The hilltop castle of Uprode was built around 1320 by the Knights of Sparneck to secure their ancestral lands. The Swabian League destroyed it on July 11, 1523. With the …
A hall crossing was certainly the reason for the construction of a castle and thus the prerequisite for the development of the city Hirschberg. From the castle only remains of …
The Reitzenstein family descended from the ancient Franconian nobility. They first appeared in documents in 1318 under the name "Konrad von der Grün," to whom the family line also traces …
Issigau Castle - was first mentioned as a former castle in 1398, and belonged to the Lords of Reizenstein zu Reizenstein. The castle was attacked several times, besieged and conquered …