Burgdorf Castle

Burgdorf Castle is a fortress in the municipality of Burgdorf within the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage web site of national significance.During the High Middle Ages the land that would end up Burgdorf become owned with the aid of the Kingdom of Burgundy and then after 1080 by way of the Dukes of Zahringen. Either the kings or the dukes built a fort at the left bank of the Emme river, this castle became first stated in 1080 as castellum Bertoldi ducis.

In 1077 and 1084, a fortification on the Emme become referred to, but the particular castle changed into now not named, but it could have referred to Burgdorf.In 1139 it became noted as the Upper Castle which means that there was a Lower Castle close by. In 1210 it turned into referred to as castello Burgdorf. In 1090, the Zahringens inherited the lands of Rheinfelder circle of relatives when the final male inheritor died. In 1127, Duke Konrad of Zahringen received the Rectorate over a good deal of Burgundy from Emperor Lothair III.