Description of the attraction
The castle (Kaiserburg) was built on a rock around 1050 by Henry III. Gradually, the castle became a hereditary fiefdom. In 1138-1140 it was completed by Emperor Konrad, and it became an imperial castle. In 1050-1571 all the emperors of Germany visited here. Most of the sessions of the Diet were held here.
The castle can be accessed through the Festner gate from the north or Himmelspforte from the city side. At the entrance, you can immediately see the courtyard and the palace, then the imperial chapel in the Romanesque style on two floors: the second floor for the emperor and the courtiers, and the first for the servants. Nearby there is a well, about 50 meters deep, dug in the 12th century.
From the imperial palace, the passage leads to the oldest part of the fortress, to the castle of the burgraves. The Hohenzollerns received Burggrafenburg in the 12th century. He was the cause of much strife between the city and the burggraves. After a fire in 1480, it was sold by Frederick IV of the Hohenzollern to the city of Nuremberg. From the castle remained the Walburgis chapel, the pentagonal Fünfäkiger tower and the Lugisland watch tower, built in 1377.
