page_title: Splügen Castle
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Splügen Castle / Description
caption_attribution_description: Hocheingang innen
context_page_description: The ruins of the former Splügen Castle lie east of the village of Splügen in the Rheinwald forest in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is the only castle in the valley.
context_section_description: The ruins of a fortified, double-winged palas and an enceinte (Bering) are visible on the northern side by the old road. Three of the walls, which are well over a metre thick, have survived; the east wall facing the valley has collapsed. The quoins have a clear border (Kantenschlag). One additional wall divides the site into an eastern and western half.
  The elevated entrance with its Gothic archway, with jambs made of tuff, lies at about four metres above the ground on the northern side and leads to the first floor. Putlog holes on the exterior show where the staircase access was. The doors turned in a carefully hewn out stone ring and could be locked with a bar.
  In the lower two storeys were cellars and storerooms that were only lit by narrow window slits. In the western area of the third floor were the living quarters, as can be seen from the remains of weathered windows with their niches for seating and from the fireplace. An exit leads out to a small balcony or garderobe. Nothing is known about the shape of the roof. The kitchen was in the eastern, less well lit area.
  The northern curtain wall is filled with rubble. It is possible that stables and outbuildings stood here. There was probably an external portal in the, now collapsed, eastern wall.
  In the area of the old road there are traces of a barrier wall called a Letzi guarding the valley further upstream.
caption: Inside of the elevated entrance with its hewn-out trunnion ring
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