A refuge castle or refuge fort (German: Fliehburg, also Fluchtburg, Volksburg, Bauernburg or Vryburg) is a castle-like defensive location, usually surrounded...

A cave castle (German: Höhlenburg) or grotto castle (German: Grottenburg) is a residential or refuge castle that has been built into a natural cave. It...

Oppidum Palisade Pincer gate Promontory fort Rampart Ringfort (Rath) Refuge castle Schwedenschanze Stockade Sudis Trou de loup Vallum Wagon fort (Laager)...

Roman aqueduct or castellum aquae. It is the source of the English word "castle". Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary C. Julius Caesar...

Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) offshore from Crescent City in northern California. This coastal rock covers approximately...

bergen. Sometimes both terpen and werven are called vliedburg, or "refuge castles". During the 12th and 13th centuries a number of terpen mounds were...

March 2019. "About the Refuge - Butte Sink". US Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 7 March 2019. "About the Refuge - Castle Rock". US Fish and Wildlife...

The castle was probably built during the Celtic period as a refuge castle. The present burgstall only consists of two hollows between which the castle was...

father, Dietrich I of Are, had already started the construction of a refuge castle on the mountain. Ulrich's descendants called themselves the lords of...

the main island of Bermuda, and attacking vessels from slipping through Castle Harbour and the channel between Ferry Reach and Coney Island. The main channel...

Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the site of an Old Saxon hillfort and refuge castle, the Eresburg, on a hill 130m above the Diemel river, a tributary of...

California. Castle Rock Refuge has the largest breeding population of common murres in California. "Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge". Geographic...

The Castle Dome Mountains (Tolkepaya Yavapai: Wi:hopuʼ) are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome...

The Eresburg is the largest, well-known (Old) Saxon refuge castle (Volksburg) and was located in the area of the present German village of Obermarsberg...

as possible to reach them. There are embrasures especially in fortified castles and bunkers. The generic term of loophole is gradually abandoned because...

Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop...

(German: Homburgswarte) is an observation tower on the site of a Germanic refuge castle (Fliehburg) near the Hexentanzplatz above the town of Thale in the Harz...

zone, 1945–1949  Germany, 1949–present A Bronze Age (Urnfield culture) refuge castle, the Celtic Segodunum, and later a Roman fort, stood on the hill known...

as the upper station for the chair lift. Nearby is the Winzenburg, a refuge castle 25 hectares (62 acres) in area with a 500-metre-long (1,600 ft) rampart...

The siege of Inabayama Castle (稲葉山城の戦い, Inabayama-jō no Tatakai) of 1567 was the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to defeat the Saitō clan in their...

The Grasburg is a prehistoric refuge castle, in the form of a hillfort with a rampart and ditch system, near Rottleberode in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz...

in that they offered refuge to dispossessed Cathars in the thirteenth century. Many of these sites were replaced by new castles built by the victorious...

Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist...

built all around it, which made Puilaurens a Castle. It is known only for the role of refuge of the castle during the Albigensian Crusade. In 1240, a woman...

century, especially by Friedrich Langewiesche, who assessed it as a refuge castle. Ceramic and even metalwork finds indicate that it belongs to the La...

local population as a retreat and defensive position, similar to a refuge castle. A fortress church usually implies that the church is enclosed by its...

strategic location to build a castle. The earliest history of the castle, which was erected on the remains of an earlier refuge castle is largely unknown. In...

the location of an older refuge castle from the 10th century. In 1179, a Count Dietrich von Merburg is documented. The castle was probably abandoned in...

castle Fortified house Hill castle Hillside castle Island castle Lowland castle Ordensburg Ridge castle Spur castle Toll castle Water castle Castle features:...

This is a list of castles, fortifications and schlösser in the Eifel mountains covering the period from the Celts to the Early Modern Period. The list...