Thread 214114078

Let's have a proper castle thread!
Preferably post castles from your country that you find interesting. And maybe write some additional info text about them.

I'll start with the Burg Hohenzollern - the ancestral castle of the Hohenzollern dynasty from which the German Emperors of the 19th and early 20th centuries hailed. Of course the contemporary appearance obviously isn't medieval - the castle got destroyed in the middle of the 18th century and was rebuilt as a palace from 1850 to 1867.

Second is Burg Kriebstein. Located on top of a spur, it is situated in an imposing location. The oldest part is the central tower, which dates to the end of the 14th century. The rest of the castle largely dates to the middle and end part of the 15th century.

Burg Altena is situated on a spur too but this time the structure is far longer. During the 17th and 18th centuries this castle fell into ruin as the ruling family moved to a different castle. Thus much of the castle today is also a reconstruction.

I visited Burg Altena not too long ago too. Which was the last castle you've visited?

>>214114078 (OP)
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>>214114742
Nice
Here is one I like

They look like they were built in the last 100 years

>>214114078 (OP)
This castle, Burg Drachenfels, is near my former alma mater. Sadly in ruin, it was very influential for the romantic movement and was an early tourist hot spot - Lord Byron even wrote a poem about it (next to other german poets)
>>214114781
Nice
I like those short but thick towers.
>>214114922
Which mighty war lord calls this his domicile?

>>214115068
mcmansions, america :(
mcmansions, europe :O

>>214115122
neat!
>>214115068
picrel is from 1067

>>214115122
Here a reconstruction of Burg Drachenfels. It suffered much destruction during the 16th century and especially the 30 Years War - so much so that in 1634 the owner of the castle had it slighted entirely as it was too much of a hassle to defend it properly.

I like the tiles

>>214115122
europoor castles don't even have garage doors, what a shame!

The Marksburg is one of the few castles in Germany that never got destroyed. Thus the lower part of the central tower, one of the oldest parts of the castle, dates to the second quarter of the 13th century. And then it got continously expanded - the most modern parts are 18th century bastions.
>>214115068
I was transparant about the fact that two of the examples I've posted were 19th century reconstructions.

Something of interest, a guy postman made this by himself

>"Postman Cheval was haunted by dreams of fairy-tale palaces. The newspapers of the time, illustrated magazines, the birth of photography, and the first postcards he distributed during his rounds all provided material that fueled Postman Cheval's overflowing imagination.

>After 10,000 days, 93,000 hours, and 33 years of hard work, his palace was completed.
His work was classified as a historic monument in 1969 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, as the only naïve architecture in the world."

>>214115337
>it has evolved
kek i wish i could see it on jewgle earth

>>214115491
People said it was shit because the guy who made it was an uneducated postman. That's pretty sad.
Now it's famous though.

>>214115461
i forgot the name of this guy, but if i remember he has two more btothers that never got destroyed. i have many burg and chateau pictures on my pc.

>>214114742
Les Tours de Merle

not really a castle, it was a castrum with a coseigneurie

>>214115725
that's a palace not a castle, and the germanoid structure is kino

>>214115725
bonjour, roofscapes are kino

>>214115829
They look much better.

The Imperial (left ensemble) and Burgraviate (right ensemble; with the prominent roof) Castles in Nürnberg are also very nice. The former was a castle owned by the emperor of the HRE and the latter belonged the Burgraves of Nürnberg, who were also from the Hohenzollern family.
While it suffered much destruction in WW2 it got reconstructed soon after the war ended. Interestingly from already from 1935 to 1940 the Nazis removed 19th century additions to those castles and reinstated much of the medieval and early modern architecture.
>>214115491
Very cool! Those eclectic fantasy structures really capture attention - even more so when a single guy built them over the course of his life. Similar to that spanish cathedral largely built by one guy.
>>214115689
Isn't castrum just the latin term for castle. And what is a coseigneurie? Google doesn't give me an answer.

>>214116079
A better view of the imperial castle.

