Friberg castle ruins, Trun

Castle site with small remains of walls on an elongated moraine hill on the road from Trun to Schlans. At the highest point are the foundations of an almost rectangular tower measuring approx. 10 by 11 m on a side. Wall thickness, as far as can be determined, of 1.8 m. The masonry is made of roughly hewn pebbles and moraine blocks. A massive wall tooth of the north wall, which rose up to the height of 4 or 5 stories, collapsed on November 16, 1911 down to a low stump. On the north-eastern edge of the site there is an open walled tank cistern. Circular shaft with overflow. The hill-side enclosure, which served as a moat and may have been the site of commercial buildings, has been disturbed by the modern road. It is possible that the castle is connected to the Friberg nobles, but this cannot be proven. It is conceivable, for example, that the Fribergs built the fortress in their capacity as bailiffs of Disentis. According to the synopsis, the administrator Antonius de Carnisio handed over the monastic castle to his brother Lanfrancus in 1249. Among the grievances of this administration, which we learn from a papal document from 1252, it is also mentioned that Antonius sold the “castrum Fridelberg” for a large sum, or rather allowed it to be sold. Disputes over the “castrum Frickberg” also arose between the monastery and the bailiff Hugo von Werdenberg, who then sold the Breil farm and the “Frickberg” castle to the monastery in 1327.

(Regiun Surselva)