Moritz Castle

The Moritzschlösschen is a three-winged complex built in the Neoclassical style. It stands on the western edge of the Hofgarten of Wallerstein Castle in the market town of Wallerstein/Donau-Ries district.

Government President Johann Anton von Beli di Pino, who was in the service of the princely family of Oettingen-Wallerstein, had a representative residence built for himself in 1803, namely the central building of the present-day Schlösschen. The building plot and timber were provided to the builder free of charge, and in addition to the stones from the then demolished wall of the disused cemetery around the parish church, further building material for this house also came from the old castle.

Just two years later, the house passed into the possession of the widowed Princess Wilhelmine zu Oettingen-Wallerstein. She had two side wings added to the main building of the Schlösschen in 1809 and 1810. The Princess herself moved into the building with her daughters in 1812.

From 1871 to 1910, the Schlösschen was owned by Prince Moritz zu Oettingen-Wallerstein:

To this day, the Schlösschen is called the Moritzschlösschen in the princely administration as well as by the common people, and the associated garden complex is called Moritzpark, although Prince Moritz never inhabited the Schlösschen for an extended period. He even rented it out several times, and one of these tenants, the Wallerstein general practitioner Dr. Engelbert Bayr, established a Kneipp hydrotherapy institution there in 1892.