Castle ruins of Niedersulzbürg

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Castle ruins of Niedersulzbürg
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 Coordinates: 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.