<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-10-13 23:57 GMT+02:00 Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3jq" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">So .. what is the difference between a building and a castle?<br>
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A castle has a building inside a defensive wall, usually the building is separate from the wall to enhance the building security.<span class=""><br>
</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all">IMHO a castle is a kind of building - actually several kind of buildings can be called castle.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In German there are these distinctions:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Palast ~palace (a representative residence of a noble family inside a settlement, often a city)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- 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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Burg ~castle a defensive, fortified (often simple) residence of the middle ages, sometimes also later<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Festung fortification, usually post-black powder (i.e. "modern" military installation)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>