[2] The castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), but the Muggenthals rebuilt it in its present form.

[1] Thomas Maria Baron de Bassus became a leader of the Illuminati in Italy, a secret society founded to promote enlightenment ideas such as opposition to superstition, prejudice, and abuse of state power.

In 1787 the Bavarian police raided Sandersdorf castle and found compromising documents.

[3] Sandersdorf remained the property of the Barons de Bassus, and was partially restored in 1900 by the Munich architect Gabriel von Seidl.

[2] In 2008 the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund bought the castle and estate from the de Bassus family.