Alt-Regensberg Castle
Description
Alt-Regensberg Castle is a hill castle which was built about the mid-11th century AD by the House of Regensberg in the Swiss municipality of Regensdorf in the Canton of Zürich.GeographyThe ancestral seat of the House of Regensberg was erected on a roughly abbr=on30 high moraine hill and comprises a roughly hexagonal area of about 45m from west to east and 40m from south to north. The remains of the castle are located in Altburg, a locality of the municipality of Regensdorf in the Canton of Zürich. On its northwestern slope the small village of Altburg is situated, nearby the municipal boundary to Zürich-Affoltern and the Katzensee protected area.Archaeological explorationThe dilapidated ruins were scientifically examined between 1955 and 1957. The archaeological findings showed four stages of construction: 11th and 12th century, as well as from 1180 to 1330 by the House of Regensberg, and about 1350 to 1458 by the Landenberg-Greifensee family, and the fourth construction phase from 1458 to 1468 by the then first private owner. The oldest finds suggest a first construction phase in the second half of the 11th century. The still visible massive walls of up to 4m width correspond to the essential features of the state after the third building phase. The excavated portions of the ruins, down to the bedrock, correspond to the living horizon of the first inhabitants of the mid-11th-century site.
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