Rüssenbach Castle
49°46′20″N 11°09′33″E / 49.772167°N 11.159286°E / 49.772167; 11.159286Type lowland castle, motte castle Code DE-BY Height 310 m above sea level (NHN) Site information Condition burgstall (no above-ground ruins) Site history Built recorded 1129 Schlösser: Castles and castle ruins: Fortresses: Motte castles:
(all levelled) Manor houses: Burgställe:
(castle/hillfort sites)
Rüssenbach Castle (German: Turmhügel Rüssenbach) is a levelled water castle situated at a height of 310 m above sea level (NHN) on the northern edge of Rüssenbach, a village in the market borough of Ebermannstadt in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria. It was built as a motte castle
The Stiebar von Buttenheim family are recorded as occupants of the castle which was mentioned in 1129 and destroyed in 1525 during the Peasants' Rebellion.
Nothing has survived of the former castle.
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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has generic name (help) - Hellmut Kunstmann. Die Burgen der südwestlichen Fränkischen Schweiz, Verlag Degener & Co., 1990.
External links
- "Rüssenbach". 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