Burgstall Lichteburg

Burgstall Lichteburg
	Burgstall Lichteburg - View of the castle, in the foreground the ditch
Alternative name (s):	Lichtenburg
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Gone
Place:	Goldkronacher Forst area free of parishes
Geographical location	50 ° 0 '9.6 " N , 11 ° 43' 1.1" E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '9.6 " N , 11 ° 43' 1.1" E
Height:	651 m above sea level NHN

The Burgstall Lichteburg , also known as Lichtenburg, is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle at 651 m above sea level. NHN in the Goldkronacher Forest , a community-free area about 2200 meters east-southeast of the church of Goldkronach in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria .

Only a shallow neck moat has survived from the castle complex. Today the Burgstall is registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a ground monument D-4-5936-0012 "Medieval ground-level residence" .

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. 78 and 87.
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 .