Egloffstein Castle
| Egloffstein Castle | |
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| Egloffstein | |
Egloffstein Castle seen from the east (Mar 2012)
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| Coordinates | 49°42′09″N 11°15′27″E / 49.7026000°N 11.2574000°ECoordinates: 49°42′09″N 11°15′27″E / 49.7026000°N 11.2574000°E |
| Type | hill castle, spur castle |
| Code | DE-BY |
| Height | 443 m above sea level (NHN) |
| Site information | |
| Condition | preserved or largely preserved |
| Site history | |
| Built | c. 1150 |
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| Occupants | Freiherren (free nobles) |
Egloffstein Castle (German: Burg Egloffstein) is a former high mediaeval, aristocratic castle, that stands immediately west of the eponymous village of Egloffstein in the Upper Franconian county of Forchheim in the German state of Bavaria.
The castle may be visited for an entrance fee.
The spur castle is located within the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park at a height of 443 metres on a rocky, eastwards-pointing promontory of the Rabenstein, about 80 metres above the village in the Trubach valley in the hill region of Franconian Switzerland.
In the vicinity are also the castles of Thuisbrunn, Hundshaupten and Wolfsberg. Other castles not far from Egloffstein include the Altes Schloss on the Altschlossberg hill near Affalterthal, the ruins of Dietrichstein near Lützelsdorf and the ruins on the Zaunsbacher Berg and Thüngfelderstein as well as the former castle by Heidhof on the Schlossberg.
The earliest record of the lords of Egloffstein dates from 1180. The castle was first mentioned in 1358, when Albert II of Egloffstein and his brothers founded a chaplaincy there, but it is probably older than that. The lords of Egloffstein initially owned the castle as an allod.
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