Portrait of the city: Stadt Roth

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Portrait of the city

The district City of Roth is located in the Franconian Lake District. Go and inform yourself about the life in the city. Experience its wealth of culture and dive into its history with its numerous sights. It is the exceptional quality of life, its excellent infrastructure, its wide schedule of events and a big variety of leisure time activities that are the main features of this district city in the heart of the Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg.

History

In the northern part of the new Franconian Lake District lies the District City of Roth. The city is the administrative center, a shopping city, a school city, an important business location und popular municipality with a wide range of cultural activities. Along its rivers Roth, Aurach and Rednitz, which intersect today’s city area, people were sporadically settling there in pre- and early history.It was then in the High Middle Ages that the first village settlement took place, which was the nucleus of the city of Roth then.

In the year 1060, when the place Roth was mentioned in documents for the first time, when Bishop Gundekar of Eichstätt consecrated a church at “Rote”.

The market place came into being in the 12th century as part of a scheduled planning of a market. Ever since the 14th century Roth has been a town.

Beginning in the year 1535, the margraves, one branch of the Hohenzollern, e building Castle Ratibor in the southwestern corner of the town, which was serving as a hunting castle and simultaneously as a seat of the “Oberamt” of the Margrave Administration, too. With the abdication of the last margrave, the principality fell to the Prussian administration.

In 1806, the new Kingdom of Bavaria annexed it. Industrialization in Roth started even before 1800 with the sale of the castle to the factory owner Stieber. Stieber produced Leoni ware, i.e. thin wires turned into gold and silverplated threads and their products. Due to the railway access in 1849, this traditional industry started flourishing. A series of similar, small firms or related industries (Christmas tree decorations, foils, cables) were founded. Some of those firms are producing still today. For some time, Roth had the title of “the most industrial small town of Bavaria”.

You can see the most important sights on the Historical Tour (PDF-Datei) on foot.