The Ruprecht Building, dating from the earlier period of construction - according to tradition from Ruprecht III, the German King (1398-1410) - underwent considerable alterations under Ludwig V (1508-1544) which were completed under his successor and brother Friedrich II (1544-1556). This is indicated by a coat-of-arms and inscription tablet from the year 1545 on the otherwise unadorned residence. Worthy of note is the tablet with the expressive imperial eagle holding the coat-of-arms of the Palatinate and Bavaria in its claws. The ground floor contained two halls accessible from a centeral passage. Their cross-vaulting rests on a central column. The southern hall is restored; it contains the splendid fire-place from the time of Friedrich II, originally decorating one of the rooms in the upper storey, and an important work of the early German Renaissance. The upper storyes, formerly halftimbered, then rebuilt in stone, correspond to the groundplan of the ground-floor arrangement. The keystone above the main enterance, a much-discussed stone carving, still belonging to the Gothic period, shows two angels holding a pair of compasses in the midst of the rosary.
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