Moschendorf Castle

Site information
Gößweinstein-Moschendorf

Coordinates	49°47′56″N 11°19′31″E / 49.798926°N 11.325266°E / 49.798926; 11.325266Coordinates: 49°47′56″N 11°19′31″E / 49.798926°N 11.325266°E / 49.798926; 11.325266
Type	hill castle, spur castle
Code	DE-BY
Height	400 m above sea level (NHN)
Condition	burgstall, a few wall remains, neck ditch
Site history
Built	recorded in 1464

Moschendorf Castle (German: Burgstall Moschendorf) is a levelled mediaeval hill castle at a height of 400 m above sea level (NHN) about 50 metres east of the village of Moschendorf, in the market municipality of Gößweinstein in the Franconian county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.

The castle was mentioned in the records in 1464 when the lords of Rabenstein and lords of Groß were named as occupants. The castle was destroyed in 1525 during the Peasants' War.

Of the former castle only a few wall remnants and a neck ditch remain.

Literature

Denis André Chevalley (revision editor). "Oberfranken". Vol. IV. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag. ISBN 3-486-52395-3.
Hellmut Kunstmann: Die Burgen der östlichen Fränkischen Schweiz. Aus der Reihe: Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Fränkische Geschichte Reihe IX: Darstellungen aus der Fränkischen Geschichte, Vol. 20. Kommissionsverlag Degener und Co., Neustadt/Aisch, 1965, pp. 179–183.

External links

"Moschendorf". Alle Burgen (in German).

Castles in the county of Forchheim

	Schlösser:	Ermreuth Gräfenberg (Steinhaus, Großhaus, Nuremberg Pflegschloss) Guttenburg Hagenbach Hallerndorf (levelled) Heroldsbach Neues Schloss (Hiltpoltstein) Hundshaupten Jägersburg Kunreuth Pretzfeld Schellenberg (levelled) Thurn Unterleinleiter Wiesenthau Wolfsberger Schloss Wüstenstein

	Castles and castle ruins:	Bärnfels Bieberbach (levelled) Dietrichstein (levelled) Dietzhof (levelled) Dörnhof (levelled) Egloffstein Forchheim Gaillenreuth Gößweinstein Gräfenberg (levelled) Hiltpoltstein (Altes Schloss) Kohlstein Moschendorf (levelled) Neideck Niederfellendorf (levelled) Obertrubach (levelled) Oberweilersbach (levelled) Regensberg Reifenberg (levelled) Reuth (levelled) Rothenbühl (levelled) Schlüsselstein (levelled) Streitburg Thuisbrunn Unterleinleiter Vestenberg (levelled) Wichsenstein (levelled) Wolfsberg Wolkenstein

	Fortresses:	Forchheim Fortress

	Motte castles (all levelled):	Burk Ebermannstadt Kersbach Niedermirsberg Rüssenbach Wöhr

	Manor houses:	Dormitz Manor (levelled) Steinhaus Manor (Dormitz) (levelled) Hammermühle Manor (levelled) Walkersbrunn Manor (levelled) Wannbach Manor

	Burgställe (levelled or unlocated castles):	Altenburg Alter Schlossberg Altes Schloss (Affalterthal) Altes Schloss (Oberzaunsbach) Altes Schloss (Drügendorf) Borschl Breitensten Burggraf Burgstein (Leutenbach Castle?) Ehrenbürg Hainburg (Rüsselbach Castle, Burg auf der Katze) Heidelberg Heiliger Bühl Castle Hetzelsdorf Hunnenberg Lehmberg Leutenbach Lindelberg Lindelburg Reisberg Retterner Kanzel Sattelmansburg (Stadtmers Bürg) Schießberg Schlossberg Castle (Heidenstein) Thüngfelderstein (Eberhardstein Castle) Tiefenstürmig Unterailsfeld Wartleiten

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