Guggenberg Castle

Guggenberg Castle belongs to the municipality of Klimmach. The hilltop castle is located above the Wertach valley in the Augsburg - Western Forests Nature Park and is owned by the noble Neubronner family. The building is a three-wing complex.

The three-story manor house with a steep gabled roof is late Gothic in its core and was repeatedly altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. Further alterations and new constructions took place in 1835. The terrace was built at the end of the 19th century. The park was also laid out around this time.

Guggenberg Castle was first mentioned in 1441 as a forester's house of the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg. The Augsburg patrician family von Langenmantel, who were vassals of the Bishops of Augsburg, built a stately manor house on the site. From 1520 to 1565, the quadrangular courtyard complex, as it still exists today, was built. Until the 16th century, the Augustinian Canons of St. Georg held Guggenberg as a fief. The canons spent their exile at the castle from 1537 to 1548. The celebration of Catholic Mass had already been forbidden to them by the Augsburg city council in 1534.

The Bally family operated a cotton spinning mill on the castle grounds in the 18th century. After secularization, the castle was owned by several noble families, currently the baronial family von Neubronner.

The castle and castle park are not accessible to the public.