- Type
- Castle
- Location
- Spodnjeposavska, Slovenia
- Coordinates
- 45.9286°, 15.3858°
History
Raka Castle (German: Arch) is recorded from 1161 and named as castrum Arch in 1279. It was built no later than the second half of the 12th century by the Counts of Bogen and later passed to the Counts of Andechs and the Spanheims. From 1248 until the end of the 15th century it was held by the knights of Arch, after which Baron Georg von Scheyer bought it in 1501; in 1515 it was burned during a peasant revolt. Later owners included the Werneck barons and, from 1784 to 1825, Baron Franz Karl Haller von Hallerstein, who saved the decaying building and gave it a Neoclassical look with new gardens. After the Second World War it housed the municipal offices, and from 1948 to 1998 the Daughters of Charity.
What to see
The castle is a three-storey quadrangular manor around an arcaded courtyard, entered through a Neoclassical stone portal. It has stood empty since the nuns left in 1998 and is privately owned, so it is usually seen only from outside. It sits in the rolling vineyard country of Lower Carniola, and inside survives, among other things, a hall with a Baroque parquet floor.
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