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14-519: It is situated in the historic Rupertiwinkel region, on the left bank of the river Salzach , which forms the border with the municipality of Ostermiething in the Austrian state of Salzburg . The two communes are linked by a bridge. Tittmoning is located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of the Salzburg city centre. The settlement of Titamanninga was first mentioned about 790 AD, then

28-434: A child between 11 July 1929 and 5 December 1932. Later, he became a cardinal and in 2005, was elected Pope Benedict XVI . A festival takes place here every year at the end of May, with theatrical presentations, medieval tournaments and jousting . Speculum 62, No. 3 (Jul., 1987): 575–611. Rupertiwinkel The Rupertiwinkel is a small historic region on the southeastern border of Bavaria , Germany . Part of

42-728: A hunting lodge according to plans designed by Santino Solari . By the 17th century, the castle had finally lost its character of a fortress and became the summer residence of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. Upon the Congress of Vienna , the Rupertiwinkel region finally fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria and Tittimoning Castle, damaged by French troops during the Napoleonic Wars , passed under state-ownership. In

56-519: A possession of St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg . After the Archbishops of Salzburg had achieved immediate status in the late 13th century, Tittmoning Castle was built as a border fortress against the incursions by the Dukes of Bavaria . The episcopal administrator of the castle and its environs was called burgrave ( Burggraf ), as was Ulrich von Wispeck in 1282. Tittmoning was occupied by the forces of

70-634: The Archbishopric of Salzburg until the early 19th century, it is named after the first Salzburg bishop Saint Rupert (c.660–710), apostle to the Duchy of Bavaria . The area is located in the Alpine Foreland of Upper Bavaria , about 20 km (12 mi) north of Salzburg in the German - Austrian border region. Centered on the town of Laufen and Waginger See , it stretches between

84-717: The Chiemgau Alps and the Saalach River is part of Berchtesgadener Land . Since the early Middle Ages, the area was part of the Salzburggau within the Bavarian stem duchy . Already about 700 Duke Theodo of Bavaria granted the village of Piding to Bishop Rupert. Due to the fertile soils west of the Salzach River, the archbishops in the following centuries aspired to enlarge their possessions. In 1125

98-537: The Höglwörth Abbey was founded, a Canons Regular monastery near Anger . In the course of the elevation of Salzburg to a Prince-archbishopric , the episcopal territory was acknowledged by Duke Louis II of Bavaria in 1275. From the early 14th century, the Rupertiwinkel formed the western part of the Salzburg Flachgau region. The archbishops made Palace Staufeneck an episcopal residence; in

112-558: The Vienna Congress , Austria and Bavaria finally agreed in 1816 to make the course of the Salzach the border between their lands. Though the population of the Rupertiwinkel stresses its social and cultural distinctiveness (especially in folk music and Tracht costumes), the region became a constituent part of the Bavarian state. When after World War II the Salzburg state administration demanded an affiliation with Austria,

126-676: The Alz are Altenmarkt an der Alz , Trostberg , Garching an der Alz and Burgkirchen an der Alz . The Alz is divided into the Obere Alz (upper Alz) and the Untere Alz (lower Alz). The section from the Chiemsee down to Altenmarkt is called the Obere Alz . From Altenmarkt to the mouth in Marktl, it is called the Untere Alz . The Traun , a 29 km (18 mi) river flowing past

140-416: The German king Louis the Bavarian during his conflict with the papacy in 1324; nevertheless, he restored it to the Salzburg archbishops three years later. Temporarily given in pawn to Bavaria , the unlucky Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau had to cede the castle to the Bavarian duke Maximilian I in 1611; it was repurchased by his successor Archbishop Mark Sittich von Hohenems and rebuilt as

154-643: The claims were strongly rejected. 47°56′12″N 12°55′57″E  /  47.9367°N 12.9325°E  / 47.9367; 12.9325 Alz The Alz ( German: [alt͡s] ) is a river in Bavaria , southern Germany , the only discharge of the Chiemsee . Its origin is on the northern shore near Seebruck . It is a right tributary of the Inn , into which it flows in Marktl . Other towns on

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168-402: The early years of World War II , the castle was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag VII-D . British and American citizens were also interned there (see Ilag VII Laufen and Tittmoning ). They put on plays and sketches, including a performance of Hamlet by Shakespeare . Photos of these productions and paintings of the castle may be found here . Joseph Ratzinger lived here as

182-715: The left shore of the Salzach River in the east and the Bavarian Chiemgau cultural landscape in the west. The northern Rupertiwinkel up to Mt. Rampelsberg and the Alz River at Trostberg is administrated within the Traunstein District, the northernmost municipality of Tyrlaching within the district of Altötting . The southern half down to the Hochstaufen and Teisenberg peaks of

196-474: The north, Tittmoning Castle was rebuilt as a border fortress. When the prince-archbishopric was secularised in 1803, the last Prince-Archbishop Count Hieronymus von Colloredo was replaced by Ferdinand III of Habsburg-Lorraine , former Grand Duke of Tuscany , who went on to rule as Elector of Salzburg until 1806. With Salzburg, the territory passed to the Austrian Empire thereafter. In the wake of

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