Wertingen Castle

The castle's origins date back to 1348, when the Augsburg patrician Johann Langenmantel zum Sparren acquired the lordship of Wertingen as a Bavarian fief. In 1354, he had the original castle built as a two-story gable-roofed structure. The building was repeatedly damaged, most recently in 1462. Five years later, in 1467, the Langenmantels sold the lordship to Mang I. Marschalk von Pappenheim. Around 1500, the castle underwent a redesign, with the addition of two round towers and the substructure of the southern clock tower. In 1654, Adam Wolfgang Christoph von Pappenheim had a three-story extension with two corner towers, known as the New Castle, built to the east of the existing structure. When the male line of the Pappenheims died out around 1700, the fief reverted to the Electorate of Bavaria.