Castle ruins of Niedersulzbürg
Castle ruins of Niedersulzbürg | |
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Alternative name (s): | Sulzbuerg, Untersulzbuerg |
Creation time : | around 1300 |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
Conservation status: | small remains of the wall, ditch |
Standing position : | Nobles |
Place: | Mühlhausen- Sulzbuerg |
Geographical location | 49 ° 10 '57.2 " N , 11 ° 24' 48.4" E |
Height: | 560 m above sea level NN |
The castle ruins of Niedersulzbürg , also called Sulzbürg or Untersulzbürg , are the remnants of a hilltop castle on a mountain plateau of the "Sulzbürg" ("Schlossberg") east of the Obersulzbürg castle ruins above the Sulzbürg district of the municipality of Mühlhausen in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .
The castle, which was probably built around 1300, came in allodial the Hohenfelser and Gundelfinger 1403 by purchasing the Lords of Wolfenstein , went in 1740 to the Electorate of Bavaria and was canceled privately owned by the 1804th
From the former castle complex , which was separated from a bailey by one of its two moats , only small remains of walls and moats have survived.
literature
- Ursula Pfistermeister: Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 96.