Wertingen

Wertingen lies in Bavarian Swabia in the Zusam valley. The lordship passed to the Augsburg patrician Langenmantel family in 1348. The older part of the castle was built in 1354, and the town's defences were expanded with towers and three gates. Wertingen was destroyed during the war of the towns in 1388 and burned again in 1462 during the Bavarian War.

The Pappenheim family held the fief from 1467 to 1700. Swedish troops attacked and burned the town in 1646 during the Thirty Years' War; an extension to the castle followed in 1654. On 8 October 1805 French forces under Jean Lannes defeated an Austrian division at Wertingen, an opening engagement of the Ulm campaign.