Bühl Castle (Emtmannsberg)

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Buhl Castle
Creation time : around 1379
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains
Place: Emtmannsberg - Bühl
Geographical location 49 ° 55 '12.6 "  N , 11 ° 38' 15"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '12.6 "  N , 11 ° 38' 15"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NHN
Bühl Castle (Bavaria)
Buhl Castle

The castle Buhl is an Outbound Höhenburg 370  m above sea level. NHN in the district of Schamelsberg near Bühl (Bühl 1), a district of the municipality Emtmannsberg in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1379 by the Lords of Vannau. The gentlemen von Varell are named as other owners . In the course of the Thirty Years' War , the castle, of which only small remains today, was destroyed.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 100 and 112.
  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .

Web links

  • Entry on Bühl in the private database "Alle Burgen".