between a bergfried and a keep is that a bergfried was typically not designed for permanent habitation. The living quarters of a castle with a bergfried are...

French soldiers finally destroyed the place. The surviving keep, or bergfried, was initially used as a prison, but was no longer fit for that purpose...

concentric walls built in the 16th century and oval in shape, and the bergfried which is of Romanesque origin. Its character is still that of a fortress...

half of the 14th century, the still-extant five-sided 33 m (108 ft) high bergfried (similar to a keep) was built. A second castle tower is mentioned in 1346...

inner courtyard, in the centre of which was a round Romanesque keep (bergfried), with an outside wall 4 m thick. Water was supplied to the castle by...

with its great perron on the park side, is a 19th-century addition. The bergfried is integrated as an element of the west wing into the main structure and...

Romanesque 13th century Bergfried (keep), the Renaissance well house from 1603 and the Marienkirche (or St Mary's Church). The Bergfried was originally known...

Bischofstein Castle (German: Burg Bischofstein) is a castle by the Moselle in Germany. It sits between Moselkern and Hatzenport; these and the castle face...

metre, square bergfried are vaulted. Access to the second floor is via a staircase in the wall. The building attached to the bergfried was built in 1989...

work on Gräfenstein Castle. The central element of the site, with its bergfried and palas probably dates to the 12th century and thus goes back to the...

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...

presumably also the builders, were the counts of Werdenberg-Sargans. The bergfried (the keep, built in the 12th century) and parts of the eastern side are...

13th-century Otzberg, which comprises a circular bergfried on a hill above the village of the same name. The bergfried is surrounded by concentric, oval-shaped...

towers (architecture) List of tallest towers in the world Battery tower Bergfried Breaching tower Butter-churn tower Flanking tower Fortified tower Gate...

than as a residence for royal families. It has a striking example of a bergfried designed as a butter-churn tower. Of the 40 hill castles between Bingen...

Eppstein. Today it is known as the Bad Homburg Castle with the famous "Bergfried" (white tower) Around this castle the town Bad Homburg was founded by...

The Alte Burg is a ruined spur castle that only comprises half a bergfried and is located in the Lower Saxon district of Osterode in the Harz Mountains...

Angstloch is usually located above the basement of a fighting tower or Bergfried. The description of these basement rooms as "dungeons" stems from the...

ward with the remains of a Late Romanesque hall or residence and the bergfried in the centre, which is partly made of brick and was built in 1200 and...

on a hilltop, or, on lower ground, a tall, free-standing tower (German Bergfried). The largest castles had well-defined inner and outer courts, but no...

Lichtenstein Pfarrweisach-Lichtenstein The ruins of North Castle with its bergfried and the Pfeilscharte tower Lichtenstein Castle Show map of Bavaria Lichtenstein...

Tower and the bergfried of Idstein Castle) and Oberwesel (the "Oxen Tower"). The Marksburg above Braubach am Rhein had a square bergfried to which was...

(1996). "Der Bergfried der Burg Mildenstein, Leisnig". Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten in Sachsen. 4. "Bergfried". Burg Mildenstein...

Right: the neo-Romanesque castle chapel The Münz and central bergfried The central bergfried from the east The watchtower (interior) The south side of the...

draft Castle view View from the Eastern bergfried Western bergfried and palas (residential building) Eastern bergfried seen from the inner ward Old Tilia Gärtner...

1995 as the "Friends of Lichtenberg Castle" (200 members). In 1861 the bergfried, which had become a 15-metre-high (49 ft) ruin, collapsed and was demolished...

Düren und der Stadt Nideggen) was established in the fighting tower or bergfried. In the Second World War the tower was used by artillery units as an observation...

is of compact layout, consisting mainly of a great hall and a massive bergfried, originally 40 metres tall, on the uphill side. In 1435, the Counts of...

the enceinte was reinforced with flanking towers and the late Gothic bergfried converted into the butter churn shape (similar to that in Idstein). In...

was in the castle, also features paintings by Lucas Cranach.: 150  The Bergfried (donjon) was completed in 1859 and sits on the foundations of a medieval...