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Castle Gate or Castlegate may refer to: The gate of a castle (such as a portcullis) Town or part of a town. Castlegate, Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland;
Portcullis at Desmond Castle, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland The inner portcullis of the Torre dell'Elefante in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy A portcullis (from Old French porte coleice 'sliding gate') is a heavy, vertically closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications. [1]
Entrance to Schloss Braunfels from the town A view through the castle gates. During the Thirty Years' War, Braunfels Castle was contested and heavily damaged. [3] Due to his support for Frederick V, the Winter King, Count Johann Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels was placed under Imperial ban, and in 1621, the castle was taken without resistance by Spanish troops on behalf of the emperor. [3]
The Severin Gate in Cologne. In German, a "Torburg", lit. "gate castle", is a relatively autonomous and heavily fortified gateway of a castle or town.Medieval castle gateways of this type usually have additional fortifications in front of them.
Hearst Castle, known formally as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "The Enchanted Hill"), is a historic estate in San Simeon, located on the Central Coast of California. Conceived by William Randolph Hearst , the publishing tycoon, and his architect Julia Morgan , the castle was built between 1919 and 1947.
A depiction of the castle on fire in 1831 The castle from The History and Antiquities of Nottingham by James Orange, 1840 Entrance to the Ducal Mansion (2012) After the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the present 'Ducal Mansion' was built for the 1st Duke of Newcastle and completed by his son, the 2nd Duke of Newcastle, after the 1st Duke's ...
Hadad Temple Inside the Citadel The inner gate of the citadel View from outside Entrance gate The fortified entrance Entrance to the Throne Hall: an iwan with ablaq masonry The Throne Hall. The Citadel of Aleppo (Arabic: قلعة حلب, romanized: Qalʿat Ḥalab) is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo ...
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most heavily armed section of a fortification, to compensate for being structurally the weakest and the ...