In the first half of 16th century Jaunpils Castle was the place where many old and weak brothers of Livonian Order settled.

In 1576 Jaunpils Castle became property of last komtur of Dobele Matthias von der Recke.

[3] From the 16th century until 1920 the castle belonged to the family of the Baltic German baron von der Recke.

One of the family members who lived there in the 18th century was the poet Elisa von der Recke.

[2] After the Latvian agrarian reforms of the 1920s, the castle complex housed a cattle-breeding experimental station.