An urban castle (German: Stadtburg) is a castle that is located within a medieval town or city or is integrated into its fortifications. In most cases...

often emphasised in castle studies, the structures also served as centres of administration and symbols of power. Urban castles were used to control...

Barnard Castle Urban District was the local government area for the urban district of Barnard Castle in County Durham created in 1894 and dissolved in...

Front Range urban corridor. The town is named for the prominent, castle-shaped butte near the center of town. The region in and around Castle Rock was originally...

unsatisfied with and weary of an urban lifestyle. Although native to the city, he decides to forsake not only his urban 'castle in the air' but also his love...

and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd Jōkamachi Urban castle Cartwright, Mark. "Medieval Castle". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-12-23...

Eltville Castle (Burg Eltville) is an urban castle in Eltville am Rhein im the Hessian county of Rheingau-Taunus and is the symbol of the town. In German...

habitation there is no conclusive evidence of fortification. Oxford Castle was an "urban castle", overlying a portion of the Saxon town wall, but it remains...

before 1390, one can admit, there was a castle in Brest earlier. Nevertheless, after 1390, becoming an urban castle, it was not only a site, fortified with...

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a...

the north-east corner of Chichester, the castle was protected by the city walls. As it was an urban castle inserted into a pre-existing settlement, buildings...

recorded of the 11 urban castles in the 1086 survey, four houses were torn down to make way for the castle. A motte-and-bailey castle consists of a mound –...

Netherlands Synagogue Front view of the Slavkov Castle Church of the Resurrection of the Lord Chapel of St. Urban Castle park "Population of Municipalities – 1...

Osaka Castle (大坂城 or 大阪城, Ōsaka-jō) is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle and fortress are one of Japan's most famous landmarks and...

buildings throughout the world from Esterhazy Castle in Hungary to the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. Urban studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts...

The Front Range Urban Corridor is an oblong region of urban population located along the eastern face of the Southern Rocky Mountains, encompassing 18...

Southampton Castle was located in the town of Southampton in Hampshire, England. Constructed after the Norman conquest of England, it was located in the...

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 (姫路城, Himeji-jō) ([çimeʑiꜜʑoː] ) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. The castle is...

Hiroshima Castle (広島城, Hiroshima-jō), sometimes called Carp Castle (鯉城, Rijō), is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō (feudal...

The castle in Forchheim (German: Burg in Forchheim), also referred to as a royal palace or Kaiserpfalz, was an important urban castle under the bishops...

Osaka Castle Park (大阪城公園, Osaka-Jō-Kōen) is a public urban park and historical site situated at Osaka-Jō in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. It lies on the south...

Castle". Derbyshire Guide. Retrieved 25 July 2016. "Riber Castle – Urban Desertion". Urban Desertion. Archived from the original on 2 May 2006. Retrieved...

Berkhamsted Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The castle was built to obtain control of a key route between London...

United States Census. Castle Pines is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city...

Jared N. (1999). Urban castles: tenement housing and landlord activism in New York City, 1890 – 1943. The Columbia history of urban life. New York, NY:...

Hambach Castle (German: Hambacher Schloss) is a castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...

Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central...

administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban District. The administrative and ceremonial county boundary was adjusted in 1974. Barnard Castle became administrative...

Highclere Castle /ˈhaɪklɪər/ is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown...