Wallerstein Castle

Wallerstein Castle is a three-wing complex with a clearly structured Neoclassical facade. It is located in the market town of Wallerstein in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries. The castle is owned by the princely family of Oettingen-Wallerstein.

In the autumn of 1803, Princess Wilhelmine zu Oettingen-Wallerstein appointed Johann Melchior Hochstatter as her building director, who was tasked with combining the Lower Residence with its four buildings into a single castle:

:Construction began in the spring of 1805 with the two buildings on the south side, the Green House and the Welsch Building. Their floor plans of different widths can still be seen today in the setback of the south front west of the staircase... However, the enfilades of rooms on the two upper floors, whose windows all face the castle courtyard and thus to the north, were certainly part of the new building concept: In a correspondingly raised counterpart on the north side of the courtyard, the rooms would have faced the sun. But when the south wing was nearing completion at the end of 1805, the Peace of Pressburg brought the end of the Old Empire, and the incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria... For a mediatized prince, however, what had been built at the residential castle in Wallerstein until then had to suffice. Thus, the expansion of the residence remained unfinished.

Attached to the castle is a court garden in the English style, which is (unfortunately) no longer accessible to the public. In this garden, which essentially goes back to a plan by Michael Anton Koch from 1826, there are still the riding school, built after the model of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, with a museum for carriage and equestrian sports, the hunting lodge, the tea house (once a greenhouse), and the Moritzschlösschen, built at the beginning of the 19th century.

Upon request, Wallerstein Castle and its originally furnished living quarters (dining room with porcelain collection, salons, bedrooms, uniform room, ballroom, etc.) can be visited and rented for private events.