To be privately owned
CastleRöthenbach
Röthenbach Castle
Röthenbach Castle forms the historic center of the Röthenbach district, which belongs to the city of Arzberg.
According to the oldest Nothafft'schen feudal book, the Lords of Schirnding already held the entire village of Röthenbach with the tithe from the Nothafts on Thierstein as a fief around 1360. In 1389, a walled seat of the Lords of Schirnding in Röthenbach is mentioned for the first time. As the building inscription above the portal to the stair tower with the Schirnding-Waldenfels marital coat of arms reveals, the Renaissance building was erected between 1559 and 1561 on behalf of Jobst Heinrich von Schirnding and his wife Dorothea von Waldenfels. The last Schirndinger at Röthenbach, Georg Friedrich Christian, died in 1819. Through the marriage of his sister Charlotte to Ernst Freiherr von Waldenfels, Röthenbach came into the possession of the von Waldenfels family in 1827, who still inhabit it.
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The castle, formerly surrounded by a moat, has a hook-shaped floor plan. The two two-story castle wings each have a bay window resting on corbels at the corners of the upper floor facing the courtyard. Their stepped gables and those on the narrow sides of the castle are additions from the Romantic period and were probably added soon after the middle of the 19th century. In the angle of the two castle wings rises the round stair tower with the aforementioned coat of arms-adorned building inscription. The castle is privately owned by the von Waldenfels family and cannot be visited, as the castle is inhabited by them.
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