Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BERGFRIED
BERGFRIED
Definitions of BERGFRIED
- A tall defensive tower typically found in medieval castles in German-influenced countries.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BERGFRIED in a Sentence
- Hohenalfingen Castle, Aalen-Hohenalfingen, Ruine (surviving: remains of the bergfried, remains of the mantlet wall).
- Consisting of an inner bailey and two outer baileys, the very large castle of Neuenburg, the residence of the landgraves of Thuringia in Freyburg, Germany, used to have a bergfried in every part of the castle (the inner bailey and outer baileys 1 and 2), i.
- The shape of the irregular polygon is again repeated on the expected direction of attack, so that there is a triple defence here consisting of enceinte, mantlet wall and bergfried.
- Other recognisable remains are the two neck ditches, the gateway, the ruins of the palas, a vaulted cellar, parts of the shield wall and other wall remains of the enceinte and zwinger and the 28-metre-high bergfried.
- The remains of the enceinte, a corner outwork, the flanking towers and the foundations of the bergfried have survived.
- The inner bailey, built on the rocks high above the Zwinger, consists of the formerly three-storeyed palas, the attached cookhouse and the bergfried.
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