[24] It was by the following charter of 1422 that King Sigmund gave the Reichsburg over to the Council:-- "We hereby order and command the Burgomaster, Council, and citizens, as they are true and faithful subjects of us and of the Empire, that now and henceforth they shall build and fortify with gates, doors, walls, moats, and other buildings, this same fortress of us and the Empire, with its accessories within and without, and look after them without let or hindrance. Further, it is our will and pleasure as King of Rome that this same fortress of us and of the Empire, shall in no way be separated or divided from the town of Nuremberg. And when we ourselves or our successors are not residing in person at N., no one else shall inhabit the said castle, and we hereby decree that no one else shall command it save only the Council of the town of N., who shall keep it faithfully for our successors and the Empire, as the Emperor Charles our father of holy memory and likewise King Ruprecht of good memory wrote and ordered to our fore-fathers in the kingdom." [25] The original entrance to these passages cannot be determined now as the principal tower which might have been the last place of refuge and the extremest point of defence no longer exists. To-day the entrance is to be found in the Tower at the most westerly corner of the Castle grounds. We shall come to the subject of the subterranean passages in the next chapter. [26] The skeletons of (probably) two twelfth-century Burggrafs were discovered here in the course of the recent excavations. We know also that a few members, male and female, of Patrician families were buried here in the sixteenth century. [27] That at Eger is octagonal. [28] We shall do well enough if we work down Winklerstrasse, and then strike across (_l_) the Haupt Markt, pass through Hans Sachs Gasse, across the Spital Platz, up the Neue Gasse, crossing Tucher Strasse and the top of Theresien Platz. After which, short turns first to the left and then to the right bring us into Tetzel Gasse. [29] The Max-, Mohren-, Stern-, and Marien-gates are all quite modern. [30] See "Military Architecture," M. Viollet-Le-Duc. [31] A bit of this crenelation may be seen to the east of the Walch Thor. [32] The Brautthüre of St. Sebald's will occur to the reader in this connection. [33] 1532. After a drawing by Jacopo de' Barbari. [34] Ring the bell for the Hausmeister who lives to the right of the door of the Great Hall. [35] Note, pp. 69, 152. [36] The fee for showing the dungeons and the secret passages is a matter for arrangement before starting. [37] _Cf._ Arabian Nights. _Twenty-Ninth Night._ [38] See Sir R. Burton's note on the Thirty-First Night, _Arabian Nights_, 1. 293.