Born in Bad Mergentheim, he was the son of the court architect Franz Joseph Roth from Cologne.
There he built a provisional wooden comedy and opera house in the castle courtyard.
[1] He created the stucco work in the Salle de gardes in the Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl in 1754.
A major work is the late Baroque Jesuitenkirche in Büren [de].
At about the same time, he rebuilt Burg Lüftelberg [de] in Meckenheim into a castle.