Castle ruins can be visited
CastleGemünden am Main
Slorburg Castle
The Slorburg castle site is a vanished hill castle (slope castle) at 210 m above sea level in the forest 915 meters northeast of the Scherenburg castle ruins on the same hillside above the town of Gemünden am Main in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria. It is unclear whether the castle was built by the Counts of Rieneck around 1170. Later, the castle was probably owned by the Würzburg bishop Hermann I von Lobdeburg, who wanted to demonstrate his power here. In 1243, the castle was destroyed and razed during a feud with the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg. The castle site, which is now an archaeological monument, still shows some heavily moss-covered larger rock foundations and little masonry. According to Karl Richter, the name "Slorburg" certainly goes back to a misread "Slozburg" (Schlossberg).
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