Haut Koenigbourg
old castle in Aslace that was destroyed, abandoned, then rebuilt by Wilhelm II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a propaganda stunt to claim Alsace was German
it's supposed to look the same as it was in the 15th century

An impression from the Imperial Castle as I've visited it last year as well.

>>214114922
kek

And here a view of the Burgraviate Caste in Nürnberg.

>>214115687
That one is Burg Eltz. This one is really interesting as it is the entire castles is jointly owned by three branches of the Eltz family, who all have their own quarters within said castle. Pic rel is the floor plan and every capitalised letter represents the parts of the castle owned by one family branch - the exception being A, as this was the keep which was commonly owned.Thus the distinct towers emerged as each family added structures to accommodate their needs.
And yes, it also survived the passage of time relatively unscathed.

Peles Castle, the summer residence of the romanian kings

>>214116079
Castrum is not really a castle, more like a whole place that includes a fortified building (that could be a small castle), a village, some knights' houses...

a co-seigneurie is a lordship over a domain that is shared by several lords

basically, les Tours de Merle (Merle's Towers) were several towers that were homes of several lords who had a shared lordship over the place.
The guys were more important that we could think, as they were family with several popes.

It was supposed to look like pic related.

>>214114078 (OP)
Man I wish I was a german noble living in one of these back in the day…

I’d literally do anything for that. Well, almost anything.

There are some castles here in the Palatine forest

Dvorac Trakošćan. Many owners since it was first built in the 13th century.

>>214116615
Visigoths built this. Where are the blonde spaniards now?

>>214116446
Another interesting fact about Burg Eltz is Burg Trutzeltz (circled in red). Trutzeltz was specifically built to counter Burg Eltz during a feud the Eltz family had with the Archbishop of Trier. Turtzeltz was built quickly and mainly housed some trebuchets which bombarded Burg Eltz - after the Eltz family surrendered and swore their loyalty to the archbishop Burg Trutzelt was abandoned as it has served its purpose. It soon fell into disrepair and due to the low standard of construction quickly became a ruin.
>>214115725
Idgi
What germanoid structures?

veliki tabor must be my fave

its got a nice little legend tied to it and also it hosts numerous occasions for locals to the region

>>214116667
Visigoths build dozens of small churches all around Castilla because most of them lived in very isolated rural areas.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Pedro_de_la_Nave

Chateau de Fougères
some famous French youtuber often uses it in its video, so it became quite famous
well, it was already one of the biggest castle of its time and was a key place in the 100 years war

We have Mesa Verde National Park. Does that count? Abandoned by Natives 800 years ago.

Hohenwerfen

>>214116192
>it's supposed to look the same as it was in the 15th century
Wilhelm II. was really invested in accurate reconstructions so by the standards of the late 19th century, it probably was considered an accurate reconstruction.
He also wanted to reconstruct his ancestral castles, the aforementioned Burg Hohenzollern, to its proper medieval appearance but it would have been too expansive to first demolish the newly built palace and then to rebuilt it as an near-medieval castle.
>>214116519
>Castrum is not really a castle, more like a whole place that includes a fortified building
I mean, in my understanding of castle, castles also include civilian utility buildings.
>basically, les Tours de Merle (Merle's Towers) were several towers that were homes of several lords who had a shared lordship over the place.
Ah like Burg Eltz. The german term for such an arrangement is Ganerbengemeinschaft.

>>214116811
Early (very, like 7th to 9th cent) croatian churches look similar but still distinct. Maybe we were in fact goths but ostrogoths, naturally.

>>214116996
Imagine living here, then. Honestly not sure if I’d prefer to be a teutonic lord in the alps or a visigothic lord somewhere in the spanish desert.

>>214116990
Mesa verde= Green table. YOu can see in the picture why.

>>214117050
Well, the goths were there for 80-100 years before going west.

>>214116446
burg lissingen and bürresheim are nearby and speaking of royal houses the liechtenstein house owns a castle in austria that went throughout a lot when the turks laid siege in vienna - but they live in the vaduz castle.

>>214116527
It looks romanesque when it comes to the building style - am I right?
>>214116577
Which castle is that?
>>214116762
That's a really cute castle! How does the legend go?
>>214116990
I'll allow it. But only if you go to the next native owned casino and spend 60% of your monthly paycheck on gambling and firewater.

>>214117164
I'm good on gambling, but I'll enjoy their frybread tacos for $7 as my form of reparations. This is Montezuma Castle in Arizona.

>>214117164
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1daba_Castle
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_S%C3%A1daba
Yes, it was built between 1100-1200s.

>>214116490
I like timber framed upper floors.

Castle Loevestein with its defensive works

>>214117080
Is this a narco-mansion? A cartel chateau? A demesne of drugs?

An American fortification for goats.

>>214117271
The massive distinction between the stone-walled lower floors and the wooden upper floors makes me believe that at one point German people were light-hearted people who had some ability to bear with and even celebrate inconsistencies in everyday life, but at one point, something sucked the light-heartedness and chill out of them, leaving behind only rule-following worker bees.

>>214117478
We have better than that. Boldt Castle in on an island in upstate New York.

Guédelon
it's 20 years old, some guys are building it using medieval building technics as a project for experimental archeology
it's funded by tourist visiting it
you can find many video about it on youtube

>>214117569
Have you been there? They're pretty friendly, they just don't smile for no reason which was the only "off-putting" thing about them. Plenty of them were joking with me or would approach me and make conversation when I visited recently. I'm talking about actual white Germans, too, I should add.

Hochosterwitz. it's defensive measures consists of 14 gatehouses curled around the rock

>>214117680
Interesting, I've seen clips of it I think. Cool idea, hope more people try this. This is a similarly aged castle, 18 years old, but I'm pretty sure this was just built as a tourism gimmick for a vineyard.

>>214117569
it's a 17th century addition from back when the old castle was owned by a monastery.

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>>214116996
it eems suisse and austria have many impressive burg and chateau.

>>214117164
legend says the noble who lived there killed his wife and secretly married a woman he was in love with. he was put in a dungeon and she was drowned and her remains buried in the castle walls.

>>214117755
Swissanon, what would you recommend to someone spending a day in Geneva?

>>214117755
it belongs to some farmer family who live there and there is also a smol resturant.

>>214117752
there's another project like this in Germany, where some guys are trying to build a medieval monastery according to the plans left by some medieval monks

>>214117680
theres a bong doc about this one, cool stuff

>>214117781
i'd definitely recommend visiting Chateau de Chillon

>>214114078 (OP)
I visited this castle when backpacking in germany, I liked it.

Not a real castle, it's a monastery, but still

Mexico has no real castles, just fortresses and mansions. The building pictured here is a fortress originally known as "El Fuerte del Marqués de Montesclaros" (The Fort of the Marquis of Montesclaros), but is nowadays only known as "El Fuerte" (The Fort), and is located in the eponymous municipality of El Fuerte, in the Western Mexican state of Sinaloa. It was originally built in the 16th century to protect settlers from the natives, and is nowadays just a tourist attraction.

>>214117391
Money laundering maison

Burg Linn began in the 11th century as a tower house and was expanded over the centuries. Most of the existing structure dates to the 13th and 14th centuries but well into the 17th century this castle was being expanded (like extensive earthworks that apparently were capable of resisting cannons). But during the War of the Spanish Succession it got destroyed and an unlucky fire caused by lighting left the castle in ruin. Only after WW2 was it reconstructed.
>>214117255
The spirits of the lands smile upon you, pale face. No wendigos will haunt your lands.
>>214117569
With a timber framed construction it was far easier and cheaper to built additional stories.

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>>214115725
I just fucking love france aesthetics. This literal me:
Place :)
Place france :O

>>214117892
>Chateau de Chillon
Def going there! Thanks

>>214117164
Berwartstein

>>214118042
Agreed

>>214117757
The power of love.
>>214117813
Really? Do you know the name of this project?
>>214118003
I like early modern forts as well so do post more.

>>214116490
Ive there when I backpacked in romania, I crossed the mountain from this village to the bran village and saw both castles. I liked this one more than bran castle.

>>214117271
the original architects were german, as was the king who commissioned it. Also interesting snippet from the building phase:
>Italians were masons, Romanians were building terraces, the Gypsies were coolies. Albanians and Greeks worked in stone, Germans and Hungarians were carpenters. Turks were burning brick. Engineers were Polish and the stone carvers were Czech. The Frenchmen were drawing, the Englishmen were measuring, and so was then when you could see hundreds of national costumes and fourteen languages in which they spoke, sang, cursed and quarreled in all dialects and tones, a joyful mix of men, horses, cart oxen and domestic buffaloes.

For me it's Reichsburg Cochem.

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>>214118042
You should visit frens

this one is pretty unique too

>>214118132
Campus Galli
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Galli

they took the idea from Guédelon, actually

they're using this plan
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Galler_Klosterplan

>>214118042
not as touching as italy but looks amazing. speaking of which, 0 italian flags and castles here.

>>214118163
yeah there's no contest, Peles was designed and lived in by royalty. Any bear encounters? A foreigner biker got bitten by a bear today in the southern carpathians lmao

Schwerin

>>214118132
The best surviving example of an Italian-style bastion fort in Mexico is the Fuerte de San Diego in Acapulco, which dates back to the 17th century, and was frequently used to defend the port city against pirate raids.

>>214118015
at night

Burg Wildenstein has a really cool location. The structure dates back to the 1550s and has survived largely unchanged. The picture doesn't really show but the the main castle is situated on its own free standing spur - the only entrance way is the bridge.
>>214118177
Heh, what a circus :D
>>214118203
Based. I got really drunk there a long time ago.
>>214118331
Thx!
>>214118373
That's practically a textbook example of a star fort.

>>214118361
glad it got in that unesco list, i was accompanying the process since i dont know when

i like this, theres a beautiful painting of it in dresden. sehr schon

some more italian

>>214115687
>>214117727
I think ill backpack again in germany and austria for these
>>214118339
in italy I want to go to tuscany, venice and rome/vatican
>>214118236
Yea absolutely will revisit france, Im going to loire valley next time
>>214118350
>Any bear encounters
Not on this mountain but on another one in the northwest, dont recall the name, heard bear while I was inside the tent.

On this one I went full retard and pushed on till nightfall and there was tons of cold wind and heard tons of frenzied dogs and so I climbed down a cliff 5-7 meter and stayed there for the night while covering myself with sleeping bag and unpitched tent. Literal was dragging myself from exhaustion to the cabin in the morning lol.

>>214118843
>dont recall the name
Ah yes I remember that the mountain trail starts in a place called gura lalei. I remember this because there was a big gypsy encampenpent when I got arrived there lol.

>>214118720
i thought it was Eltz for a second

>>214114078 (OP)
We almost only have ruins.
This one got reconstructed. so it is not really real but at least you can visit it now and there is a nice view down

>>214118929
mount rodnei, thats the one

>>214119004
looks great, here a good song for the thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBLxfPQaAo

>>214115068
European castles are fake and gay and most of them were built 150 - 300 years ago. Virtually all "medieval" castles and structures in continental Europe have been "restored", remodeled and modernized.
The British isles have a lot of original medieval castles, but continental European castles are a meme, especially French and German castles.

Tavastia

>>214119004
Im going to this one, I think ill go to austrian castle first, then this one, then to loire valley all in one go.

Olavinlinna

Turku

This one got fucked up from Soviet bombs. Also the oldest surviving castle in Finland, I think?

do colonial forts count?

Contributing with the least famous south. This is from my home town Bari. Built by Frederick II. It’s been used mostly as a fortress. Back in the day it used to be overhanging over the sea.

>>214119526
usually these restorations consist of adding critical things like a roof, and they respect the original work to make it as close as possible to what it must have looked like in the middle ages. all structures need some maintenance, otherwise they decay beyond ruins.

Imperial castle in Nuremberg
It is very close to the city center and survived the war mostly unharmed.

>>214118236
I've already visited twice, I love everything about France. Language, food, architecture, art, nature, public works. The people are so cynical though, if I ever get drunk with a Frenchman he can't wait to shit on the French tax system and half the time they tell me how much they wish they were American. Still, people are pretty fun/friendly on average.

absolute kino

>>214119304
Many castles fell into ruin due to getting destroyed. So that's only natural.
>>214119526
The brits have some really good early medieval castles - but many of them are in a ruined state as well. They simply weren't reconstructed or modernized, as the english nobility was able to built new and detached houses for themselves. So those castles were left to their own devices.

I like seeing unbreable castles. The ones you know could take any kind of siege.

>>214119526
>The British isles have a lot of original medieval castles
It's astonishing just how many were slighted at the end of the Civil War, in order to stop the royalist nobles regrouping. That's why most castles in England are ruins today.
Also, I know that a lot of castles in Scotland and Ireland date to the 16th century and are thus not truly mediaeval, but rather 'early modern'

>>214120166
*Impregnable

>>214120214
I thought he meant 'unbreachable'

>>214120204
Still compared to the continent you have a ton since the UK only rarely had actual war happen on its soil and never had castrophic one.

Dolwyddelan Castle, begun by Llywelyn the Great, the King of Gwynedd

>>214120245
Thats the word i was looking for

>>214120166
Well any castle can be taken in theory. It is just a matter of ressources being thrown at the problem.
And while theoretically not a castle Festung Königstein was never taken. It was never besieged in the first place as it would be a really daunting task, as it is just a fortified plateau.

Steinvikholm
Supposedly the first mention of Akvavit spirit in a letter from the arch-bishop who lived there. It is mentioned in a letter to the Danish-Norwegian king. Personal union with denmark at the time in 1531.

>nogit Watn som kallis aqua vite och hielper samme watn for alle haande kranckdom som ith menneske kandt haffue indvortes. Jeg ville gierne sendt Eders Naade mere deraf, men naa staaer ikke Urthene her at bekomm.
Roughly translated to
>Some drink/water which is called Aqua Vite and it helps against all ailments that can strike aany person. I would like to send Your Hignes some from there, ...
I can't translate the last passage

Carnarvon Castle, built after Edward I's conquest of Wales by the master mason James of Saint George. The bands of expensive stonework are thought to be a deliberate reference to Roman architecture, and the walls of Constantinople.

We have like three castles here, that's it

for ME it is St. Michael's Mount castle

>>214114078 (OP)
Ehrenberg Castle, situated in Tyrol on a hill, it originally was built in the mid/late 1200s, and later was part of a fortification to fight off alemanic and bavarian invasions up until the 1700s. The Austrian Emperor actually gave asylum to Russian Emperor Peter the Great´s son, Grand Duke Alexei here. He moved him here from Vienna after the austrian emperor feared Alexei might be assassinated by agents elsewhere after he angered his father

>>214115337
you know this technically counts as real castle
>fortification
>also has someone living in it

>>214120710
old sketch to see it with the fortifications

i lost a neo-cities site listings all castles in wales, shame on me - here's a wiki page, i guess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_Wales

>>214120724
Mont St Michel's little brother? Edward the Confessor gave the land to the monks there in the 1050s

>>214120483
Something like this looks impossible to take over >>214118754 and they also could have access to fishing so they would not starve.

>>214120739
Liechtenstein Castle, where the Princely family of Liechtenstein used to have its seat as austrian nobility, built around 1100 and was destroyed by the ottomans, later rebuilt again

>>214114078 (OP)
>Scholars usually consider a castle to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble.
technically, we have the ruins of an actual castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcia_d%27Ávila_Tower_House
https://fgd.org.br/castelo

Who would win
Worlds most modern cruiser, or one stony boy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ79i11JSnU

Nobody posted Chambord yet ?

>>214120915
Ain't a frog like you

Chateau Gaillard, Richard Lionheart royal fortress in France, supposedly the apex of middle-age castles.

>>214120845
Castle Forchtenstein / Fraknó vára
Built in the 1300s, it was later in the 1600s owned by the House of Esterhazy, a very influential austro-hungarian noble house

Lamothe-Chandeniers

>>214120994
It was supposed to look like that at full strength.
It only took 2 years to build, I guess it's easier to build fast when you're the king and you can throw money at it. Yet it still cost 5 whole years of revenue of the Duchy of Normandie.

The French army still took it. Legends say the soldier passed through the latrines to invade it, but the reality is they passed through the windows of a chapel that was retardedly added to the building by John Lackland.

>>214121000
Schattenburg, built around 1200 by Count Hugo I Montfort near the swiss border, it was sieges several times by swiss forces who lost several times, until in 1405 it was partially destroyed after defending the castle with 38 men, it was later restored and damaged again by King Sigismund in 1415, it was sold to the Habsburgs who continued to employ the Montfort family as vassals and castellans

>dude this rich people shit is from my country
>half of it is fake shit build in the 19th century
lmao
you are a faggot OP

Passy-les-Tours

Grasshopper hill castle

>>214120099
No one likes taxes, but still, it seems the people you talked to didn't know shit about the US. A better place to be a company or a CEO, a worst place to just be people.

thanks for the thread op, this board was supposed to be all about this, but its worthless unfortunately.
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>>214120994
impressive, what a wonder it once was.

>>214122612
oh wow blow it out your ass, shitskin

>>214122422
Yeah, I mean the guy I was talking to was kind of retarded. He was shitfaced outside of a club, just wanted a free cigarette off him. He kept dropping his phone while trying to call his friends who ditched him and wouldn't pick up. Got a sob story about how it was "bullshit" he lost his license for driving while high with cocaine in his car. Said the healthcare system was shit because they didn't fix his broken arm fast enough after he was drunk driving and crashed his motorcycle. Seemed like a danger to society pêh.

>>214122749
Lmao some idiot finance cunt, figures.

Hmeljnik Castle, in Slovenia. Built in the 12th century. The outer wall was added to help defend against the Ottomans. Supposedly it was never captured. Badly damaged in WW2 by the South African Air Force flying Beaufighters, burned by the partisans and then finally blown up by Yugoslav government in the 50s.

>>214124277
There were some restoration attempts in the 90s, but it is beyond saving.

>>214124277
>>214124399
theres something charming about its ruined state, its humble and still proud, really nice.

This is what's left of the castle in my city, currently being excavated. Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here for years but it got levelled by the parliamentarians after the civil war. They built an ugly shopping centre on top of it in the 60s but knocked it down a few years ago. You used to be able to go underground and see some of it.
They're planning to rebuild the castle gates after they're done with the dig.

Arundel Castle down souf. Very heavily 'restored' but nice to visit.

>>214126076
Alnwick Castle (you don't pronounce the L) up norf. As seen in Harry Potter.

>>214126128
Leeds Castle which isn't in Leeds its in Kent. This is mostly quite new but the original castle was from Saxon times.

star forts are way cooler

Warwick castle in midul

>>214119526
I've found different countries treat them differently. A lot in the UK and Western Europe is a reconstruction sort of Castle (or just as close to the original as can be) while in Eastern Europe it's sort of like a LARP castle which shares the same area but nothing else, they don't even try to reconstruct either. Prague Castle really sticks in my mind.

We have ex-castles. There's Gozo's Citadel which if not mistaken started out as a Medieval castle...

>>214128981
...and Fort St.Angelo which also used to be a Medieval castle (Castrum Maris).

>>214127753
Continentals word it differently too which I think is the main source of confusion. Burg or chateau are often translated as 'castle', but we wouldn't say that, those would be palaces or stately homes to us

Blarney Castle in Ireland

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>>214119315
never visited Rodnei, I know it's one of our taller ones. Maybe you should check out Via Transilvanica if you ever come back, it doesn't take you climbing over the main heights but it wanders around a lot, including mountain areas
https://www.viatransilvanica.com/en/map/

