Griesbach

Griesbach in the Rottal became a recognised market in 1370, placing its settlement within the network of Bavarian market towns. Its castle and local administration formed a separate focus above the settlement. In 1504, during the War of the Landshut Succession, Palatine troops destroyed the town, making this dynastic conflict a major interruption in its history.

Religious institutions developed alongside its market functions. The surviving late Gothic brick church dates to around 1480. Griesbach had originally been dependent on Karpfham, then became a parish vicariate in 1634 and an independent parish in 1805. These changes gave the community a progressively more distinct ecclesiastical position. Later eighteenth-century political changes also affected its trading connections: the separation of the Innviertel from Bavaria removed an important hinterland and market for the Rottal's merchants and craftspeople. Griesbach's history consequently combined formal market privileges with vulnerability to war and changing territorial boundaries.