Frankenberg Castle (Upper Franconia)

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Frankenberg Castle
Creation time : around 1220
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Speicherersdorf - Frankenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 50 '25 "  N , 11 ° 44' 3.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '25 "  N , 11 ° 44' 3.6"  E
Frankenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Frankenberg Castle

The Burg Frankenberg are the remains of a castle in Frankenberg (house no. 12 and 13), in the municipality of storage village in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1220 by ministerials von Frankenberg, mentioned in 1329 and destroyed in 1461/62 and in the Thirty Years War . Reconstruction took place in 1665. The gentlemen von Birkensee are named as other owners.

Remnants of the circular wall ( remnants of humpback cubes ) from the former castle complex are integrated in the south and west outside of a farmhouse and in the south side of a residential building.

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Web links

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