Schloss Wellenburg
Schloss Wellenburg rises on a wooded ridge above the Wertach valley in Augsburg, with a silhouette shaped by centuries of rebuilding. Its earliest documented mention dates to the twelfth century.
Matthäus Lang built a pleasure palace here between 1507 and 1513, after Augsburg patrician families had held the property. Emperor Charles V attended festivities and tournaments here in 1530. Jakob III Fugger bought the estate in 1595, then commissioned Elias Holl to build a new gatehouse. Prince Leopold Fugger von Babenhausen reshaped the main wing in neo-Gothic style and added an east wing in 1857 and 1858. The Fugger-Babenhausen line still owns the property.
St George’s Chapel preserves a life-sized late fifteenth-century sculpture and a fourteenth-century crucifix. A wooden relief from about 1520 shows Christ carrying the cross. From Göggingen, an avenue planted in 1840 leads towards the site with about 350 linden trees across roughly two kilometres. The castle is closed to public visits and listed as a significant architectural monument in Bavaria.
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