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Stein Castle, Aargau
Stein Castle ( or ''Ruine Stein'') is a castle ruin above the municipality of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. History The castle was built on a rocky promontory above Baden gorge some time before 1000. In the late 11th century the castle came to the Lenzburg family. By the early 12th century, the cadet line that lived in the castle called themselves the Counts of Baden. In 1172, the castle was inherited by the Kyburg family. When that family died out in 1263, the castle was inherited by the Habsburgs in 1264. The castle was occupied by a bailiff and was the seat of the Austrian administration for ''Vorderösterreich'' (Further Austria) and housed the archive. The castle was besieged and destroyed in 1415 by the Swiss Confederation Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stein Castle (Bavaria)
Stein Castle () in Stein an der Traun is the most important cave castle in Germany. The castle comprises three elements: * the upper house on the almost 50 metre high steeply sloping ''nagelfluh'' rock face; * the cave castle beneath it, which hides a passage to the Traun valley in the rock; * the lower house in Stein itself. History The origins of the upper house are not totally clear. It may have stemmed from a fortification dating to the Roman or Celtic period. Stein was first recorded in 1135. The romantic figure of the legendary robber knight, Hainz von Stein dem Wilden, is closely associated with the castle. He is supposed to have lived in the castle in the early 13th century and was written about for the first time by Lorenz Huebner in 1783 in a "tragic drama about the fatherland". The castle itself was in the possession of the Toerring family from the 13th century to 1633 . Albert von Toerring-Stein was the Bishop of Regensburg from 1613 to 1649. Adam Lorenz von Toe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |