Burk Castle

49°42′38″N 11°02′32″E / 49.710652°N 11.042114°E / 49.710652; 11.042114Typelowland castle, motte and baileyCodeDE-BYHeightHeight missing, see template documentationTemplate:Höhe/Erro in parameter listSite informationConditionburgstall (no above-ground ruins)Site historyBuiltrecorded 1127

Burk Castle (German: Turmhügel Burk) is a levelled medieval motte and bailey castle in the area known as Beim Schanzbach, about 550 metres south-southwest of the church in Burk, a village in the borough of Forchheim in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.

Nothing has survived of the castle which was mentioned in the records in 1127.

Literature

• Denis André Chevalley (revision editor) (1986). "Oberfranken". In Michael Petzet, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [in German] (ed.). Denkmäler in Bayern : Ensembles, Baudenkmäler, archäologische Geländedenkmäler [Monuments in Bavaria: ensembles, monuments, archaeological site memorials]. Denkmäler in Bayern [de] (in German). Vol. IV (Various ed.). München: Oldenbourg. ISBN 3-486-52395-3. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

See also

• List of German motte and bailey castles

External links

• "Burk, Schanzgraben". Alle Burgen (in German).