2015-10-13 23:57 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > So .. what is the difference between a building and a castle? > > A castle has a building inside a defensive wall, usually the building is > separate from the wall to enhance the building security. >
IMHO a castle is a kind of building - actually several kind of buildings can be called castle. In German there are these distinctions: - Palast ~palace (a representative residence of a noble family inside a settlement, often a city) - Schloss ~castle / stately home a representative residence of a noble family, either inside a city or outside on its own, usually not fortified, often symmetrical - Burg ~castle a defensive, fortified (often simple) residence of the middle ages, sometimes also later - Festung fortification, usually post-black powder (i.e. "modern" military installation) This is a very simplistic view on the topic, there are of course subtypes etc., and there have been literally written hundreds of books on each of these types, their characteristics, subtypes, context, etc. Cheers, Martin
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