RoadsToRuins.com
Title
Castle Search: Links to castle pages from around the world.
Contact
- Freelance Graphics
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- Lakewood WA
- United States 98498
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- (1253)5827165
Description
This site will prepare you for your trip to Germany by providing historical data and road maps to many of Germany's castles. We begin with a brief history, but you have the option of cutting directly to the maps to, and photographs of the castles, or what is left of many of them, by clicking on the options at the bottom of each page. You may also go directly to the Castle Table to immediately find a castle whose name you already know. This table, like the site itself, will continue to grow. If you don't find it today, check again in the future. Soon another table will be added that will list castles not depicted in this web site but is a castle site not yet visited by me or visited but not yet included as a page. There is also a list of castle terms in both German and English on the drawing board. Stay tuned.
In searching for buildings that could rightly be included here it was a prerequisite that the structure have a history as a building designed or restructured to ward off an armed or hostile attempt at capturing the location or its inhabitants. This may well mean that the structure was never more elaborate or romantic than a very strong farm manor. This in a sense qualifies it as a medieval fortification. There are some that appear today to be simply large dwellings with no obvious signs of a Medieval history. Yet underneath the visible exterior may lie the basic workings of a former castle or fortified manor.
Achberg (at left, located just north of Lindau on the Bodensee) is a residential structure dating from the 17th century, but is built in part on the remains of 12th century fortified walls.
