Eggenfelden

Eggenfelden lies in Bavaria's Rott valley. Its earliest record concerns an estate called Etinvelt, given to Baumburg Abbey by Countess Adelheid of Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the twelfth century. The Wittelsbachs acquired authority over the district in 1259 and developed the settlement into a fortified market, governed largely by its own councils. After 1440 it became the seat of a local court. Outside the market stood a leper house dedicated to St Lazarus, recorded from 1393.