Kyburg Castle, Kyburg, Switzerland Day Tour
Kyburg Castle is a medieval castle located in the municipality of Kyburg in the Canton of Zurich. It is situated on a ridge above the river Töss.
Kyburg Castle was first mentioned in 1027. Its original name was “Chuigeburg” (Kühburg) which means Castle of Cows.
We went to Kyburg Castle on October 26, 2008 to meet Mr. Rene Tongson and some of his martial arts students.
Rene Tongson is a martial artist and one of the two most senior Masters of IMAFP, the International Modern Arnis Federation – Philippines. Rene Tongson was a former student of Arnis Grandmaster Mateo D. Estolloso and is the inheritor of the Abaniko Tres Puntas style.
Mateo D. Estolloso was the the originator and founder of the Arnis style called Abaniko Tres Puntas which Rene Tongson inherited.
The reason why we met Mr. Tongson was because he would like to meet some of the relatives of Mateo D. Estolloso, the brother of the father of my father.
It was an opportunity to meet a person like Mr. Rene Tongson so we went to see him at the Kyburg Castle.
Kyburg Castle was the ancestral castle of the Kyburg family. After the death of the last Count of Kyburg in 1264, the castle was claimed by Rudolf of Habsburg as a family inheritance.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the city of Zurich acquired the castle. It became the “Landvogtie” where the noble Zurich citizens called the “Landvogts” (Governors) resided, reigned and judged.
Later on, the castle was auctioned and the new owners turned it into a museum.
In 1917, the city of Zurich bought the castle back. It is now called Museum Kyburg Castle and it is being maintained by Verein Museum Schloss Kyburg.
According to the information written on the board which you will find in the museum, the Iron Maiden was not a medieval instrument of torture for three reasons:
The contemporary chronicles make no mention of this shocking method of torture or execution, because it was unknown.
The material used is not from the Middle Ages.
In theory the 14 spikes were so arranged that they would pierce the eye sockets, chest and lower abdomen – am impossibility with a figure the height of 2.37. Including the pedestal, this would mean that the eyes were at a height of ca. 2m!
Torture was last used at Kyburg in 1780.
Fire buckets 17th and 18th century. Fire hooks from the Kyburg inventory.
For more information like price of admission and opening hours of Museum Kyburg Castle, please visit its website, Museum Schloss Kyburg.
Related Links;
Museum Schloss Kyburg
Kyburg (castle), in Wikipedia
Kyburg, Zurich, in Wikipedia
Rene Tongson, in Wikipedia
Luv the medieval kitchen! I wish I have a kitchen like that! tapos pritohan ko lang siya ng tuyo hehe
Manay naku hindi tayo nagka abutan kahapon! will ring you bukas