Cultural heritage D-7-7627-0166 in Ichenhausen

A small medieval water castle once stood south of Rieden, now a village on the edge of Ichenhausen in Swabia. The site lies about two hundred metres east of the parish church, beside the Kötz stream. All that remains today is a low earthwork marking where the moat once turned. The castle belonged to the lords of Roth from the fourteenth century. Their stronghold appears in records for the first time in 1361. Hans Dietrich von Roth sold the place in 1656 to Baron Isaak von Volmar. The Volmar family kept Rieden until 1791, when the estate reverted to the Bishopric of Augsburg. After secularisation in 1803 the village passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria, and the castle was pulled down in 1807. Visitors walk across the grassy mound where the central tower once rose. A shallow depression shows where the moat once circled the island. Beyond the site, the church spire and the gently rolling fields of the Kötz valley form a quiet backdrop.