Schloss Niederraunau
Schloss Niederraunau stands in Krumbach, within the Swabian district of Günzburg in Germany, beside St Maria and All Saints Church. Its three-storey form has a hipped roof.
Builders completed the castle in 1733, while its predecessor stood as a water castle. The Freyberg family held Niederraunau from 1477 until 1850.
A Peasants’ War raid plundered the castle in 1525, and the Freyberg-Eisenberg line assumed control by 1557. After their ancestral castle near Pfronten fell in 1646, Niederraunau became the family’s principal residence.
Renovations shaped the building in 1844, adding east and west risalits and half-height gables to the north and south. These changes followed demolition of the right wing and the corridor linking the castle with the church.
Inside, a spacious staircase, cross-vaulted ground-floor rooms and mirrored upper ceilings preserve architectural details. Profile cornices and a few double-leaf doors remain, while most historic furnishings have disappeared.
The cellars are thought to preserve remnants of the earlier building. A perpendicular outbuilding dates to 1694, marked by a date on its coat of arms.
The former castle garden was redesigned in 1967, and no trace remains.
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