r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 22h ago

Germany has more castles than the United States has McDonald’s. This is the Eltz castle, located in Wiershem. It has been owned and occupied by the same family for 33 generations over 800 years

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u/thedirtyknapkin 20h ago

well that's basically a "manor" in English and is very much not considered a "castle". to call those castles in English just sounds like bad translations work.

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u/zatalak 19h ago

Yeah, ah castle would be more like a 'Burg'.

Chateau could be better fitting for Schloss.

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 18h ago

Actually, alot of thouse manors would have been considered castles by the English back in the day to.

Most people don't realize how low the floor is for what counts as a castle. It's more a result of survivorship bias thar when we think about castles we think about the upper 25-10%