Castle Grönenbach

The origins of the castle likely date back to around 1280, when Heinrich Ludwig von Rothenstein built the oldest part on the foundations of an earlier refuge castle, which served as the seat for the Lords of Grönenbach until 1260. In 1482, the property passed to the Pappenheim family. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle was besieged and damaged. Through inheritance, it came into the possession of the Fugger von Kirchberg-Weißenhorn in 1612/1613, who added a northeastern extension in 1690. By 1695, the castle reverted to the Princely Abbey of Kempten, which had previously held it as a fief. In the War of the Spanish Succession, Hohes Schloss was stormed by Bavarian and French troops in 1703. From 1803, it housed a Royal Bavarian district court, with its interior furnishings already sold off by then.