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Camelback Castle/Copenhaver Castle. The construction of the castle began in 1967 and was finished in 1977. The castle is located at 5050 E. Red Rock Dr. in Phoenix, Arizona. The architectural style of the castle is that of medieval Moorish. The castle has a dungeon, a drawbridge and a moat as well. [12]
The castle was constructed in the 1220s by Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy. [1] The castle proper occupies the tip of a bluff or falaise. It forms an irregular trapezoid of 92 x 35 x 50 x 80 m. At the four corners are cylindrical towers 20 m in diameter (originally 40 m in height). Between two towers on the line of approach was the massive donjon
Krak des Chevaliers was built during the 12th and 13th centuries by the Knights Hospitaller with later additions by Mamluks. It is a World Heritage Site. [1]This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades.
“Gloucester’s castle would’ve been a hub of medieval life — a fortress, a residence, and a witness to centuries of change,” the private archaeology firm said in a May 13 Facebook post.
Particularly large towers are often the strongest point of the castle: the keep or the bergfried. As the gate is always a vulnerable point of a castle, towers may be built near it to strengthen the defences at this point. In crusader castles, there is often a gate tower, with the gate passage leading through the base of the tower itself. In ...
In German, a "Torburg", lit. "gate castle", is a relatively autonomous and heavily fortified gateway of a castle or town. Medieval castle gateways of this type usually have additional fortifications in front of them. A common form is the tower gateway (German: Turmtorburg); a variant is the bastion gateway (German: Halbrundturmtorburg).
The elevated entrance of Tirol Castle is, however, about 1.25 metres wide and over three metres high. The gateways are generally designed as round arches, more rarely as Gothic arches. Late medieval entrances sometimes have straight or stepped lintels and even trefoil arches (e.g. Kronsegg Castle, Lower Austria). The door frames are usually ...
Furthermore, some towers that might look medieval at first glance are, in reality, 19th century Historicist creations (e.g. the Wartburg of the 1850s) and some are even romanticized notions of medieval castle architecture (Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, 1909). Late medieval tower crowns (which themselves are often a remodelling of the original ...