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    7435 Kyburg Castle (German: Schloss Kyburg) is a castle in Switzerland, overlooking the Töss river about 3 km south-east of Winterthur, in Kyburg municipality...
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  • local politics during the 1020s, but the male line died out in 1078. Kyburg castle, southeast of Winterthur (in the modern canton of Zürich), passed on...
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  • Switzerland Kyburg (castle), a castle in the municipality Kyburg, Switzerland House of Kyburg that took their name from the castle County of Kyburg, a former administrative...
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    municipality of Illnau-Effretikon. Kyburg castle is first mentioned in 1027 as Chuigeburch. A settlement close to the castle is first mentioned in the 1260s...
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    historic title of "Princely Count of Kyburg" in the grand title of the Emperor of Austria. The first mention of Kyburg Castle was in 1027 when Emperor Conrad...
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    would rule the southern Kyburg lands led, in 1322, to Eberhard II von Kyburg murdering his brother Hartmann II at the castle. To protect his newly acquired...
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    University Museum. Museum Kyburg Castle, The Iron Maiden, archived from the original on 2008-05-10, retrieved 2015-01-17. Český Krumlov Castle Museum of Torture...
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    Switzerland, which occurred in 1349. The Jews sought refuge in the castle of Kyburg from the surrounding cities of Winterthur and Diessenhofen, as well...
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  • Kyburg Castle during a 2021-2022 archeological excavation. Demolition work was planned near Kyburg Castle, about 20 miles north of Zurich; the castle...
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    Harzburg Castle, the Imperial Palace of Goslar, Trifels Castle, the Imperial Palace of Haguenau [de], Waldburg Castle, Krautheim Castle, Kyburg Castle, Rheinfelden...
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    nearly-intact 14th-century gauntlet was discovered near Switzerland's Kyburg Castle. Modern protective gloves called "gauntlets" continue to be worn by...
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    Trostberg was the Habsburg vogt at Kyburg Castle. Around the mid-14 century the Trostburg line died out. The castle and surrounding estates were inherited...
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    Hegi Castle, Winterthur Ruins of Hohenlandenberg Castle, Wila Irgenhausen Castrum, Irgenhausen Kyburg Castle, Kyburg Ruins of Alt-Landenberg Castle, Bauma...
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    the castle at the foot of the hill. After the extinction of Zähringen line, Burgdorf passed to the Counts of Kyburg. Under the Kyburg or Neu-Kyburg Counts...
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    (Andechs-Merania and Châlon), in about 1230 Lenzburg castle came by marriage into the possession of the Counts of Kyburg. They then founded a fortified market settlement...
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    King Louis IV and even surrendered the Imperial Regalia he had kept at Kyburg Castle. The parleys failed and Leopold continued to attack the Bavarian forces...
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    the fires. The following September, 330 Jews were burned alive in the Kyburg Castle, east of Zürich. Many hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed...
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    Mathis abend) Apparently, some Jews were able to flee to the nearby Kyburg Castle. They hoped to find protection here, but were nonetheless killed in...
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    counts of Bregenz, built Kyburg castle in the tenth century. With the extinction of the counts of Winterthur in 1053, the castle passed to the counts of...
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    conflict with the House of Habsburg inheriting the lands of extinct House of Kyburg, and Ulrich lost the Regensberger Fehde war of 1267/68. Ulrich died around...
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    first Kyburg castle in the later 10th century. He was succeeded by his son Adalbert I (d. 8 September 1030). Liutfried's younger son Werner of Kyburg (d...
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    tradition, the castle was attacked and damaged during the 12th century. In the 13th century, Zug came under the control of the Kyburgs. They founded the...
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  • residence towers such as Thun Castle. The Counts of Kyburg built their castles with massive stones, visible in Kyburg Castle. Originating in 12th-century...
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    Ludwig Lavater (4 March 1527; Kyburg (castle) – 5 July 1586 in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich...
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    Buchegg Castle is a castle in the Swiss municipality of Kyburg-Buchegg in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. The castle, built in 1546, has a square...
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    family members. Eventually, Rudolf of Kyburg inherited the castle and surrounding lands. Following a disastrous Kyburg raid on Solothurn which led to the...
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    wife inherited the County of Kyburg with Kyburg Castle and its lands. By 1096 the counts of Dillingen included count of Kyburg as one of their titles. Hartmann...
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    the area for them, especially the Kyburgs who also owned Thun Castle. Following the Kyburg defeat in the Burgdorferkrieg of 1383-84 and the decisive Habsburg...
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    of Neu-Kyburg started fighting with each other over who would inherit the undivided lands. The fighting led to the "fratricide at Thun Castle" where Eberhard...
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    Freiburg) and the counts of Kyburg, both descended from the sisters of Berthold V. Less than fifty years later, the Kyburgs died out, and large portions...
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