Cadolzburg

Cadolzburg is a municipality within the Middle Franconia district of Furth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located 11 km west of Furth. Its name derives from its imperative fortress, first being noted in the year 1157. The region became first noted in 1157 when the reeve of Kadolzburg, Helmericus de Kadoldesburc, agreed on a territorial alternate between the dioceses of Wurzburg the Heilsbronn Abbey. So the call derives from Burg des Kadold which means Kadold's citadel. If the citadels have been constructed by means of Duke Kadold, who within the year 793 founded the Herrieden Abbey, it might be a early medieval citadel from the eighth century. More likely, but, appears that it was erected by using the allodium of the Abenbergers.

The earliest erected components surviving until today were constructed round 1250 under the rule of thumb of the Hohenzollern, Conrad I. The Burgraves of Nuremberg and his son Fredrick III, as they took residence there. In the year 1397 Fredrick VI. Become given all of the land underneath the mountains along with the house of Cadolzburg, but simply two decades later he become proficient the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the identify Elector of Brandenburg, his dynasty might afterward become Emperors of Germany.