Burgstall Moschendorf
Burgstall Moschendorf | ||
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Creation time : | Mentioned in 1464 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Castle stable, small remains of the wall, neck ditch | |
Place: | Gößweinstein - Moschendorf | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 47 '56.1 " N , 11 ° 19' 31" E | |
Height: | 400 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Postal Moschendorf denotes a Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 400 m above sea level. NHN about 50 meters east of Moschendorf , a district of the market town of Gößweinstein in the Forchheim district in Bavaria .
The lords of Rabenstein and the lords of Groß are named as owners of the castle mentioned in 1464. The castle was destroyed in 1525 during the peasant war.
Small remains of the wall and the ditch are still preserved from the former castle complex .
literature
- 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 .
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . From the series: Publications of the Society for Franconian History Series IX: Representations from the Franconian History, Volume 20. Commission publisher Degener and Co., Neustadt / Aisch 1965, pp. 179–183.
Web links
- Entry on Moschendorf in the private database "Alle Burgen".