What are /pol/s thoughts on living in small castles?
>>74003572
stone makes good thermal retention. saves money on heating / cooling. Also looks cool.
I always wanted to try building one in da woods. I don't have an army of serfs though.
>>74004512
>>74003572
>>74003714
North America - talking about castles.
>inb4 disneyland
>>74003714
If I ever become god emperor of the mankind that will be my home
So comfy, it only need a lake with a tiny island inside of it
>>74004786
in the New World, we still long for the ancient beauty of the Old World.
>>74004786
>buy a rural piece of land for minimal cost
>slow build your own castle over 20 years
>arguably the purest and most masculine love a man can have
>complete it
>suburban sprawl begins running up against your land
>your castle is now worth millions of dollars because of the effort you put into it, and now you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes you can't afford
>local municipality declares your castle in violation of a dozen different firecodes
>it's discovered that a rare kind of weed happens to exist within a ten mile of your castle
>someone spreads a rumor that you're paranoid and shoot anyone that approaches your castle
>the FBI, CIA, ATF, EPA, IRS, and BLM work together and siege your castle
>snipers kill you the moment you step outside of your door
>local city government takes possession of your castle
>100 years later, it is a public museum and cultural artifact protected from destruction, commemorating you for your gracious donation to the government
>>74003714
>stone makes good thermal retention. saves money on heating / cooling.
> i have never slept in a castle
stone is cold and drafty as fuck, you dork
>>74005353
The American nightmare
>>74005066
Reply accepted.
Here's one of my fav castles the "Southern key to Res Publica"
>>74005490
You're definitely retarded. Thermal mass is how passive solar works. Stone is not drafty in the fucking least. It's a solid stone.
bumping with some real castles
>>74006634
castles are too massive to be the ideal mass for conducting heat for human comfort. the day doesn't have enough energy to warm up the inside.
you're like my retarded ex girlfriend who thought that by shutting the windows of the house, she could "shut out" the heat without using the AC.
why are people so fucking dumb
![Durham-Cathedral-and-Castle[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3kZ08IK.jpg "Durham-Cathedral-and-Castle[1].jpg")
There's a castle attached to the cathedral in the center of my home-city, belongs to the University as student accommodation.
When the students go home for summer, they become tourist accommodation. Cheap tourist accommodation too, in the center of the city.
Castle is in the top right. Aren't any especially good front facing views because all but the crenelations and keep are masked by trees.
>>74007841
If anything too much mass means it would get too hot,not too cold. Unless you purposely designed them to be inefficient of course. If you used a reflective insulation on the outside of insulated windows you could easily 'seal' the heat out. Your gf was trying to dumb things down to your level of understanding. The energy from light is reflected. There's still conduction to contend with but it would definitely lower the inside temperatures noticeably.
>>74003572
People have always wanted that.
The domus w/ atrium is one of the earliest ideas.
A castle is the most patrician place where to live.
I'd be content with just a tower
>>74003572
a place like that will just be a target when the end times come
>>74003572
>Stone fortress
>Battlements
>Badass portcullis gate
>Ground floor windows???
WTF Amerifats?
>>74012028
What's wrong with ground floor windows? 2" polycarbonate is more than enough to stop any attempts to get through.
>>74004786
They have some castles.
>>74005353
You missed the part about your land not being diverse enough and your castle used for Section 8 housing
>>74012720
kek
>tfw live a few minutes drive from a Motte and Bailey
Pretty small and ruined but history is history.
>>74016711
There's a Norman castle in my town as well. Apparently it's one of the smallest Norman keeps in England
>>74010005
No love for palaces?
Are they too ostentatious for /pol/?
There's this guy 40 mins from my house who has a legitimate castle with a moat surrounding it. Even so, it's far from burglar-proof.
>>74017752
Do you have a picture?
Went to Hearst "Castle" a long time ago in Cali. Not much of a castle but at least it was neat.
How do I build a castle?
>>74020135
>How do I build a castle?
print it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Elbvvr1M
There's a lake surrounding this one.
>>74020914
Is that the Bavarian one? I visited it in unteralterbach.
We have this tiny castle in Denmark called Spottrup Borg.
I visited it last summer. Its comfy as fuck and small enough for it to be reasonable for one family to live in it. Its nothing special but pretty nice and it has a double moat.
>Pic related
>>74022073
Here is the courtyard.
>>74021667
> I visited it in unteralterbach.
Top kek.
>>74003714
Do people live there?
Do they have electricity??
>>74022320
Yeah, i remember seeing a show where they visited a woman living there. The place is full of tourists most of the year though so she said it was kind of rough living there.
>>74022073
>>74022297
Just checked out the wikipedia article about this, respect the guy who wrote that. I love people who are really interested in a particular subject and writes enthutiastically about it
>>74022297
And one that shows the double moat kinda.
>>74003572
My dream, a comfy isolated incident Castle or manor.
>>74022608
Yeah its great! I am mapping out all danish slotte, herregårde, og borge because i cant seem to find a place where they are all listed. Same goes for memorials and such. We have too few history minded autists atm.
guys, guys, hear me out, lets build our castle INTO A FUCKING CAVE
bump for more comfy castles
Just give me a gothic stone cottage.
I wanna feel like I live in Act 1 of Diablo 2. I should expect to battle skeletons when I step outside.
>>74024066
Helm's Deep!
>>74004786
have a slice of American castles you commie
>>74024521
Not that comfy since its pretty huge and surrounded by a big star fort and other defences.
It is where Shakespeare's Hamlet takes place though and the picture is comfy.
>>74024066
That's badass
>>74003714
I've been there on a school trip to France.
Was nice, you walk along the streets in a big spiral to the church at the top.
There are all kinds of traditional shops and eateries along the way.
At the very top one of my class mates hats blew of in the wind, down onto the muddy banks way below.
Oh how we laughed.
Guys, I have another one, you know how rocks are really heavy, lets carry them all the way up this fucking mountain
I remember seeing some castle on a real estate page a couple of weeks ago, was up for sale because previous owner, who had ruled the castle for like 400 years, just didn't want it
>$30M USD
>motherfuckin walled castle
>has a town attached to it that has its own population
>provides its own food, water, income etc
>castle has its own servants, maids and shit
>literally live like a king
The fucking dream.
>>74024765
Fuccin right
>>74025068
nigga you should read about the guy who owned it
>was besieged for a year
>the fucker knew the caves that ran trough the mountains
>bought food on the other side
>when the war party was starting to starve he threw them fresh cherries and a roasted bull from the walls
Why don't we build castles anymore god damn.
>>74025293
Dident he die when he was taking a shit? I was there many years ago and remember a story of someone getting killed while taking a shit by a catapult or something.
Great place though.
>>74025523
he was killed while in his bedroom, ruining a reputation of a betrayed man is the cherry on the top
>>74007932
THATS A GERMAN CASTLE REEEEE
>>74003572
Depends on whether or not it has a moat
>>74007932
Marienburg was built by teutonic Knights. They still haunt your bydlo people that try to enter this Castle.
I swear to god I'm going to build and live in my very own castle one day.
>>74025328
because they were using shitloads of resources to build and were chilly as fuck
this place is pretty cool
its kind of a castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiary
>>74004512
>tfw no serf army to build me a castle inna woods
Why live?
>>74025704
better to let the Poles take care of it.
modern Germany would turn it into an African culture museum or something
>>74025916
you're killing me
>>74025523
A lot of famous leaders were reported to have died whilst on the toilet or in some other manner of way, such as fucking a horse etc.
Its just propaganda from those whose version of history was accepted.
>>74026034
>A lot of famous leaders were reported to have died whilst on the toilet or in some other manner of way, such as shooting himself in a bunker etc.
>Its just propaganda from those whose version of history was accepted.
fixed
We should do it like Coral Castle, Ed did it on his own(pic related) and his techniques are now available.
>>74025664
I tend to agree with this. Or a little hill with a stone cliff would be amazing too.
>>74003572
BEST CASTLE
>>74026616
nah
Remember we have some forts
a castle built for ducks
>>74027440
>a literal monument to mexicans cucking america
>>74010091
>I'd be content with a paraplegic Hooters girl
On top of a rock
>>74027573
there needs to be a book or cartoon series.
>>74003572
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They're beautiful, but its expensive as shit to have to modernize the interior of the castles to have basic electricity, plumbing, and shit like that.
Also, shitloads of basic structural repairs are needed first and foremost before moving in.
Neuschwanstein belongs in this thread
>>74016925
that's really cool
>>74027663
I guess they don't teach history in your country, dumbass. Too cold? Too much fucking poontaine? Carrie Moon not returning your call?
Overwhelmed with fucking layers of clothing thicker than your dick is long? Your roads to clogged with American vehicles and motorized French death traps that look like a woman's underarm with sheet metal hair? Fucking have to have the word "Canada" sewn on your uniform so you'll know which country you belong to.
>castles
>not wizard towers
>>74025182
Fucking hell, where?
Australia's greatest castle
>>74026128
Ha, I'm disappointed in myself for missing that joke.
Well done.
>>74029043
make some sense you fucking sperg
>>74029162
In magic fairy land you fucking poof
>captcha -> indications for carcassone
In Cleveland, OH we have this. A rich oil man built it. It's actually just a gatehouse for what was going to be a huge castle behind it, but he never got around to actually building the main estate. Now it's a public park.
>>74004786
somebody's never seen blank check
>>74030296
wow that looks nice and cozy
>>74025916
i went on a haunted tour there in 2001 and the whole event was sponsored by volkswagen and the entire time it was full of product placement puns it was the worst thing ever
>>74022806
What's the point of the embankment? Did it originally have another wall or at least wooden palisade? Seems like it would just give the enemy cover and elevation to surround you at close range.
How does one even build a defendable castle?
It can't be just piling stones on top of each other.
>>74007841
>>74009763
>two clearly intelligent people calling each other retarded in several ways
man I love /pol/
>>74024066
Nazi zombie laboratory.
>>74031043
It was filled with lava originally
>>74030380
was that a disney film?
>>74031094
Location is the main thing. If you build a castle on a flat plan, you're gonna get fucked up. You need to build somewhere that you can use the land to your advantage. So like on the side of a cliff, which will allow you to maximise your defences on the vulnerable side.
Also obstacles like moats, chokepoints, and kill zones (such as occurred at gates where there were often three directions of fire from defenders).
>>74031043
I assume it is to slow down enemy movement allowing inhabitants in the castle to fire arrows at the intruders. Friendly troops would likely be withdrawn to the middle wall for a last stand. It looks like a SHTF type of structure. When the enemy got that close you are more or less toast.
>>74017379
I've always thought so. Palaces are just so over done and gaudy.
I like my dream house to be strong and imposing.
>>74030184
I like dick and I'm still less of a faggot than you cuck
>>74025664
>>74026193
I know I'd probably just end up trying to turn the moat into a lazy-river.
>>74032526
>hey bb :^)
part of my elaborate dream is to build my own home out of stone
>the previous owners had felt that the castle was such a liability that they sold it to him for £1 in 1997
>tfw no £1 castle
>>74027927
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>fixed
But yes, just think about the labour, drilling through all that stone to run electrical wiring, all the while hiding any indication of modern touches.
>>74003572
When the Walking Dead actually happens it will be an outstanding idea.
>>74029605
>not posting abbo hut
can't get more traditional than that
