The Löwenburg in the canton of Jura

A ruin worth seeing on a spur above the remote valley of the Lucelle (Lützel) with the remains of a round keep, the palace and various gates and kennels.
The Löwenburg, the ancestral seat of the Lords of Löwenberg, was the centre of a small clearing lordship in the Lützeltal, the border area between Sornegau and Sundgau. Archaeological finds show that the first castle was built on this site in the late 10th century. Nothing is known about the builders, but they are likely to have been the ancestors of the presumably closely related families of Löwenberg and Steinbrunn. As the later ownership structure suggests, this noble clan originally came from the Sundgau, where it owned numerous properties, especially in the Waldighofertal in the area around Henflingen.
In 1235, Heinrich I of Löwenberg was named as the first known representative of his family in a document. From 1250 onwards, Heinrich II and Rudolf I of Löwenberg appeared as loyal followers of the Counts of Pfirter. And when Count Ulrich sold his domain to the Bishopric of Basel in 1271, this also included the supreme feudal sovereignty over the Löwenburg domain. Because the bishop enfeoffed the Pfirters with their old domain, they remained the most important reference point for the Löwenbergs. This dependency, probably chosen voluntarily for reasons of power politics, did not bring any disadvantages to the Lords of Löwenberg, as they received several other properties as fiefs from the Counts.
Around the middle of the 13th century, the Löwenburg was redesigned again. A mighty palace was built in the eastern part of the rampart, while the western part was dominated by a round keep with 3-metre-thick walls. After a fire around 1270/1280, the castle was rebuilt, and in the 14th century it was expanded to include the Zwinger with the gates in front.
After the Counts of Pfirt died out, the Löwenbergs became dependent on Habsburg Austria. This temporarily brought them into conflict with the city of Basel, which was increasingly leaning towards the Swiss Confederation. Despite this, they maintained close relations with the city's nobility.
In 1356, the Löwenburg was badly damaged in the great Basel earthquake. The cistern was buried, the round keep collapsed and was subsequently abandoned. And in 1366, Henry IV, the last male representative of the Löwenberg family, died. The eldest of his daughters, Katharina, had married Konrad VIII Münch von Münchenstein, which is why the rule now fell to her son Johans. He founded the Münch von Löwenberg branch of the family, which existed until 1759.
This new family of owners tried to gain a foothold in the military conflicts between the Habsburg-loyal landed nobility and the city of Basel in the 14th and 15th centuries. to remain as neutral as possible, but nevertheless suffered from the consequences of the war because their property was repeatedly devastated. When the Burgundian nobility began a feud against the city of Solothurn in 1465, the Solothurns conquered the Löwenburg in a retaliatory action, even though Hans Münch von Löwenberg was on their side. The city on the Aare held the fortress until mid-January 1466 on flimsy grounds, but then had to give it back under pressure from the Bishop of Basel.
The Burgundian War, in which the Münchs fought for a time on the side of the Swiss Confederacy against Duke Charles the Bold, brought further financial burdens, which is why the family had to sell more and more of its property and rights from the second half of the 15th century onwards. In 1523, the three brothers Hans Thüring II, Jakob I and Mathias I Münch von Löwenberg decided to sell the largest part of the Löwenburg estate to the neighboring monastery of Lucelle (Lützel) for 13,000 Rhenish gold florins.
The Löwenburg was abandoned after the sale and used intensively as a quarry when the monastery expanded and fortified the farm in the valley around 1580. The remaining masonry quickly fell apart. When the monastery was dissolved after the occupation by France (1792), the old Löwenburg estate was also dissolved. Its individual parts passed into private ownership. In 1956, the Christoph Merian Foundation in Basel acquired the farm and the ruins and had them extensively excavated and restored from 1959 to 1967. Several of the small finds excavated in the process can now be viewed in the museum at the Löwenburg estate.
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[@darot25]

Sind sehr schöne Aufnahmen mit passender Musik dazu. Viele Grüsse, Dani

[@EZuber-ws3ur]

Vielen Dank für das Lob und fürs schauen Dani. 😊
Viele Grüsse
Enzo

[@semare_on_tour]

tolle bilder einfach nur klasse 👍🏻 sind letztlich auch in luceloe gewesen kannte die burg nicht mal. gruss und schönes wochenende

[@EZuber-ws3ur]

Danke Vielmals Semare. 😊 Das freut mich wirklich.
Ist eine schöne Gegend Dort.
Wünsche Euch auch ein schönes Wochenende.
Viele Grüsse
Enzo

[@hdi4eva-castlesbydrone531]

Sehr schön gelegene kleine Ruine, die Du klasse mit der Drohne in Szene gesetzt hast, Enzo. Klasse Videoschnitt und super Video. 👏🤘

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Vielen Dank Michael. Das freut mich ungemein. 😊
Wünsche Dir ein schönes Wochenende.
Viele Grüsse
Enzo

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@@EZuber-ws3ur Das wünsche ich Dir auch.👍