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.