Rottbach Castle

Rottbach Castle
Alternative name (s):	Zötzelhofen, Einsbach
Creation time :	Mentioned in 1182
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Maisach- Zötzelhofen
Geographical location	48 ° 15 '30.4 "  N , 11 ° 15' 25.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '30.4 "  N , 11 ° 15' 25.1"  E
Height:	525  m above sea level NHN

The castle Rottbach even Zötzelhofen or Einsbach called, is a Outbound hilltop castle in spur position at 525  m above sea level. NHN immediately west of Zötzelhofen , a district of the Maisach community in the Fürstenfeldbruck district in Bavaria .

The castle, mentioned in 1182, was built by the von Einsbach lords. The lords of Eisenhofen and, around 1400, the Fürstenfeld monastery are named as other owners of the castle . After 1400 the castle was demolished. Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex. Today the Burgstall is registered as a ground monument D-1-7733-0030 "Burgstall of the late Middle Ages ('Burg Rottbach')" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 126 .

Web links

• Entry on Zötzelhofen in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Maisach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)