Achstetten Castle

Achstetten, Germany, Germany

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Achstetten Castle is an elegant, three‑story neoclassical mansion in the village of Achstetten in Upper Swabia, southern Germany.

It stands on a gentle elevation near the parish church of St. Oswald and Agatha, surrounded by a spacious park with a small enclosure for fallow deer and approached by a driveway about 150 meters long. The present building was constructed between 1794 and 1796 for the Reuttner von Weyl family to plans by architect Franz Anton Bagnato, replacing earlier castles on the same site that had been destroyed in the 16th century and later rebuilt.

The interior features a classicist staircase, 19th‑century furnishings, an iron stove from 1798, family portraits, and a porcelain collection, and a long covered passageway once linked the castle to the nearby church. Today the castle and its estate remain in private hands, still inhabited by the Reuttner von Weyl family and used for managing the estate, with only limited or special‑occasion access for the public.