Burg Brauneck, Medieval castle in Creglingen, Germany.

Burg Brauneck is a medieval complex with heavy stone walls arranged around a courtyard, dominated by a sturdy keep from the 13th century. The grounds still display remnants of a chapel, sections of the perimeter walls, and the characteristic shield wall that once protected the fortification.

Konrad von Hohenlohe founded the castle around 1230 as the seat of the Hohenlohe-Brauneck line, which died out around 1390. In 1448 Count Michael von Hardeck sold it to Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach. During the Peasants' War it was overrun, plundered and burned, with damage estimated at 768 guilders; it was partly rebuilt but lost its fortified character. From 1699 it belonged to the Ströbel family.

The castle reflects how noble families displayed their power through monumental stone structures and shaped life in the surrounding region. Its walls today remind visitors of the importance such fortifications held for local communities and medieval settlement patterns.

The castle is privately owned by the Ströbel family, who have held it since 1699, and it is run as a farm; the grounds cannot be visited. The ruins stand on a 330.4 m high spur above the steep drop of the Steinach, near the Bavarian border northwest of Niedersteinach. Views of the shield wall, keep and gate are from the surrounding area only.

The keep is built of Buckelquader, bossed ashlar blocks typical of the decades around 1200, and the Romanesque castle gate and the portal of the former two-storey chapel also survive. Brauneck is regarded as a rare example of castle-building art of that period in Franconia.