Ritzing Castle

Ritzing Castle today

The Castle Ritzing is located in the same district of the municipality Kirchdorf in Rottal-Inn of Bavaria (Seibersdorf Street 9).

history

A Dietmarus von Richingen appears here in the 12th century . In the 14th century, the Stettner family with Perichtold von Stetten is based in Ritzing . 1418 Daniel Auer is mentioned in Lichtenau at the castle . Wilhelm Knab succeeded him in 1489. Duke Albrecht IV assigned the seat of Ritzing to Georg Plattner, city governor of Braunau . In 1508 the seat was given to Gabein Trauner. He was followed in 1517 by his son Christoph Trauner. Since this was still underage, the princely councilor and hunter Hans Georg von Nussdorf was authorized to receive the fief. Gabein Trauner was only able to receive the fief in 1551. After his death, he left no children, Ritzing fell to V. Duke Albrecht back. This gave the seat to Georg B (P) randstetter, Princely Chamber Councilor. In 1584 the seat was passed on to his son Virgil Brandstetter. Then there is another Georg Prandstetter to be mentioned, princely advice to Julbach and Mautner to Braunau. The Brandstetter family remained in the possession of Ritzing until 1619.

In 1619 Gregori Stängl, carer at Julbach and Mautner zu Braunau, bought the Ritzing seat from the Brandstetter family through Michel Schmit, chamber secretary at Munich. The Stängl remained in the possession of Ritzing until 1723. They had the lower jurisdiction (presumably existing since 1606) . However, since the heirs of the Stängl were not aristocratic, their Hofmark rights were withdrawn and jurisdiction was only granted to the extent that the pot extends , i.e. up to the eaves. In the same year Franz Bernhard von Prielmayr, electoral regimental councilor, truchess and Kastner zu Burghausen bought the seat of Karl Josef Stängl zu Sattelberg. He also bought the brewery with brewing rights in Simbach am Inn from Georg Haidberger . This was incorporated into the seat of Ritzing on May 4, 1723. After his death, Ritzing passed on to his son Joseph Wolfgang Lorenz von Prielmayr and his seven siblings. The five children of his late sister Digna Franziska, married von Brucklach, also took part in the fiefdom in 1737.

In 1740 Maximilian Freiherr von Berchem (from 1772 Count von Berchem) bought the fiefs of the Prielmayr family. In order to avoid a fragmentation of his property, Maximilian Franz Joseph von Berchem built a primogeniture . In Ritzing there was a 1st class patrimonial court from August 6, 1820 . In 1858, Sigmund Graf von Berchem sold the Ritzing seat and it passed into bourgeois hands.

Ritzing Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

Ritzing Castle Chapel

Ritzing Castle then and now

The original seat of Dietmarus de Richingen was probably a moated castle stable located directly west of the town center and now completely leveled. This system has been known for aerial photographs since 1982. In the process, parts of a rectangular trench with a side length of approx. 50 m were found in the lowlands south of the stream, and a narrower trench running parallel to the eastern trench could indicate a bailey to the east of the trench square. This presumed hilltop castle seems to have been quickly abandoned and relocated to the town itself.

If you look at the engraving of Ritzing Castle by Michael Wening from 1721, the castle was a simple three-storey building with a gable roof . Farm buildings can be seen behind and next to the main house. The property is surrounded by a simple picket fence.

Little has changed in this situation today. The former Hofmarkschloss is still a three-story building, the two lower floors form an unplastered tuff cuboid, the upper floor is bricked with bricks. The building is covered with a pointed gable roof. The core of the building is from the Middle Ages . To the east is a two-storey hipped roof extension, which presumably dates from the 18th century and is a successor to the previously existing farm buildings.

literature

Ilse Louis: Parish churches. The nursing courts Reichenberg and Julbach and the rule Ering-Frauenstein. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria. Issue 31). Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7696-9878-9 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ritzing - collection of images

Commons : Schlosskapelle Ritzing - Collection of images

Kirchdorf am Inn
List of monuments for Kirchdorf am Inn (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on Ritzing Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
↑ Christian Later: Local nobility seats and Hofmarkschlösser as ground monuments. Examples from the ongoing re-qualification in Lower Bavaria . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monument preservation information . No. 151 . Munich March 2012, p. 19–22 ( PDF [accessed July 14, 2015]).

48.23903 12.97053 351Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 13.9 ″ E

[1] Entry on Ritzing Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

[2] Christian Later: Local nobility seats and Hofmarkschlösser as ground monuments. Examples from the ongoing re-qualification in Lower Bavaria . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monument preservation information . No. 151 . Munich March 2012, p. 19–22 ( PDF [accessed July 14, 2015]).