Wartleiten Castle
The burgstall of Wartleiten Castle (German: Burgstall Wartleiten) is the site of a levelled, medieval hill castle situated at a height of 410 m above sea level (NHN) on the Wartleitenberg, about 600 metres southeast of the church in Streitberg, a village in the market municipality of Wiesenttal in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.
Wartleiten Castle | |
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Wiesenttal-Streitberg-"Wartleitenberg" | |
Coordinates | 49°48′24″N 11°13′41″E |
Type | hill castle, spur castle |
Code | DE-BY |
Height | 410 m above sea level (NHN) |
Site information | |
Condition | burgstall, remains of the bergfried |
Site history | |
Built | Medieval |
No above-ground ruins of the old castle have survived apart from the remains of the bergfried or fighting tower.
Literature
- Hellmut Kunstmann: Die Burgen der südwestlichen Fränkischen Schweiz. Aus der Reihe: Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Fränkische Geschichte Reihe IX: Darstellungen aus der Fränkischen Geschichte, Vol. 28. Kommissionsverlag Degener und Co., Neustadt/Aisch, 1990, pp. 35–36.
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