Imperial castle
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Courtyard of the imperial castle of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
An imperial castle or Reichsburg was a castle built by order of the Holy Roman Emperor, whose management was entrusted to Reichsministeriales or Burgmannen. It is not possible to identify a clear distinction between imperial castles and the fortified imperial palaces or Pfalzen, because many imperial castles were used by German kings for temporary stays. Many imperial castles were built in regions such as Swabia, Franconia, the Palatinate and the Alsace, where there were a high density of imperial estates (Reichsgüter) during the Hohenstaufen era.
List of imperial castles (Reichsburgen)[]
The imperial castle of Berwartstein, Palatinate, Germany
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Harburg Castle, once a Staufian imperial castle, Harburg, Bavaria, Germany
France[]
- Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, Orschwiller, Alsace
Germany[]
Baden-Württemberg[]
- , Markgröningen
- Stettenfels Castle, Untergruppenbach
Bavaria[]
- Nuremberg Castle, Nuremberg
- Harburg Castle, Harburg
- , Königsberg
- , Cham
- Wildenberg Castle, Kirchzell
Hesse[]
- , Sontra
- , Friedberg
- , Gelnhausen
- , Dreieichenhain
- , Wetzlar
- Münzenberg Castle, Münzenberg
Lower Saxony[]
- Harliburg, Vienenburg
North Rhine-Westphalia[]
- Berenstein Castle,
Rhineland-Palatinate[]
- Berwartstein Castle, Erlenbach bei Dahn
- Cochem Castle, Cochem
- Guttenberg Castle, Oberotterbach
- , Hammerstein
- Landeck Castle, Landau
- , Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
- Lindelbrunn Castle, Vorderweidenthal
- Meistersel Castle, Ramberg
- Ramburg, Ramberg
- Trifels Castle, Annweiler
- Wegelnburg, Schönau
- , Sargenroth
- Berenstein Castle
Saarland[]
Thuringia[]
- Kyffhausen Castle, Steinthaleben
Switzerland[]
- , Gümmenen, Canton Berne
- , Berne, Canton Berne
- Weissenau Castle, Unterseen, Canton Berne
See also[]
- The Imperial Castle in Poznań, Poland
- Palace
- Palas
- Kaiserpfalz (or Königspfalz)
Sources[]
- Horst Wolfgang Böhme, Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (Hrsg.): Wörterbuch der Burgen, Schlösser und Festungen. Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1, p. 208.
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