Kaisersgrund

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With Kaisergrund one probably never built castle is in the country Bruch at Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate referred.

It apparently only consisted of a piece of paper, namely a document from Emperor Charles IV dated May 7, 1359, which allowed Count Palatine Ruprecht I “ to build a fortress on the stone in the quarry two miles from Lautern To be called Kaisersgrund, and to own such as imperial fiefs. ". In 1959 Christmann was able to identify the location with the rock called "Luther pulpit" near the Moordamm mill.

literature

  • Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 3: IN . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 3-927754-54-4 , pp. 101-102.
  • Ernst Christmann: The names of the castles in the Palatinate . In: The settlement names of the Palatinate , Part II, 1. Speyer 1964.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 15.5 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 24.8"  E