Dörzbach (East Franconian: Därzbach) is a municipality in the Jagst river valley in the Hohenlohe district of Baden-Württemberg, in south central Germany.
It is also the site of 3 historic castles, the Chapel of St. Wendel (in a limestone hillside), and a stone bridge built in 1808–1810 for King Frederick I of Württemberg.
After the sale of Dörzbach to the Lords of Eyb in 1601, they replaced the Eybschen mussel shells (with the joint turned-up scallops shown), and the wheel in the upper half of the shield.
Once a strong (robber barons) castle, it was rebuilt in 1621 by Erhard von Muggenthal, as a stately mansion in Renaissance style.
As the only partial town, Hohebach has no baron castle, but a real king's bridge: the massive four-arched stone bridge was built from 1808 to 1810 by Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer at the behest of King Frederick I of Württemberg, on the fact of his Napoleonic newly acquired northern region Hohenlohe, and strategically wanted better transport links connecting to the Swabian heartland.
A high sandstone pillar in the middle of the bridge shows the Roman year MDCCCX (1810) and the royal monogram FR with coat of arms.
Between Dörzbach and Hohebach is situated, against a limestone-wall hillside (see photo), the chapel St. Wendel zum Stein with Mesnerhaus, in the same nature reserve.
Since 1986, there has been a commemorative plaque in the Hohebach section on the building of the former synagogue, the church of Jewish citizens, which was demolished during the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Sturmabteilung (SA) stormtroopers.
The execution of the 1888 planned steam tram line from Züttlingen over to Bad Mergentheim Dörzbach was modified to a narrow-gauge railway.
The opposite point of the railway was transferred from the larger Züttlingen Möckmühl, where a connection existed at the Main Line Heilbronn-Lauda.
The Hag at the southwest of the local part of Wendischenhof Hohebach operates the ultralight club Dörzbach eV, a microlight airfield.