Burgruine Lichtenegg

The Lichtenegg castle ruins are the remains of a probably high medieval aristocratic castle above the village of Lichtenegg in the municipality of Birgland in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria and is listed as an architectural monument under the file number D-3-71-116-17. The complex is part of the archaeological monument under the file number D-3-6535-0076 as a “hill settlement of the end Neolithic (cord ceramics), archaeological findings in the area of ​​the medieval Lichtenegg castle ruins”. The castle was first mentioned in a document in the Nuremberg Reichssalbüchlein more than 700 years ago, but is probably much older. It temporarily belonged to the Imperial Bailiwick of Nuremberg and changed hands frequently until it was destroyed in the 15th century.