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" | |
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| Coordinates | 49°48′24″N 11°13′41″E / 49.806803°N 11.228000°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
edit- 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.
External links
edit- "Wartleiten". Alle Burgen (in German).