Burgstall Oberweißbach

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Burgstall Oberweißbach
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Selb - Oberweißbach
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '51.8 "  N , 12 ° 5' 25.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '51.8 "  N , 12 ° 5' 25.9"  E
Height: 557  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Oberweißbach (Bavaria)
Burgstall Oberweißbach

The Postal Oberweißbach is a Outbound castle about 350 meters southeast of the town center of Oberweißbach , a district of Selb in the district of Wunsiedel in Bavaria . The castle was built on the Weißenhöhe in the 14th century and destroyed in 1412.

Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex. In the center of the village is the remainder of a tower hill castle under the name Turmhügel Oberweißbach I and on the west side the remainder of a tower hill castle under the name Turmhügel Oberweißbach II .

literature

  • Denis Andre Chevalley and Hans Wolfram Lübbecke: Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume IV . Upper Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland . Depictions from Franconian history 28. Insingen 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.selb-oberweissenbach.de/Historisches/Historisches.html About Oberweißbach local history