An imperial castle or Reichsburg was a castle built by order of the German or Holy Roman Emperor, whose management was entrusted to Reichsministeriales or Burgmannen. It is not possible to identify a clear distinction with the fortified imperial palaces or Pfalzen, because many imperial castles were used by German kings for temporary stays. A large number of 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)[]
- Berenstein Castle
- Berwartstein Castle
- Boyneburg
- Cochem Castle
- Friedberg Castle
- Guttenberg Castle
- Gümmenen Castle
- Harliburg
- Hayn Castle
- Hohkönigsburg
- Kalsmunt Castle
- Kirkel Castle
- Kyffhausen Castle
- Landeck Castle
- Reichsburg Landskron
- Landskron Castle (Oppenheim)
- Lindelbrunn Castle
- Meistersel Castle
- Münzenberg Castle
- Nuremberg Castle
- Ramburg
- Trifels Castle
- Wegelnburg
- Weissenau Castle
- Wildburg near Sargenroth
- Wildenberg Castle
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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