Dietzhof Castle

Dietzhof Castle
Leutenbach-
Coordinates	49°42′05″N 11°09′48″E / 49.701417°N 11.163250°E / 49.701417; 11.163250Coordinates: 49°42′05″N 11°09′48″E / 49.701417°N 11.163250°E / 49.701417; 11.163250
Type	lowland castle and settlement
Code	DE-BY
Height	Height missing, see template documentation
Site information
Condition	burgstall, remains built into new building
Site history
Built	recorded in 1433

Dietzhof Castle (German: Burg Dietzhof) was a high medieval water castle on the site of House No. 42 in the village of , in the municipality of in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.

The castle appears in the records in 1433, its owners being named as the lords of . All that is left today are two barrel vaulted rooms in the barn of the house. In the south wall there are arrow slits and to the west of them are the remains of a circular moat.

Literature[]

• Hellmut Kunstmann: Die Burgen der südwestlichen Fränkischen Schweiz. Darstellungen aus der Fränkischen Geschichte 28, Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Fränkische Geschichte Reihe IX, Insingen, 1990.

External links[]

• "Dietzhof". Alle Burgen (in German).