Strassberg Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

The ruins of Strassberg stand at about 1,100 m above sea level on a spur-shaped moraine hill, south of the village of Malix (municipality of Churwalden, Grisons), on the Septimer road, whose toll they controlled. The *Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse* dates it to the second half of the twelfth century, but the oldest parts of the upper bailey are often placed around 1200, as no document records its foundation. It was the residence of ministerials serving the barons of Vaz. After 1338 it passed to the Toggenburgs, then to the Montforts, the Habsburgs and the Matsches. In 1499, during the Swabian War, the Grisons took it by storm and set it on fire. Abandoned, and later quarried for stone, it gave its name in 1649 to Johann Anton Buol, who was titled “von Strassberg”. A substantial square keep of four storeys survives, along with sections of the original curtain wall of the upper bailey and the lower bailey at the foot of the hill. The walls were consolidated between 2008 and 2012 by the Grisons Archaeological Service.