View of Wertheim Castle

From the Tauber Bridge you have a very nice view of the castle and town hall.

Wertheim Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1183 and was "extended from the upper castle to a spacious castle complex in several construction periods until it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. The keep (around 1200) and the palace from the second third of the 13th century are still standing from the upper castle. Another residential building adjoins the Palas, in which the remains of an older complex have been preserved."[1] The city was a "planned foundation at the foot of the castle [...] The construction of the city fortifications must have started around 1200 be; it finally enclosed the castle and town with a ring of walls.

Wertheim Castle is one of the oldest castle ruins in Baden Württemberg, it was built on a narrow rock tongue. 1132 The Counts of Wertheim name themselves for the first time after a castle Wertheim. Middle of the 16th year. the dynasty of Wertheim dies out.