The remains of the Castle can be visited
RuinMühlhausen - Sulzbürg
Obersulzbürg Castle
The castle ruin Obersulzbürg, also called Obersulzbürg Castle, is a castle ruin on a mountain plateau of the Sulzbürg above the district Sulzbürg of the municipality Mühlhausen in the Upper Palatinate district Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria.
The hilltop castle was built in the 13th century by the Lords of Sulzbürg, who were ministeriales of the Holy Roman Empire and later named themselves Wolfstein after Wolfstein Castle. In the 16th century, the castle was expanded into a palace, destroyed in 1634 and rebuilt. After the Wolfstein family died out, the castle served as official housing and was sold to private individuals for demolition in 1804 during the secularization.
Parts of the curtain wall, two semicircular wall towers and the moat are still preserved from the former castle complex.
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