En un regard
Le château en bref
Rotenstein Castle, also known as Ober-Rothenstein, was a lowland castle near Hausen, a district of the town of Rottweil, where the old road from Rottweil to Villingen crossed the Eschach. It faced Wildenstein Castle on the opposite bank, and the two strongholds together controlled this crossing. The castle is first mentioned in 1308, when it presumably belonged to Counts Rudolf and Albrecht of Hohenberg. It then passed for a long period to the Bletz von Rotenstein family. In the eighteenth century, the Imperial Cistercian Abbey of Rottenmünster acquired it. Dismantling of the buildings began in 1919, so that only a few sections of wall have survived on the site. The neighbouring farm of Oberrotenstein preserves the name of the place.