Burg Wittelsbach was a castle near Aichach

Aichach

Aichach is a town in Germany, located in the Bundesland of Bavaria and situated just northeast of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Aichach-Friedberg. The municipality of Aichach counts some 20,000 inhabitants. It isn't far from the motorway that connects Munich and Stuttgart, the A8....

 in today's Bavarian Swabia

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Swabia is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.- Geography :Swabia is located in southwest Bavaria. It was formed out of the part of the historic region of Swabia which was annexed by Bavaria in 1803. It was once formally ruled by dukes of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. During...

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The castle was first mentioned around the year 1000. In 1119, Count Otto III of Scheyern

Scheyern

Scheyern is a municipality in the district of Pfaffenhofen in Bavaria in Germany.The House of Wittelsbach derives from here....

 moved into the castle of Wittelsbach. The castle's name, "Witilinesbac", is however already mentioned as the place of origin of Otto III in a document by Henry V

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

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 dating from 1115. From 1120, the Counts of Scheyern styled themselves Counts Palatine

Count palatine

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 of Wittelsbach. The castle thus became the ancestral seat of the House of Wittelsbach.

According to local tradition, the castle was destroyed in 1209 after count Otto of Wittelsbach had murdered King

King of the Romans

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 Philip of Swabia

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 and never rebuilt. An archaelological excavation from 1978 to 1980 did not find evidence of a sudden destruction of the castle, however - from the archaeological evidence, it appears the castle's walls were used as a quarry after the castle itself was given up.
In the 15th century, a Gothic

Gothic architecture

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 church was built on the former castle site. The church, still standing today, became the nucleus of the village of Oberwittelsbach. In 1834, the Wittelsbach family erected a monument to the state of Bavaria

Bavaria

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 on the former site of their ancestral castle. In memory of the castle, parts of the district

Districts of Germany

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 Aichach-Friedberg

Aichach-Friedberg

Aichach-Friedberg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Augsburg, Donau-Ries, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Pfaffenhofen, Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck and Landsberg, as well as by the city of Augsburg....

are today called Wittelsbacher country.