Rannungen Castle

Main building after renovation (2017)

The Castle Rannungen is a former noble residence in the center of the community Rannungen ( Lower Franconia ). It is listed in the Bavarian Monument List under the file number D-6-72-143-10.

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document as the residence of the "Lords of Rannungen" in the High Middle Ages. In a deed of ownership from 1303, there is talk of a bower at Rannungen, according to tradition, a small hilltop castle to which the church and farms were attached. Later lords and owners of the castle were the von Herbilstadt family and, after their extinction, the barons of Münster from the 16th century, who had wealth in the Werntal (to Euerbach , Vasbühl ), in Grabfeld (to Kleineibstadt ) and in the Steigerwald (headquarters in Lisberg ) were.

The complex has always served as the residence and administrative seat of the aristocratic lords of the village, who until 1803 held rulership and lower jurisdiction over around half of the villagers .

In the course of the peasant uprising , the castle was burned down in 1525. From 1543 it was rebuilt, as the corresponding year on the left of the entrance indicates. The castle survived the Thirty Years' War almost unscathed. It was badly damaged in the great village fire of 1726, but was soon restored. However, when the roof structure and the upper floor collapsed in 1782, the building was no longer completely renovated and converted into a farmhouse apartment on the ground floor. The aristocratic gentlemen therefore lived in the now-gone office building (today the nurses' house / parsonage) or entirely in Kleineibstadt.

As the last member of the Runner branch of the family, Carl Freiherr von Münster died in the palace on November 6, 1823. When the von Münster filed for bankruptcy in 1866 , the castle and the property belonging to it (together with the headquarters in Kleineibstadt) were initially transferred to the Jewish merchant L. Rosenblüth, after which they were sold to the village population. Since then, the castle has been privately owned and used for agriculture.

Outbuilding with a new facade (2016)

description

In a document from the von Herbilstadt family from the beginning of the 16th century, not only the Runner Bower, but also the Bailiwick and the Gaden in the churchyard are mentioned. Today , only two buildings remain of the complex, which originally comprised a larger area including a Gaden complex and probably a ditch (today roughly parsonage, nurses' home, parsonage, school): The main building is a two-story, massive residential building made of sand - and quarry stone with a crooked hip roof . It bears the year 1543, but has been rebuilt or dismantled several times. The core of the outbuilding (former tithe barn of the noble lords) also dates back to the 16th century.

Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 18.3 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} LfD list for Rannungen, p. 3 (.pdf)
2. ^ History of Rennenen

literature

• CF Reinhardt: History of the parish village of Rannungen . Würzburg 1903. p. 18ff.
• Alfred Memmel: 800 years of the parish of Rannungen . Rannungen 1988