Cathedral chapter
"Reccisstadt" had its first documentary mention in the mid 8th century. Retzstadt was, as part of the Princely Electorate ("Hochstift") of Würzburg (Cathedral chapter) in Bavaria’s favour secularized and passed in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, with which it passed in 1814 to Bavaria.