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Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle

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Location: Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Stadtweiher Pond – Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle loop from Sulzbach-Rosenberg

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2. Zwinger Castle Park – Seven Springs Karst Springs loop from Rosenberg

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3. Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle – View from the Castle loop from Sulzbach

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Manu 🙋🏻‍♀️ & Zenzi 🐕

August 17, 2019

Wonderfully old walls :-D

The Sulzbacher castle was from the 8th to the 12th century an important center of power on the Nordgau and is one of the earliest medieval facilities in Bavaria.

The then lords of the Carolingian aristocracy had a series of buildings built. Including the castle chapel, which has been preserved to this day, mostly in the rising masonry of the chapel. Probably from 1003 the castle came to the Counts of Sulzbach, what larger construction measures, including an octagonal residential tower, pulled.

Already under Emperor Charles IV, the castle was largely laid out and expanded in the form in which it still exists today. The Palas, which shaped the appearance of the castle, was built around 1300.

From 1581, the castle was then Sulzbach Wittelsbacher residence and one of the largest castles of the Wittelsbacher in northern Bavaria. Augustbau closed the ensemble in the north at the beginning of the 17th century. Inside, the foundations of the Romanesque keep can be visited.

Today, the State Construction Office Amberg-Sulzbach uses the castle, city library and city. Singing and music school are located in the former palace barracks in the lower castle courtyard. Furthermore, in the castle the police inspection Sulzbach-Rosenberg, the Criminal Investigation Office Amberg-Sulzbach and a depot of the State Archives Amberg.

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Harald Schramm (Schocker)

April 14, 2019

The Sulzbacher castle was from the 8th to the 12th century an important center of power on the Nordgau and is one of the earliest medieval facilities in Bavaria.

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November 16, 2022

Nothing concrete was known about the origins of the castle and settlement until the beginning of the archaeological measures. The complex is not mentioned in any known written source from the 8th to the 13th century. The earliest mention of a castle in Sulzbach dates back to 1329. According to local legend, the castle was built in the first half of the 11th century on the site of a previous stone structure, which has repeatedly been a reason in local research history since the 16th century has given rise to speculation about the age and importance of the castle. However, it was undisputed that the ancestral seat of the Counts of Sulzbach stood on the spur of the terrace. However, the archaeological findings now show that the castle was built around 300 years before the legendary foundation.

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Location: Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle

1. Stadtweiher Pond – Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle loop from Sulzbach-Rosenberg

2. Zwinger Castle Park – Seven Springs Karst Springs loop from Rosenberg

3. Sulzbach-Rosenberg Castle – View from the Castle loop from Sulzbach

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