Top 19 Castles around Blaibach

Magnificent view from up there. Definitely worth a detour.

This is a fantastic castle ruin with a great view. The ruin is very impressive and has lots of information boards. There are several hiking trails to this ruin, short or long, anything is possible! In the ruin there are several comfortable places to sit and take a break. There is also a wonderful viewing point with a bench. Access is always possible and free!

The castle was the ancestral seat of the Nussbergers, the hereditary marshals of Bavaria. The hereditary marshal organized the defense of Bavaria. He was responsible for the expansion of the castles, the training of men-at-arms and the production of weapons.

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

From the 11-meter-high tower of the castle ruins, which lie at an altitude of 660 meters, you have a sweeping view of the Bavarian Forest all the way to the Arber, which rises about 30 km to the east.

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 www.burgenseite.de

Very well-preserved ruins of the former castle complex with numerous short descriptive boards. Audio guide can be scanned as a QR code at the entrance.

A castle ruin that is well worth seeing and has been excellently repaired and signposted by the Runding Castle Friends.