Burk Castle
49°42′38″N 11°02′32″E / 49.710652°N 11.042114°E / 49.710652; 11.042114Type lowland castle, motte and bailey Code DE-BY Height Height missing, see template documentationTemplate:Höhe/Erro in parameter list Site information Condition burgstall (no above-ground ruins) Site history Built recorded 1127 Schlösser: Castles and castle ruins: Fortresses: Motte castles:
(all levelled) Manor houses: Burgställe:
(castle/hillfort sites)
Burk Castle (German: Turmhügel Burk) is a levelled medieval motte and bailey castle in the area known as Beim Schanzbach, about 550 metres south-southwest of the church in Burk, a village in the borough of Forchheim in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.
Nothing has survived of the castle which was mentioned in the records in 1127.
Literature
- Denis André Chevalley (revision editor) (1986). "Oberfranken". In Michael Petzet, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [in German] (ed.). Denkmäler in Bayern : Ensembles, Baudenkmäler, archäologische Geländedenkmäler [Monuments in Bavaria: ensembles, monuments, archaeological site memorials]. Denkmäler in Bayern [de] (in German). Vol. IV (Various ed.). München: Oldenbourg. ISBN 3-486-52395-3.
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See also
- List of German motte and bailey castles
External links
- "Burk, Schanzgraben". Alle Burgen (in German).
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Castles in the county of Forchheim
- Ermreuth
- Gräfenberg (Steinhaus, Großhaus, Nuremberg Pflegschloss)
- Guttenburg
- Hagenbach
- Hallerndorf (levelled)
- Heroldsbach
- Neues Schloss (Hiltpoltstein)
- Hundshaupten
- Jägersburg
- Kunreuth
- Pretzfeld
- Schellenberg (levelled)
- Thurn
- Unterleinleiter
- Wiesenthau
- Wolfsberger Schloss
- Wüstenstein
- Bärnfels
- Bieberbach (levelled)
- Dietrichstein (levelled)
- Dietzhof (levelled)
- Dörnhof (levelled)
- Egloffstein
- Forchheim
- Gaillenreuth
- Gößweinstein
- Gräfenberg (levelled)
- Hiltpoltstein (Altes Schloss)
- Kohlstein
- Moschendorf (levelled)
- Neideck
- Niederfellendorf (levelled)
- Obertrubach (levelled)
- Oberweilersbach (levelled)
- Regensberg
- Reifenberg (levelled)
- Reuth (levelled)
- Rothenbühl (levelled)
- Schlüsselstein (levelled)
- Streitburg
- Thuisbrunn
- Unterleinleiter
- Vestenberg (levelled)
- Wichsenstein (levelled)
- Wolfsberg
- Wolkenstein
(all levelled)
- Burk
- Ebermannstadt
- Kersbach
- Niedermirsberg
- Rüssenbach
- Wöhr
- Dormitz (levelled)
- Steinhaus (levelled)
- Hammermühle (levelled)
- Walkersbrunn (levelled)
- Wannbach
(castle/hillfort sites)
- Altenburg
- Alter Schlossberg
- Altes Schloss (Affalterthal)
- Altes Schloss (Oberzaunsbach)
- Altes Schloss (Drügendorf)
- Borschl
- Breitensten
- Burggraf
- Burgstein (Leutenbach Castle?)
- Ehrenbürg
- Hainburg (Rüsselbach Castle, Burg auf der Katze)
- Heidelberg
- Heiliger Bühl
- Hetzelsdorf
- Hunnenberg
- Lehmberg
- Leutenbach
- Lindelberg
- Lindelburg
- Reisberg
- Retterner Kanzel
- Sattelmannsburg (Stadtmers Bürg)
- Schießberg
- Schlossberg Castle (Heidenstein)
- Thüngfelderstein (Eberhardstein Castle)
- Tiefenstürmig
- Unterailsfeld
- Wartleiten