Veste Erlangen, Medieval castle in Erlangen, Germany.

Veste Erlangen was a square motte-and-bailey castle, about 30 metres on each side, west of Erlangen's old town on today's Fuchsengarten 5. Its centre held a three-storey residential tower of roughly 13 by 10 metres with cellars and vaults beneath. A water-filled ditch about 10 metres wide, fed by an arm of the Röthelheimgraben, was crossed by a drawbridge and gatehouse on the east side. Nothing is visible above ground today.

Emperor Charles IV acquired Großenerlang in 1361 and probably soon after built the Veste, first documented in 1372 as his property. It was damaged in 1449, 1461 and 1553, destroyed in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, and demolished in 1783/84 by three master masons who paid 400 gulden for its stone.

Nothing of the Veste survives above ground; the name lives on in local memory through two markers. A 5.80-metre steel pin designed by Isolde Kunath in 2002 stands near the site as part of the Denkmal Objekte project for Erlangen's 1000th anniversary, and a memorial plaque from 1855 is set on the house at Pfarrstraße 19.

Nothing of the Veste is visible today; the site lies at the property Fuchsengarten 5, just outside the old town wall west of the Altstadt. A 5.80-metre steel pin designed by Isolde Kunath in 2002 and a plaque set into the ground mark the spot, and a memorial tablet of 1855 is fixed to the house at Pfarrstraße 19 on the corner of Fuchsengarten.

Nothing of the castle is visible today; its site was only pinpointed in 1981, when construction work at Fuchsengarten 5 uncovered the shaft of a roughly 14-metre-deep well. Three layers of sandstone blocks, 1.5 metres in all, survived, along with fragments of a stove tile, a tobacco pipe and faience-imitation plate. A wooden ring from a fir felled in 1710 shows the well was built or enlarged in the castle's final inhabited phase.