The Grand Ducal Palace in the old town of Luxembourg at 17 Rue Marché aux Herbes / on the Krautmarkt is the city residence of the Grand Ducal family of Luxembourg. The building complex known today as the "Grand Ducal Palace of Luxembourg" was not always a palace. The Lucilinburhuc castle of the Counts of Luxembourg stood on the Bockfelsen . Throughout history, the court of the Luxembourg dynasty with Emperor Charles IV moved from Luxembourg to Emperor Sigismund from Luxembourg to Prague. During this time, the Neue Markt, the Krautmarkt, was built in the upper town in 1408. When the House of Luxembourg died out in the male tribe in 1437, the Duchy of Luxembourg was conquered by other dynasties and ruled by governors. One of these governors, Count Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld, built himself a governor’s palace in the city in the mid-16th century, which became known as the "Court Palace of Luxembourg" in the 20th century and was renovated and converted into a foreign ministry in the 21st century. A Ducal or Grand Ducal Palace did not exist until 1890. Today’s site of the Grand Ducal Palace on the Krautmarkt was the town hall and houses of nobles and lay judges, as well as a church, the Nicklauskirche, since the 13th century, where today the paved pedestrian and parade zone runs in front of the Grand Ducal Palace and the parliament building .