Friesener Warte, Mountain summit in Bavaria, Germany

Friesener Warte is a 561.7-metre hill of the Franconian Jura on the boundary of Hirschaid and Buttenheim in Bavaria's Bamberg district. Its wooded west and south flanks drop toward the Regnitz valley and the Main-Danube Canal, while north and east it merges into the Jura plateau. On its southern spurs, the Buchenberg (529.6 m) and the Warte (521.8 m), lies the Friesener Warte glider airfield.

The name Warte refers to a medieval watch post, and a small castle, the Burgstall Friesener Warte, was built inside a late La Tène period rampart on the southern spur called Warte (521.8 m). Other prehistoric and medieval earthworks lie on the surrounding spurs, including the Turmhügel Buchenberg and the Abschnittsbefestigung Knock.

The hill gave its name to the nearby village of Friesen, and its slopes carry the Segelfluggelände Friesener Warte, a glider airfield with flight operations since 1927 run by the LSV Friesener Warte. The airfield lies on the southern spurs, the Buchenberg (529.6 m) and the Warte (521.8 m).

The hill lies in the Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz – Frankenjura on the western edge of the Franconian Switzerland, about 800 metres north-east of the Friesen district of Hirschaid. Its wooded west and south flanks drop toward the Regnitz valley and the Main-Danube Canal, while the north and east connect to the Alb plateau. The gliding site on the southern spurs, the Buchenberg and the Warte, has seen flight operations since 1927, run by LSV Friesener Warte.

On the southern spurs of the hill lie two prehistoric and medieval earthworks: the late La Tène rampart on the Warte (521.8 m) and the medieval motte of Turmhügel Buchenberg on the Buchenberg (529.6 m). Between them, on the Warte, a medieval castle site was built into the older rampart.