Wartleiten Castle

Castles in BavariaForchheim (district)Hill castlesWiesenttal

The burgstall of Wartleiten Castle (German: Burgstall Wartleiten) is the site of a levelled, medieval hill castle situated at a height of 410 m above sea level (NHN) on the Wartleitenberg, about 600 metres southeast of the church in Streitberg, a village in the market municipality of Wiesenttal in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria. No above-ground ruins of the old castle have survived apart from the remains of the bergfried or fighting tower.

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Wartleiten Castle
Hellmut-Kunstmann-Weg, Wiesenttal

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N 49.806803 °	E 11.228 °

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Hellmut-Kunstmann-Weg
91346 Wiesenttal
Bavaria, Germany
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