Schlüsselberg Castle

	Schlüsselberg Castle Schlüsselberg Castle () was a high medieval, aristocratic castle in the Franconian region of Germany. Its ruins lie on a hill above the ''Pulvermühle'', a southern town quarter of Waischenfeld in the Upper Franconian county of Landkreis Bayreuth, Bayreuth in Bavaria. The ''burgstall'' of the castle is freely accessible. Location The castle site is located within the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park on the Schlüsselberg, a hill also called the ''Galgenberg'' ("gallows hill"), in the valley of the Wiesent (Regnitz), Wiesent. The rocky spur on which the castle stood had the shape of a key (''Schlüssel''), so perhaps the castle was named after the local landmark. Immediately above the mill of ''Pulvermühle'' ("Powder Mill"), which used to be known as the ''Schlüsselmühle'' ("Schlüssel Mill"), can be seen the rocks and the site or ''burgstall'' of the former spur castle at a height of . The easiest way to reach the old castle is from the eastern side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hill Castle A hill castle or mountain castle is a castle built on a natural feature that stands above the surrounding terrain. It is a term derived from the German ''Höhenburg'' used in categorising castle sites by their topographical location. Hill castles are thus distinguished from lowland castles (''Niederungsburgen''). Hill castles may be further subdivided depending on their situation into the following: * Hilltop castle (''Gipfelburg''), that stands on the summit of a hill with steep drops on all sides. A special type is the rock castle or ''Felsenburg''. * Ridge castle (''Kammburg''), that is built on the crest of a ridge. * Hillside castle (''Hangburg''), that is built on the side of a hill and thus is dominated by rising ground on one side. * Spur castle (''Spornburg''), that is built on a hill spur surrounded by steep terrain on three sides and thus only needs to be defended on the one remaining side. When in the 10th and 11th centuries castles lost their pure fortress character a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Burgstall A ''burgstall'' is a German term referring to a castle of which so little is left that its appearance cannot effectively be reconstructed.''Burgstall'' in the ''Adelung'' at lexika.digitale-sammlungen.de It has no direct equivalent in English, but may be loosely translated as "castle site". Variations in the literature include ''Burgstelle'', ''Altburgstelle'', ''die Burgställe'' (plural), ''Burgstähl'' (archaic) or ''abgegangene Burg'' ("lost castle"). In German castle studies, a ''burgstall'' is a castle that has effectively been levelled, whereas a "ruin" (''Ruine'') still has recognisable remnants of the original castle above the level of the ground. Definitions The word ''burgstall'' is of medieval origin and comes from ''Burg'' = "castle" and ''Stelle'' = "pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hill Castles A hill castle or mountain castle is a castle built on a natural feature that stands above the surrounding terrain. It is a term derived from the German ''Höhenburg'' used in categorising castle sites by their topographical location. Hill castles are thus distinguished from lowland castles (''Niederungsburgen''). Hill castles may be further subdivided depending on their situation into the following: * Hilltop castle (''Gipfelburg''), that stands on the summit of a hill with steep drops on all sides. A special type is the rock castle or ''Felsenburg''. * Ridge castle (''Kammburg''), that is built on the crest of a ridge. * Hillside castle (''Hangburg''), that is built on the side of a hill and thus is dominated by rising ground on one side. * Spur castle (''Spornburg''), that is built on a hill spur surrounded by steep terrain on three sides and thus only needs to be defended on the one remaining side. When in the 10th and 11th centuries castles lost their pure fortress characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rabeneck Castle Rabeneck Castle () is a former high mediaeval aristocratic castle which stands high above the valley of the Wiesent (Regnitz), Wiesent in the Upper Franconian district of Landkreis Bayreuth, Bayreuth in the German state of Bavaria. The castle is open to the public; however, there is an entrance fee. Location The hill castle is located within the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park on a rocky hill spur at a height of about 415 metres above the valley of the Wiesent (Regnitz), River Wiesent in the region of Franconian Switzerland, about three kilometres south-southwest of Waischenfeld. Nearby are the ruins of Waischenfeld Castle and, to the east, Rabenstein Castle (Upper Franconia), Rabenstein Castle, which was probably the family seat of the Rabenecks, who belonged to the family of ministeriales the House of Rabenstein. Further up the Wiesent valley on the gallows hill (''Galgenberg'') above the powder mill stood Schlüsselberg Castle, the ancestral castle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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