Imperial Castle Nuremberg - A Glimpse of World History



A visit to the Castle with the IYLC 2013 members.

Source: Adapted


The Imperial Castle Nuremberg is one of the most important imperial palaces of the Middle Ages. Between 1050 and 1571 it hosted the gatherings of the court, Diets and juridical sessions of all German emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire.

 

A Salian royal castle was build on the rock here as early the 11^th century. In the 12^th and 13^th century, Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa (1123-1190) and his successors build one of the largest and most magnificant castle complexes of the empire on the western rock. The Romanesque double chapel still dates fro this time, while the palace and other structures were converted and renewed from 1440 onwards in the Late Gothic style. The mighty bastions were first build one century later.

 

 

The Imperial Castle was only inhabited during imperial visits. The empiror’s permanent administrator lived in the Burgrave’s Castle on the eastern rock.