Burk Castle

Burk Castle
Forchheim-Burk-Flur Beim Schanzbach
Coordinates	49°42′38″N 11°02′32″E
Type	lowland castle, motte and bailey
Code	DE-BY
Height	Height missing, see template documentationTemplate:Höhe/Erro in parameter list
Site information
Condition	burgstall (no above-ground ruins)
Site history
Built	recorded 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 (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).