| Abbruch Verkauft |
sold at demolition value / demolition sale |
| Abschnittsburg |
divided complex with more than one independent defensive section |
| Abschnittsgraben |
ditch, moat within a castle to add an additional sector of defense |
| Abtei |
abbey |
| Abtritt |
toilet as in bay-type protrusion or a brick-lined hole in the floor |
| Adel |
nobility |
| Anfänge |
beginning, outset |
| Anlage |
complex, layout, structure, enclosure |
| Arrestantentürme |
detainee (prison) tower |
| Aufragend(En) |
emergent (vertical movement-arise) |
| Ausgedehnt(Este) |
extended (most) as if we could say extendedest. prolonged |
| Ausguß |
sink with waste channeled to outside the wall |
| Äussersten |
outer extreme |
| Ausstattung |
provisions, furnishings, equipment |
| Ballei |
province (land partition) of teutonic knights, bailiwick |
| Barbakane |
barbican |
| Barbakane |
barbican: bridge-head fortification protecting approach to the castle |
| Bastei |
bastion |
| Bauernkrieg |
peasants’ war (farmer=bauer) |
| Baufällige |
decrepit, derelict |
| Bedeckt |
covered (as with dirt or cloud cover) |
| Bedeuten (D) (Ung) |
significant, important, meaningful |
| Belagerung (Belagerer) |
siege (besieger) |
| Belagerung-Turm |
siege-tower |
| Bergfried |
keep-strong tower usually as a final defensive position. |
| Beringen |
to ring - as to encircle |
| Beschädigung |
damage |
| Besiedelt |
inhabited, settled |
| Besitzer / Besitz |
owner / possess |
| Bewahrt, Bewahren |
preserved, preserve |
| Bewegtem |
disturbing, eventful, turbulent |
| Bezirk |
district, region, precinct |
| Briefadel |
document promoting one to nobility (brief-adel) |
| Brunnen |
well: often hundreds of meters deep cut through the rock base below the castle. |
| Brüstung |
parapet, balustrade |
| Burg |
castle: in its strictest definition a personal defensive residence |
| Burgensis |
town populace - a term the appeared about 1000 a.d. refering to the local community |
| Burgfrieden |
a truce. a legal prohibition against settlement of disputes by use of force. |
| Burggarten |
castle herbal garden- a practice brought back from crusades. |
| Burggraben |
moat, castle ditch |
| Burggraf |
castle count, feudal lord |
| Burghof |
courtyard / bailey |
| Degan |
sword |
| Deutscher Orden |
order of german knights |
| Dirnitz |
a small residential apartment or independent residential bldg within the castle grounds |
| Donjon |
a fortified tower, a keep with residential ammenities but not to the extent of the palace |
| Doppelkapelle |
a two-tiered castle chapel to separate the noble family from their staff at service. |
| Ecktürme / Eckturm |
corner tower |
| Edel (Freien) |
noble (free noble) |
| Eigen |
on one's own authority |
| Eindruckvolle (Sten) |
impressive (most impressive) |
| Einstelle |
put in, built into or over |
| Enthält |
contain, comprehend (as in entails) |
| Entstehung |
origin, emergence |
| Erbe |
inheritance |
| Erbtruchsesse |
inherited managerial position under a higher lord |
| Erde |
earth / soil |
| Erfolgte |
took place, occurred |
| Ergänzen |
complete, add, supplement |
| Erker |
bay window |
| Erlitt |
suffered |
| Eroberte (Eroberer) |
conquer (conquerer) |
| Errichtet |
erected |
| Erscheint |
appeared |
| Erstmahls |
first time |
| Erstrecken |
stretch, extend |
| Erwähnung, Erwähnt |
mention, mentioned |
| Erzherzogtum |
archduchy |
| Erzkurfürstbistum |
literal: elected arch-prince of a diocese |
| Erzstift |
archbishopric (archdiocese) |
| Fallbrücke |
drawbridge |
| Fallgitter |
portcullis: a timber-built lattice-work drop-gate with iron reinforcement and pointed iron-tip bottoms |
| Fehde |
fued |
| Felsmassiv |
massive rock |
| Felssporn |
rock spur |
| Festes Haus |
fortified manor of the 16th century |
| Festung |
fortress |
| Fiale |
pinnacle |
| Fliehburg |
a pre-feudal refuge such as the motte-and-bailey where locals fled for protection in times of threat. |
| Fluchtburg |
refuge, protective castle |
| Fortschrittlichsten |
progressive, most advanced |
| Francisca |
frankish axe weapon |
| Frauenabtei |
abbey for women |
| Frauenstift |
women's foundation, probably a cloister, nunnery |
| Freien |
free / court / wed |
| Frietreppe |
open stairway |
| Fürstbistum |
prince head of a diocese, bishopric |
| Gaden |
a closed or protected area in a castle or fortified church for the protection of locals and livestock |
| Galt/Gelten |
in legal force, the force of law, acceptable, as in "that goes (gelt) for you." |
| Ganerbenburg |
a castle resided in by more than one member or family branch of the noble dynasty |
| Gebietes |
region, area (also command) |
| Gedeckter (Wehrgang) |
covered (parapet walk) |
| Gefangengehalten |
imprisoned |
| Gefängnis |
prison |
| Gefürstete |
something entitled as a principality |
| Gelände |
site, terrain |
| Gelegene |
lie/be, opportune |
| Genehmigen/Genehmigte |
authorize/approved |
| Genutzt, Nutzen |
used, useful |
| Geschichte |
history |
| Geschlect |
dynasty, family line, sex |
| Geschossige (Dreigeschossige) |
stories (three story) |
| Geschützte |
protected |
| Geschütztürme |
turrets / gun towers / protective towers (literal) |
| Gewalt |
power, authority, control |
| Gewerbe |
trade (commerce) |
| Gleich / Gleichen |
similar, close |
| Glockenklang |
bell sound - the hearing distance once used to establish parish limits |
| Graben |
ditch (grab: grave) (graben:dig) |
| Graf (En) |
count |
| Grafschaft |
principality ruled by a count |
| Grossartig |
splendid, wonderful |
| Größtenteils |
mainly (gross:large, teil:part) "for the most part" |
| Gründer/Gründete/Gegründete |
originator/found/founded, establish |
| Grundfläche |
base (of operations) ground area / footprint |
| Gusserker |
brattice, casting-bay window |
| Gußloch |
a murder-hole installed in the tops of gate passages through which stones, hot oils could be hurled at enemy intruders |
| Halbrund |
half round |
| Halbrundtürmen |
half round tower (halb-rund-türmen) |
| Halsgraben |
throat ditch or neck-ditch. a section cut from mountain spur to separate a castle from the land approach |
| Hauptstamm |
central family (trunk - of family tree) |
| Heimsuchen / Heimgesucht |
invade / invaded |
| Heizung |
heat/heater: a system on the roman innovation that channeled heat up through wall spaces into the room above |
| Helm |
helmet |
| Herrlichkeit |
glory, splender |
| Herrschaft |
lordship, authority |
| Herzogtum |
duchy |
| Hinblick |
in view of / hindsight |
| Hochadelssitz |
seat of high aristocracy (hoch-adel-sitz=high-noble-seat) |
| Hochstift |
high foundation (diocese, bishopric) |
| Hof / Höfe |
courtyard, at least partially enclosed |
| Höhlenburg |
cave castle: carved into cavities of rock faces |
| Inne(N) |
inside, inner, |
| Kaiserreich |
emperor's rule, empire |
