They brought with them knowledge about the making of wires and founded an industry in Roth which exists until today.
It plays host to a yearly Jazz & Blues festival and the Datev Challenge Roth triathlon race.
The masterpiece of the central block of the four wing castle is the so-called "Prunksaal" with a decoration in Neo-Venetian-Baroque.
In 1942 Freifrau Minna von Stieber offered the castle to the town of Roth as a present.
Today a museum, a restaurant, the municipal library and the offices and meeting rooms of the town council occupy most parts of the castle.