Ratzenhofen
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Ratzenhofen
Community Elsendorf
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 33 " N , 11 ° 48 ′ 18" E
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Location of Ratzenhofen in Bavaria |
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 Ratzenhofen Castle
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Ratzenhofen is a part of the municipality of Elsendorf in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim . Until 1985 Ratzenhofen was also the name of the current municipality of Elsendorf.
location
Ratzenhofen is located in the Hallertau an der Abens about one kilometer south of Elsendorf.
history
Excavations showed that the area was around 1000 BC. Was settled. Eberhard, the eldest son of Count Eberhard von Viehbach from a sideline of the Eppenstein family , is known to have been named after Ratzenhofen for the first time (last quarter of the 11th century). After Eberhard II, Eberhard III, Albert and Heinrich von Ratzenhofen, Count Hanns von Hals appears as the owner of the castle in 1345 .
The rule of Ratzenhofen came through the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg in 1377 to the Dukes of Bavaria and finally to the Dukes of Bavaria-Landshut . Around 1474, Duke George the Rich used a large amount of money to renovate the fortress, and the following year the newlywed duke , who had been married at the famous Landshut wedding , stayed in Ratzenhofen with his wife Hedwig and his servants. Otherwise the rule was administered by carers .
In 1554 the Lords of Mamming came into the possession of the Hofmark Ratzenhofen. After their extinction, Ratzenhofen fell to the Bavarian tax authorities as a fiefdom in 1766. By exchanging his estate Bedernheim bei Mindelheim with the elector, court paymaster Ignatz Josef von Kretz became lord of Ratzenhofen. In the years 1767 to 1771 he had the fortress converted into the current castle. Via Gengolt von Cottel, an officer of Napoleon who married Fraulein von Kretz in 1787, the castle came into the possession of the Zierer family in 1918 via the Zieglmaier, Stampfl and Heindl families, where it has remained to this day.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Patrimonial Court II. Class Ratzenhofen emerged from the Hofmark . At the request of the patrimonial court, the patrimonial court communities Pötzmes , Ratzenhofen and Walkertshofen were formed from the area of the former Hofmark . On January 12, 1945 Unterwangenbach was defeated to the community of Lindkirchen . On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Appersdorf was incorporated into the municipality of Ratzenhofen, and on January 1, 1978 Mitterstetten was added. In 1985 the community was renamed Elsendorf .
On January 1, 2011, the now Ratzenhofen district had 226 inhabitants.
Attractions
- Ratzenhofen Castle. The four-wing complex with St. George's palace chapel was built from 1767 to 1771 and renovated in 1913. The first hop-breaking machine was once demonstrated in the castle. Numerous events take place here today.
societies
- Ratzenhofen volunteer fire department
literature
- Hubert Freilinger: Ingolstadt and the courts Gerolfing, Kösching, Stammham-Etting, Vohburg, Mainburg and Neustadt an der Donau . Historical Atlas of Bavaria I / XLVI, Munich 1977, ISBN 3 7696 9911 4 [1]
- Peter Paul Dollinger - Nikolaus Stark, The Counts and Imperial Lords of Abensberg . Edited from documents and sources, in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 14 (1869), pp. 1–234. [2]
- Johann B. Prechtl, contributions to the history of the Siegenburg market and the Train and Ratzenhofen castles in Lower Bavaria . With the plan d. Marktes Siegenburg from 1678, in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern14 (1869) pp. 235–304.
- Maximilian Hopf, Geschichte der Hofmark Ratzenhofen , in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 60 (1927), pp. 1–36.
- Johann Auer, Fortifications and Castles in the District of Kelheim from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages (Weltenburger Akademie series of publications, History Group), Abensberg 2008, pp. 310–313, no. 64. [3]
- Elisabeth Gäde, Eberhard von Ratzenhofen (died 1097) . Key figure for the Counts of Abensberg, Counts of Viehbach-Eppenstein, Counts Altmann of Freising, Counts of Scheyern, Regensburg 2018, online publication [4]