A place of history(s)
Rossatz is not only historic with its Renaissance castle on the main square, where the painted sundial in the courtyard is dated 1600. The municipal office with its 500-year-old core was originally less official: it served as a tavern, and a black kitchen and cross-vaulted rooms have been preserved to this day. The core of the Jörgerhof (house number 26) is just as old. House number 7, whose origins date back to modern times (16th/17th century), was once a manorial tavern. The former market judge's house (no. 54) and the former shipmaster's house (no. 63) have an equally long history.
After all, Rossatz has been a center of winegrowing since the early Middle Ages, and later also a base for Danube shipping. Today, the market town has one more distinction: as the largest apricot-growing community in Austria!
Would you have thought it?
With its favorable location on a bank terrace of the Dürnsteiner Donauschlinge, Rossatz was already settled by the Celts and Romans. The "seven graves", a series of 18 burial mounds from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, bear witness to this.
