Lisberg

Lisberg is a community in Bavaria, Germany. It is in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Lisberg, lying in the Steigerwald (forest).GeographyLisberg lies west of Bamberg.Constituent communitiesLisberg’s main and namesake centre is the biggest of its Ortsteile, although Trabelsdorf is not much smaller. The community has these centres, each given here with its own population figure: Barbarahöhe: (does not exist demographically)Lisberg: 998Neumühle: 1Trabelsdorf: 794Triefenbach: 15 The community also has 2 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Lisberg and Trabelsdorf, the same names as 2 of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).HistoryLisberg is noticeable even from far away for the Burg Lisberg. This castle had its first documentary mention in 820 in a donation document, and it is among Germany’s oldest undestroyed castles. From 1600 to 1707, the Protestant line of the Barons of Münster held Lisberg as a fief, and then until 1790 the Catholic line did so. The castle is now privately owned. Concerts are sometimes held in the castle’s courtyard.