Electoral Palace (Amberg)

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Electoral Palace Amberg
The New Castle with the "city glasses"

The electoral palace in Amberg was from 1417 by Elector Ludwig III. built by the Palatinate. Elector Friedrich I converted it into a fortress . It was given its current appearance with a high volute gable and a mighty saddle roof in 1603. Its predecessor was the Alte Veste (a building that was essentially Gothic and the first electoral court). After several major fires in the 17th century, only the south wing ("New Castle") of the once three-wing complex is still preserved.

The castle has housed the Royal Bavarian District Office and Rent Office since the 19th century , later the District Office of the Amberg district and, from 1972, the Amberg-Sulzbach district .

literature

  • Felix Mader: City of Amberg (= The art monuments of Bavaria, series 2: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume XVI). Reprint of the Munich edition 1909. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-50446-0 , pp. 115–127.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , pp. 56-59.
  • Ellen Widder: The Amberger Hof 1474. Origin and function of the oldest court order in the Electoral Palatinate. In: Ellen Widder, Mark Mersiowsky, Maria Leuker (ed.): Manipulus florum. From the Middle Ages, regional history, literature and historiography. Festschrift for Peter Johanek on his 60th birthday. Waxmann, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89325-743-8 , pp. 271-305.

Web links

Commons : Kurfürstliches Schloss (Amberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 34 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 24 ″  E