Rannariedl Castle
Rannariedl Castle (also: Rannariegl ) is a castle complex in Upper Austria . It is in Rannariedl in the municipality of Neustift im Mühlkreis in the Mühlviertel high above the Danube . The castle was built as a fortified castle around 1240 . It changed hands frequently. Between 1966 and 1969 the facility was renovated . Just 200 m above the castle is a well-preserved circular cannon from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century.
The name of the castle probably comes from the old German name for tree trunks uprooted by the wind and left lying around. They used to be called Ronen or Ron .
history
Rannariedl was built as a fortification around 1240. It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Passau . The reason for the construction was the possibility to control and tax the Danube at this point. The castle was inhabited by the Falkensteiners, who named themselves after the neighboring Falkenstein castle and were robber barons. In 1301, the Falkensteiners had to pledge the castle because they were in need of money. Between 1384 and 1387 the castle was pledged to Gundacker von Tannberg. At the time of the Hussite Wars , Reinprecht von Polheim received the property for life, but this castle was returned 23 years later.
Due to disputes, Duke Georg von Niederbayern wanted to bring the castle under his control in 1484 . He could not conquer the castle, which was defended under the orderly Nussdorfer. Nevertheless, he received the castle as a pledge after trials, but finally ceded it to Maximilian I in 1506 ( Landshut War of Succession ) . The Habsburgs pledged the property to Max Öder in 1512. In the 16th century, the owner changed often, to Öder came Hans Weisperger von Biberbach, 1547 Hans Hofmann von Grünpichl, 1569 Achaz Öder, 1581 Count Hans von Kevenhüller. At the time of the Turkish threat (1594) it was one of the refuges and was well armed, but it was conquered and looted in the Peasants' War of 1595.
In 1620, Count Gottfried von Salburg bought the castle, which remained in the family until 1725. It then came into the possession of the Clam family before part of the rulership ( seven künische villages ) was acquired again by the Passau monastery in 1765 . The castle chapel was enlarged around 1780 and later became the church of the Rannariedl parish. After the secular power of the Passau bishops was abolished in 1803, the court chamber office in Vienna became the new owner. In 1824 the castle came to Maria Anna Prunner. From 1840 to 1877 the Ichzenthaler family, then Stephan Armer von Ammerstetten, owned the castle. In 1879 the OÖ Volkskreditanstalt was the owner, Johann Setzer in 1891, the Hanß family in 1897, Ludwig Prähofer in 1909, Mathilde von Urban in 1912 and in 1940 the German minister Peter Lukas Reinhold bought the castle.
Between 1945 and 1955 the castle was owned by the Soviet occupying forces. It was then owned by the Chamber of Agriculture and later by Lukas Reinhold. In 1966 the wholesale merchant Josef Schwaiger from Munich bought the castle for 5 million schillings . The facility was renovated by 1969. In 1975 the Ledi company from Liechtenstein bought the building. The castle was auctioned on May 5, 2015.
The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited; the cannon roundabout above is freely accessible.
construction
The high castle is not far from where the Ranna flows into the Danube. The elongated complex was once surrounded by a strong circular wall with three fortified defense towers. The oldest part is in the east, the so-called Lower House, which was probably built by the Falkensteiners. The former castle chapel, which served as a parish church from 1783 to 1953, is built in the southeast. The castle chapel contains a baroque pulpit and statues as well as paintings from the 18th century.
The Upper House, today's main castle, was built in the late 13th century. The residential buildings enclose an inner courtyard with three-story arcades from the 16th century on three sides. On the second floor there are two knights' halls in the Renaissance style. The left side was not built until the 19th century. In the palace garden there is a fountain with Saint Florian and on the back there is Saint Nepomuk with the year 1731.
The Meierhof from the 19th century and the Troadkasten opposite from the 18th century also belong to the castle.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria . 2nd edition Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3850683230 .
- Christian K. Steingruber: A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.
Web links
- Entry via Rannariedl on Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steingruber, 2013, p. 282.
- ↑ Castles at "bargain prices" in Upper Austria . In: krone.at .
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ E