Why didn't any of the Holy Roman Emperors attempt to build

Define grandness, OP.

There would have been many cities in the regions of the HRE that would have been better than Constantinople. They just wouldn't have been as old. Going off accounts Constantinople actually sounded like a shithole

>>1779960
Okay, say they do. Now decide where it was going to be built.

After you deal with the ensuing civil war you can try and decide again.

>>1779960
Because they weren't holy, they weren't Roman, and they weren't emperors.

Italo-German urban landscape, with many medium-sized cities, each holding their own network of companies and social institutions, is much more healthy than the urban macrocephaly typical of England and France.

Now, about your question, HRE monarchy was pretty much itinerant, thanks to its descentralized nature. The King/Emperor was always traveling to hold court or attent Diets at a different city. That being said, later Emperors would develop certain cities as imperial seats, like Charles IV with Prague and the Habsburgs with Vienna.

>Holy

>>1779995
Stop repeating this shit, it's literally a reddit-tier meme.

Voltaire was saying this about a completely different HRE than the one in the middle ages.

>>1780019
you're right. The HRE in the 18th century was even more of a joke than the one in the 13th century. I don't like people who shit on the HRE for no reason, but HREboos are even worse and should be thrown out of windows than undergo 30 years of constant war ravaging their lands.

>>1779960
to be fair, constantinople was only great because of the silk trade, the HRE didn't have anything of the same scale

They had multiple cities that rivaled Constantinople.

>>1781775
Also the fur trade.

>>1780546
>hating HREaboos
Wehraboos i can understand, but the HRE was literally the best time in German history, with maybe the exception of the era leading up to 1848

>>1780546
Still missing 300 years of HRE history
>implying Otto wasn't literally a Holy Roman Emperor