Wertingen Castle

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Round towers of the castle

Wertingen Castle is a double castle complex with two or three-story saddle roof buildings, surrounded by a deep moat walled on both sides. It is located on the northwestern edge of the old town of Wertingen in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia .

history

In 1348 the Augsburg patrician Johann Langenmantel zum Sparren acquired the Wertingen estate as a Bavarian fief. In 1354 the new master had the old castle built as a two-storey saddle roof structure. Various attacks repeatedly damaged the building, most recently in 1462. In 1467 the Langenmantels sold the Wertingen estate to Mang I. Marschalk von Pappenheim . A fundamental change in the castle took place around 1500. Around this time, two round towers were added as well as the substructure of the free-standing southern clock tower.

Adam Wolfgang Christoph von Pappenheim had a three-storey extension with two corner towers, the so-called New Castle , built to the east of the castle in 1654 . When the male line of the von Pappenheim family died out around 1700, the rulership issued as a fief fell back to the Electorate of Bavaria. For a short time, until 1714, it was owned by the Lobkowitz princes . Then the rule fell back to the feudal lords. Subsequently, a separate nursing court was set up in the castle, from which the Wertingen District Court emerged from 1803 to 1806 . The rent office was also housed in the castle. When the judiciary and administration were separated in 1862, the regional court and the district office were housed as pure judicial authorities in the double castle.

Today the castle (including the castle wall), which was extensively renovated in 2015, is owned by the city of Wertingen. It is the seat of the Wertingen administrative association and houses the local history museum.

  • Wertingen Castle, south front

  • Wertingen Castle, Eastern Front

  • North side of the castle

literature

  • District and Stadtsparkasse Dillingen (ed.): Castles in the district . Dillingen 2003, pp. 48-50.
  • Winfried Sponsel: Castles, palaces and residences in Bavarian Swabia. Between Reis and Allgäu, between Iller and Lech, Augsburg 2006, pp. 56–57.

Web links

Commons : Wertingen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 46.9 ″  E