Wertingen Town Center

Former district town, so "everything" there that a (small) town needs: schools, indoor and outdoor pools, doctors, hospital, shops, restaurants, cafes, ice cream parlors, ...

Nice downtown with small shops

Wertingen first appeared in a document in 1122. Between 1200 and 1250 Wertingen was provided with a wall, moat and palisade ring and raised to the market. Bavarian Duke The older part of today's castle was built in 1354 and then the city fortifications with towers and three city gates, the Thürheimer Tor in the north, the Dillinger Tor in the west and the Augsburger Tor in the southeast, expanded.
During the Bavarian War, the city was conquered and burned down by Ludwig the Rich in 1462. In 1646 the Swedes attacked the city in the Thirty Years' War, pillaged it and decimated the population.
On October 8, 1805, the VI defeated. French army corps under General Jean Lannes the Austrian division under Field Marshal Franz Xaver von Auffenberg in the battle of Wertingen. This was the prelude to Napoleon's victory in the battle of Ulm, which at the beginning of December led to the total defeat of the Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. As a reminder, the name Wertingen is mentioned at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.