Great to see that the tread is still up!
Here the first castle I've ever visited as a child: Schloss Burg (which literally translates to Palace Castle). Originally referred to as "New Castle on a/the Mountain" (novi montis castrum) it datest to the middle of the 12th century. It was of great importance to the region, as from here the Berg family rose to power and eventually rivaled the influence of the Archbishops of Cologne (with 4 archbishops even hailing from said family). In the end, the male lineage of the Berg family died out and via marriages the county became part of a larger patchwork duchy.
Like many other castles this one got destroyed during the 17th century (mainly the 30 Years War) and then was neglected in the following centuries. In the late 1880s reconstruction efforts began in in 1899 Emperor Wilhelm II. bankrolled the project. The oldest part is the 12th century romanesque chapel of the castle and much of the defensive structures date to the 15th and 16th century.
>>214126285
Feel free to post them.
>>214127753
Prague Castle isn't a singular castle and more so an ensemble of multiple secular and ecclesiastical buildings. Sure it had its origin in a fortified hilltop settlement but over time it evolved into the residence of the bishops and kings of Bohemia.

>>214129023
How would you define the english term "castle"?

Most of these look more like palaces than fortifications.

>>214114922
Bit of rending on that and it would look good

>>214115633
This seems a managable size

>>214129900
>built castle in the 12th century
>few hundred years later artillery develops so that it nearly completely nullifies medieval defensive works
>you update the defensive qualities of your great-great-grandpa's castle to resist those modern weapons
>"Man, this old keep serves no real defensive function anymore and it sucks to live in it - just rebuilt it as a palace"
Or
>don't update the defensive qualities of your great-great-grandpa's castle to resist those modern weapons
>the castle gets fucked in some 17th century war
>built a palace where once the castle stood or let it further lay as a ruin
This is the lifespan of most castles

>>214117322
2 moats? Bit excessive

>>214129875
Castles have to have been built with some defensive purpose in mind
Somewhere like pic related has clearly been inspired by castle structures, but been built without any real concern for defence, but in a lot of countries it would likely be referred to as a castle

>>214130148
heidelberg mentioned

>>214129927
Dad?

>>214115337
Beautiful

>>214130234
>Castles have to have been built with some defensive purpose in mind
That is the case for the majority of buildings itt.
>Somewhere like pic related
Would only be called a castle (Burg) in German if it was built from a preexisting medieval castle due to some sort of modernisation. Since this is clearly not the case it would be called a palace (Schloss) or similar.

>>214130573
do NOT question my authority

>>214130487
*renders you unconscious *

>>214130605
You are literally the subject of a level 100 Power Lich. You don't have any authority.

>>214115122
Me and my sister ran around there and almost fell down the hill when we were little lol

I always liked this photo of the Trakošćan castle, titled 'The Sunken Castle".
It's a part of a larger monograph called Hrvatska iz zraka (Croatia from Above)

>>214130873
Post a picture of your sister for me to understand this anekdote

>>214114078 (OP)

This is château de Combourg, in Bretagne. It was the home of French writer Chateaubriand, who is regarded as the father of romantism in France.
In his Mémoires, you can read a precise description of the castle, which was the place he grew up at, and how it shaped him in some aspects.
I hope I can visit it one day, or at least to see the surroundings.

>>214120384
A grower

>>214120745
Me and my dad used to visit all the castles in north wales when i were a lad

>>214132616
Are they still seen as occupation castles?

>>214117706
every post online I've seen saying germans are unfriendly and you'll never belong or integrate if you move there after some digging have turned out to be made by some form of brown person

good thread this

>>214133351
Maybe now. Owain Glyndwr used to be my hero

>>214114078 (OP)
My region was settled in 17 century so we don't have castles. We only have replication of ostrog (a wooden keep pioneers built).

>>214120771
Well, even the Cathar castles were taken, despite being being built in the most unacessible places. pic related

During the 100 years war, that one >>214121152 was taken by the Bongs, because the defenders broke the last rope that was long enough to scoop water from their wells, so they had to surrender.

A really great thread! Thanks to all of you.
Feel free to start a new but - but I'll have family to host so until the evening I'm busy.

>>214136881
We can still chat about the many posts, even if the image limit has been reached :(