Wasserschloss Erkenbrechtshausen, Water castle in Crailsheim, Germany.

Wasserschloss Erkenbrechtshausen is a rectangular water castle on the left slope of the Rotbach valley in Crailsheim. The Rotbach is dammed into a pond of about a quarter hectare, and the L 1012 road passes its north facade about 200 meters after the junction in the hamlet. The castle was rebuilt in rectangular form in the mid-16th century and remodeled around 1760 and 1780.

The castle was first mentioned in 1278 as property of the Crailsheim nobility and suffered major destruction during the German Peasants' War. These early events shaped its long history in the Baden-Württemberg region.

The castle's name comes from the hamlet of Erkenbrechtshausen opposite it, and the building is first recorded in a 1278 document of the Schwäbisch Hall Johanniter hospital. A local legend tells that the robber knight Eppelein von Gailingen tried to rob the castle lord Fritz Gaymann von Crailsheim and, after the failed raid, escaped by leaping with his horse into the Jagst near the Beierlesstein.

The castle stands on the left slope of the Rotbach valley, opposite the hamlet of Erkenbrechtshausen, about 200 metres after the L 1012 branches off in the hamlet; the road passes its north facade. The Rotbach is dammed into a pond of about a quarter of a hectare. The site is privately owned, so it is seen from the road and nearby paths.

A pond covering roughly a quarter-hectare was created by damming the Rotbach stream and separates the castle from the neighboring settlement. This water feature makes the location a rare example of its architectural type.