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Runding Castle Ruins

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Location: Runding, Cham, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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Tibor

October 17, 2020

Great ruin, it's a shame he's dead, definitely worth a look!

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Staufer

July 8, 2024

Runding Castle Ruins

Otto von Runding is mentioned in 1118 as a ministerial of the Margraves of Cham. Various lines then shared the castle, and Rudiger, who lived on the nearby Haidstein, Adalbert and Adelheid are mentioned several times in documents. From 1300 onwards, however, the family ran into financial difficulties and had to sell more and more parts of the estate, including to the Chamerauers, Zengers and Fraunbergers. While the impoverished Rundingers ultimately had to move to Cham, Heinrich V. Nothafft of Wernberg gradually managed to acquire all parts from 1413 onwards.
Heinrich Nothafft was an important man in the governments of the Bavarian dukes and achieved considerable wealth. It was probably also he who had Runding expanded into a large, late medieval castle complex. In the 16th century, the Nothaffts ran into financial difficulties due to guarantees they had provided and had to sell to Ludwig von Eyb.
In 1618, Hans Albrecht Nothafft managed to regain possession of the castle through marriage. The castle was plundered and burned down twice by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War (1633, 1641). In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Nothaffts built Runding into a large castle with stables, utility rooms, and apartments for servants.

The Nothafft family got into more and more debts, and by the time of the forced sale in 1829, the family had accumulated a mountain of debt of 300,000 guilders. The new owners ordered the castle to be demolished. It continued to decay until 1992, and only since then have extensive security measures been taken.

All that is left of the high medieval castle today is the stump of a residential tower or former keep in the middle on a rock. This tower was the core of the original castle, probably surrounded by a ring wall. Later, the central rock tower was used to build the baroque chapel and the tower was demolished.
The two round towers made of large rubble stones, which formed a former gate open to the southeast, may date from the early 14th century.
The medieval buildings that are visible today are primarily the palace and the large tower in the northwest, the lower floor of which was also used as a prison. The complex is designed with elaborate defenses in mind: it is surrounded by a completely circular enclosure with corner towers, a deep circular moat and a rampart.

Source: Excerpts from burgenseite.de

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Naturfreak

September 13, 2024

Very informative and beautiful castle ruins. The walk is worth it.

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Location: Runding, Cham, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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