Built: | Medieval |
Type: | hill castle, spur castle |
Condition: | burgstall, remains of the bergfried |
Location: | Wiesenttal-Streitberg-"Wartleitenberg" |
Coordinates: | 49.8068°N 11.228°W |
Map Type: | Germany |
Code: | DE-BY |
The burgstall of Wartleiten Castle (German: Burgstall Wartleiten) is the site of a levelled, medieval hill castle situated at a height of 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.