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Burk Castle

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Burk Castle (Turmhügel Burk) is a levelled medieval motte and bailey castle in the area known as Beim Schanzbach, about 550 metres south-southwest of the church in Burk, a village in the borough of Forchheim in the county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria. Nothing has survived of the castle which was mentioned in the records in 1127.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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