Alsórámóc (German: Unterrabnitz, Croatian: Donji Ramac, Gradistyei: Dolnji Ramac) is a part of the municipality of Alsórámóc-Répcefő in the province of Burgenland in Austria but it was part of Hungary until 1918.
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The building on the right bank of the Répce stream is the remains of the former Rámóc fortified manor. The ground floor building has a double-story gate tower with an early Baroque, drawbridge gate frame with the date 1719 above it, which may be the date of a rebuilding.
The first mention of the settlement of ((Alsó)Rámóc is known from 1279 as “villa dicte Rebza”. In 1398 it was called “Répcefő” (“Rapchafey”), in 1402 “Rebnich”, and in 1496 “Alsorepczefew, Felsewrepczefew”. The present name was first recorded in 1595 as ‘Also-Ramoth’.
The present manor house on the site of the past fortification was bought in 1558 by Petrinjai Horváth from Jurusics Miklós the Younger, the son of the hero of Kőszeg. Horváth sold it to Bejczy Ambrus in 1569. At the beginning of the 17th century, Bejczy Dorottya passed it to the Káldy family, and from 1627 partly to the Czirákys on the daughter’s side.
The Cziráky family claimed the manor and its estate in 1652, first acquiring the Káldy part of the estate and then buying the rest from the family. The castle was built on the site of the manor house between 1652 and 1677 by Mózes, the son of Ádám Cziráky, the Palatine judge. Cziráky Ádám was already living here in 1658, so there were already habitable parts by that time.
Cziráky László and his daughter Katalin, Mrs. Countess Esterházy Dániel shared their estate in Sopron County in Rámocz on 20 January 1701. “The inner castle with three contignatios went to Kata, the outer castle with the old palace to László, the chapel is common to both parts”, wrote the partition certificate. The present building is part of the outer castle, but the inner one no longer exists.
The Cziráky family’s part of the estate became the pledge of Festetics Pál in 1703. From 1722 it was pledged to Sigray, later to Inkey. Around 1730, it was mentioned by Bél Mátyás as a noble manor house of the Cziráky family. In 1786, Korabinszky described it as a small, old-style building, but Vályi András wrote in 1799: “RÁMOCZ. It is in Vas Vármegye, its landlord is Count Cziráky, whose illustrious building is famous”. In 1851 Fényes Elek didn’t write about the castle, but he named Prince Esterházy as its owner.
In 1910 it had 571 inhabitants, mostly German, with a significant Hungarian minority. Until the Treaty of Trianon, it was part of the Felsőpulyai district of Sopron County. In 1971, the villages of Alsórámóc, Répcefő and Répcebónya were merged into one municipality, but in 1991 Répcebónya became an independent village again.
In 2003, a village museum on early medieval life was established in Alsórámóc. In a floodplain near the pine forest above the village, Austrian archaeologists have built five houses in their original form, built of earthen fillings and sunk into the ground, modeled on the buildings found during the excavations. They contain equipment for eating and resting, tools for making leather, forging, weaving, baking bread, and cooking, weapons from the Middle Ages, and tools from prehistoric crafts.
Source: Várlexikon and Wikipedia https://varlexikon.hu/alsoramoc
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