Sights in Wittelsbacher countryside

On the castle hill in Oberwittelsbach once stood a castle after which the counts of Scheyern named themselves since 1120. The gothic church of pilgrimage was built on the site of the ancestral castle of the Wittelsbach family which was destroyed after the murder of a King in 1209. On the castle square there are remains of the fortress Walls and the Wittelsbach National Monument, a neo-gothic tower put up in 1834.

Ludwig II. “the severe” began contruction of the Wittelsbach castle in 1257. The Bavarian Duke founded the city in 1264. The old town has retained it’s rectangular “Wittelsbachian” streets. The Renaissance style castle, the baroque town hall as well as the fortification relics and three churches of pilgrimage are worth seeing.

The original gothic Church Maria Kappel was rebuilt in the 18th century. The interior was design was completed in 1756 by the stucco work of Franz Xaver Schmuzer and the frescoes of Martin Kuhn in the Rococo style. The church also houses a crypt chapel and some epitaphs of the Fuggers. The Fugger coat of arms can be seen at the chancel arch.