The remains of the Castle can be visited
Moregg Castle (Ruin) (Obersaxen)

The ruin of Moregg Castle is located in the municipality of Obersaxen in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The ruins of Moregg Castle are located west of Surcoulm and east of the hamlet of Egga on a rocky mountain spur. The complex is easily accessible from the main road via a narrow path through a small stream gorge in just a few minutes.
In Obersaxen, German-speaking settlers advanced into a Rhaeto-Romanic area, where castles presumably already stood. Since the name of a knightly family does not appear on any of the four castles, it can be assumed that the castle name was simply formed with the name of the settler to whose territory the decaying castle belonged.
The name Moregg appears in 1573 with Ulrich Campell as Moreccium, in 1617 with Fortunat Sprecher as Moreck, and in 1742 with Nicolin Sererhard as Morek. A derivation from a personal name or nickname (Mohr, Schwarzer - "Moor, Black One") is most likely. The originally Low German word "Moor" (moor) has only been present in New High German since the 17th century and therefore cannot explain the name.
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At the center of the complex stands a rectangular tower, of which a corner of the wall is still preserved up to a height of three stories. The dimensions are 10.8 by 9 meters with a wall thickness of 1.5 meters. The light corner stones with bossing and edge dressing are striking. Traces of an older rasa-pietra and a younger smooth plaster are found inside and out. Remains of a high entrance on the second floor, as Poeschel was able to observe towards the end of the 1920s, have disappeared. A seven-meter-high section of the curtain wall has been preserved on the west side directly above the rocky precipice. Traces of a gate or other buildings are not discernible.
Written documents about the origin and history of the castle are missing. In 1468, however, the "guot Moreck" (Moreck estate) is mentioned in the agreement on the inheritance of the Rhäzünsers between Jo Niclaus von Zollern and Jörg Schenk; consequently, the Moreck estate and castle must have belonged to Rhäzüns. When the Walser settlers there received low jurisdiction in the mid-14th century, the presence of Rhäzüns ministerial officials was no longer necessary and Moreck was abandoned.
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