Dpa reports the open-air concert with some 2,500 in attendance was shut down as a precaution after the explosion.
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Authorities have not found a link to terror groups.
He also told of “rising nervousness” in Germany following the spate of attacks, adding that the authorities faced a “big challenge” and needed to “regain sovereignty” over the immigration situation, with a “lot of space for improvement” over how it was being handled.
Earlier Sunday, a Syrian man killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being arrested.
A spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry said it was unclear if the blast was accidental or intentional.
The spokesman had no immediate information on the cause of the blast, which was first reported at 10:12 pm CET (2012 GMT), he said.
The minister told the DPA news agency he agreed that it was too early to say if there was any link with the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS), but added that could not to be ruled out.
Herrmann said the man had been denied entry to the Ansbach Open music festival shortly before detonating the bomb outside a restaurant called Eugens Weinstube.
Police said Monday the 16-year-old was arrested late Sunday and investigators were able to retrieve a deleted chat between him and the attacker on the messaging app WhatsApp.
Bavaria police said security at the event, held at the Reitbahn near the city’s castle, noticed a young man acting suspiciously in the area at around 9.45pm. IS said it was also responsible for the attack by 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel.
Earlier in the evening, a woman in Reutlingen was murdered by a 21-year-old Syrian refugee wielding a machete.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the July 18 axe attack in Germany.
Schoenwald said the unnamed man’s asylum application had been rejected a year ago, but he had been given temporary permission to remain in Germany.
German MP Stephan Mayer, home affairs spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, admitted there were “hints” that IS militants had infiltrated Germany in the “tremendous flood of refugees” a year ago but argued it was “completely wrong” to blame her immigration policy for the recent violent incidents. The two teens had met each other while receiving inpatient psychiatric care last summer, and the Afghan teen knew from these interactions that the attacker had expressed hatred for people and was obsessed with Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
The attack comes as Germany reels from Friday’s massacre in Munich that left nine dead and dozens injured.
Police on Monday morning raided a nearby asylum shelter where the attacker seems to have lived, according to other residents of the home.
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Bystanders thought there had been a gas explosion at a nearby restaurant in the aftermath of the blast.
