Burgstall Forndorf

Burgstall Forndorf
Alternative name (s):	Forndorf Castle
Creation time :	Mentioned in 1351
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Wieseth - Forndorf
Geographical location	49 ° 9 '53.2 "  N , 10 ° 30' 20"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '53.2 "  N , 10 ° 30' 20"  E

The Burgstall Forndorf is an abandoned medieval castle and later castle about 125 to 225 m northeast of the intersection in Forndorf , a current district of the Wieseth community in the Ansbach district in Bavaria .

history

The castle, mentioned in 1351, was the residence of the "noble lords of Wisent" until 1364. The castle burned down in 1565, and all documents about Wieseth were destroyed. In 1590, Margrave Georg Friedrich built a castle on the site , nothing of which has survived today.

literature

• Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0
• Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District Feuchtwangen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 21 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB  453909426 , p. 60 .

Web links

• Entry on Forndorf Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community of Wieseth at landkreis-ansbach.de