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According to my fiance...there are no castles in Germany. So this is purely a fictional creation. :1orglaugh
Though obviosly fictional, it's gorgous. I'll have to post some of my castle pictures sometime.
Neuschwanstein's problem, at least to me, is that it looks really nice, but it just has never looked like a castle to me. I look at it and the first thing that comes to mind is, "That's a really nice looking home." (Although one that's in a defensible location.) It just doesn't have that impenetrable fortress look a lot of other castles have.
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If you want real castles, you have to go to Wales, King Edward nearly went bankrupt having building them!
Arundel castle looks quite gothic. but in a sense, it's a fairy tale castle, created in the 19th century. The central part of Arundel is pure Norman, although the keep with the small chamber was Queen Maud's home when she bid for the English throne.
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Arundel castle looks quite gothic. but in a sense, it's a fairy tale castle, created in the 19th century. The central part of Arundel is pure Norman, although the keep with the small chamber was Queen Maud's home when she bid for the English throne.
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I didn't know Roald was that close-minded.
Do you have any pictures of Thingol's Menegroth? That I've never seen pictures of.
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Dracula's castle was for sale a few years ago. If I had the cash, I would have bought it.
I'd say, when talking about important and/or famous European castles outside of Germany, those two are amongst the first ones that come to mind. :thumbsup:
Well, I'd say that's a problem of the English language.
In German, Neuschwanstein isn't a castle ("Burg"), it's a "Schloss", which implies it's (once) social/political status and it's geographical position inside a valley/town, but doesn't say anything about it's defendability. Same thing goes for " Premium Link Upgrade " (Northern Germany) for example. Or Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ).
To describe the type of building, it's characteristics and it's use, there is a whole array of words in German:
- "Burg" (castle)
- "Kastell" (castle)
- "Wasserburg" (same thing, just built on water, e.g. an island in a river)
- "Bastion" (bastion)
- "Bastei" (bastion)
- "Bollwerk" (bastion/stronghold)
- "Trutzburg"/"Trotzburg" (stronghold/bastion)
- "Schloss" (castle/chateau)
- "Wasserschloss" (same thing, just built on water, e.g. an island in a river)
- "Chateau" (castle/chateau)
- "Festung" (fortress/stronghold)
- "Feste" (fortress/stronghold)
- "Palast" (palace)
- "Wehrkirche" (a fortified church)
- "Wehrfriedhof" (a fortified graveyard)
- etc.
Some examples:
Typical examples for "Festung", "Feste", "Trutzburg" etc. are for example Ehrenbreitstein in Western Germany ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ) or Burg Pyrmont ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ) or Rheinfels ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ). Not meant to be pretty, just meant to withstand everything that comes.
A typical "Burg" is for example "Burg Eltz" ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ) in Western Germany. Or the very famous Wartburg in the heart of Germany ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ). Or the Marksburg in Midwestern Germany ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ). Or Burg Hohenzollern in Southern Germany ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ). Or Premium Link Upgrade in Hesse.
A typical "Schloss", "Chateau" or "Palast" is for example Herrenchiemsee ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ) in Southeastern Germany. Or the "Kurfürstliche Palast" ( Premium Link Upgrade ) in Western Germany. Or the Premium Link Upgrade , which is today part of the University of Hannover. Or the famous Premium Link Upgrade in Dresden, which was almost bombed into oblivion by the US in WWII.
A typical "Wehrkirche" or "Wehrfriedhof" is for example the Effeltricher Wehrkirche in Midsouthern Germany ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ). Or the Wehrfriedhof Ingelheim mit Burgkirche ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade )
Some "structures" may be called "castle" in English and are a "Burg" in German. Some may be called "castle" in English, but are actually a "Schloss". For example Premium Link Upgrade is not a "Burg", but a "Schloss". Same goes for
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The Bundesland (state) I live in has more than 100 castles/fortresses/... and it had a lot more a couple hundred years ago. Some like the Wittlicher Neuerburg or Mont Royal were razed. Others like the Grevenburg ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ), the Premium Link Upgrade or the Premium Link Upgrade are in ruins. Some were partly restored like Premium Link Upgrade or Premium Link Upgrade . The river running along here was a "conflict line" in the late middle ages, so there are castles left and right, so to speak. Like the Reichsburg Cochem ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ), the Genovevaburg ( Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade ), the Premium Link Upgrade , the Premium Link Upgrade (or Rheinstein), Premium Link Upgrade , Premium Link Upgrade or the beforementioned Burg Eltz.
Germany is very rich when it comes to castles etc. Some famous German castles aren't even in Germany anymore because the German borders are not the same as half a millenium ago (Germany was somewhat bigger then
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nice ones.
i'm partial to the english castles that being an interest of mine.
existing and ruined ones.
I like Hampton Court Palace based on its immense size and its history.
incredible architecture in and out.
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the biggest house in the world in its time it was built by Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, Lord Chancellor of England.
Always wondered how a man who started out with absolutely nothing became so rich.
His house was even bigger than his boss's HenryVIII 's Palace of Whitehall.
Ol henry would have none of that so after he destroyed Wolsey for not being able to get the pope to grant a divorce from katherine of aragon in order to marry ann bolyn he took all Wolseys wealth including Hampton Court and made it his primary residence.
