Neurandsberg Castle

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Neurandsberg Castle
Entrance to the main castle from the courtyard (2005)

Entrance to the main castle from the courtyard (2005)

Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Rattenberg -Neurandsberg
Geographical location 49 ° 6 '4 "  N , 12 ° 45' 32"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '4 "  N , 12 ° 45' 32"  E
Height: 592  m above sea level NN
Neurandsberg Castle (Bavaria)
Neurandsberg Castle

The castle Neurandsberg located on the Schlossberg at Neurandsberg, in the municipality of Rattenberg in the district of Straubing-Bogen , Region of Lower Bavaria .

Location and description

The system is only ruinous , at 588  m above sea level. NN above the village of the same name. Remains of the surrounding wall of the inner castle and the remains of a kennel wall with half-shell towers are still around four meters high from the medieval complex .

Below the summit castle , near the location of the former castle chapel , a pilgrimage church was built between 1698 and 1700 . This built over the underground remains of the abandoned castle chapel of the Birth of the Virgin Mary from around 1460. A seated figure of Mary with the baby Jesus, which was previously in the castle chapel, has been preserved there. The oldest of the surviving votive tablets dates from 1682. The interior of the church is late baroque.

history

Pilgrimage Church of the Birth of Mary

The Lords of Rampsberg (Ramsperger) appeared from the middle of the 12th century as ministerials for the Counts of Bogen and also of the Passau Monastery . Around 1330, a Friedrich Ramsperger built Neurandsberg Castle just south of the family's ancestral castle in Altrandsberg .

After 1436 Haimeran Heuraus conquered the castle on behalf of Duke Albrecht III. (1438-1460).

In the period that followed, various families owned the castle, for example the Barons von Notthracht around 1550, and it later served as a prison .

During the Thirty Years' War the castle was razed in 1633 by Swedish troops under the dragoon colonel Georg Christoph von Taupadel . A reconstruction of the fortress was not carried out, only the church was rebuilt. Already dilapidated, the castle came to the Bavarian maintenance office around 1800 .

The approximately 1.8  hectare area and the remains of the building are protected as architectural and ground monuments (No. D-2-6842-0002). Access is free all year round. Information boards provide information about the history.

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister: Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 71.
  • Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 27-30.

Web links

Commons : Burg Neurandsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments Straubing-Bogen, page 6 (.pdf)
  2. ^ Access to the Neurandsberg castle ruins