; 1137 Chuno de Sagannio is mentioned, one of the first noble Churrätiens.

After the extinction of the house sagogn - Wildenberg Castle in 1320 came an inheritance to the Counts of Berg- Heiligenberg.

Castle and lordship went well for 1352 under the war between the barons of Belmont and those of Will Berg ( Belmonter feud ). Other landowners were the monasteries Disentis, St. Lucius, of Chur Walden, the Diocese of Chur, the Lords of Belmont and Montalt and free peasants. After a fire in the second half of the 14th century the castle was not rebuilt and began to fall apart. Today, the ruins owned by the municipality sagogn.

Gallery

North

East

To the northwest

Diagram of the system