The castle was built in 1347 to monitor the two Ilz crossings, Dießensteiner Mühle and Furt-Rettenbach, and to monitor an important trade route between Passau and Bavaria. The border ran …
Castle story Ranfels 1144: First documented mention. 1207: The owners were the bishops of Passau, who enfeoffed the nobles von Hals with it in 1243. These conferred the rule on. …
The Neuenbuchberg castle ruins are the ruins of a spur castle at 560 m above sea level. NN on the southern slope of the Buchberg in the Buchberger Leite on …
In the heart of the Bavarian Forest, on a wooded ridge near Saldenburg, the castle of the same name rises, a silent monument to medieval architecture and regional history. Affectionately …