Ranfels Castle

Ranfels Castle and Parish Church

The Ranfels Castle is a castle (now the rectory) in Ranfels , in the municipality of Zenting in the Lower Bavarian district Freyung-Grafenau .

history

The Counts of Formbach or the Counts of Neuburg are believed to be the builders of the Spornburg . In 1207 the owners were the bishops of Passau , who enfeoffed the nobles von Hals with it in 1243 . These conferred the rule on as an after-fief . From 1259 to 1262 the brothers Albertus and Fridericus de Ranvels lived here. After the extinction of Halser took over in 1375, the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg Ranfels, 1417 it came through sale to Etzel I. in the possession of the Imperial Count of Ortenburg . In 1438 Etzel sold it to Duke Heinrich von Niederbayern . The castle was destroyed in the Landshut War of Succession and then rebuilt as a palace. In 1517 it was taken over by the knight Johann von Dachsberg zu Asbach. In 1518 he established the castle chaplaincy with the associated castle chapel and fundamentally rebuilt the building by 1520. The gate construction was renewed again in 1577.

In 1784, the castle was bought by the Dachsbergers at the St. Anna monastery in Munich . From there, Ranfels was administered by its own keeper until the Bavarian state bought it in 1833. He removed and sold many components and converted the remaining buildings into the palace chaplain 's apartment . The gate building with adjoining residential buildings in the area of ​​the outer bailey are still preserved from the former castle. The inner courtyard is accessible. The parish church of St. Pankratius, which emerged from the castle chapel, stands on the site of the former main castle.

Building description

Beneficiary's house since 1833, then rectory, two-storey tracts with saddle roofs and an irregular floor plan, medieval core, renovated in 1577; Gatehouse, former chancellery, later stable, two-storey hipped roof building with segmented arched gate passage, at the same time; Circular wall, some with mighty buttresses, quarry stone, probably 16./17. Century; Outbuilding, one-story pitched roof, probably 19th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Zenting (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '59.7 "  N , 13 ° 16' 1.9"  E