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Castle and palace

Burgruine Hünenberg

Hünenberg · 445 m above sea level

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Hünenberg castle ruin
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Photo · CC BY 3.0

The ruin on a wooded hill south-west of the village was the ancestral castle of the Knights of Hünenberg. The castle was destroyed after the Battle of Sempach in 1386; it was excavated in 1944/45 and placed under federal protection in 1961.

Facts

  • Settled around 1100
  • Destroyed in 1386
  • Excavated 1944–1945
  • Keep from around the middle of the 13th century (radiocarbon dating)
  • Located at 440 m above sea level

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More information

Coordinates (LV95): 2,674,678 / 1,225,098

Sources and rights

  • Terrain, relief, municipal boundaries, buildings and hiking trails: © swisstopo
  • Playgrounds and family places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL); the derived database of places (JSON file to download) is also available under the ODbL.
  • Photos of the places of interest: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence with each photo.
  • Position of the sun after the NOAA formulas; shade values from swissSURFACE3D and swissALTI3D (calculated by the zug-family project).
  • Tips link to Zug Tourismus; only name and location are taken over.