You will rarely find a person who will be left indifferent by the beautiful view of the castle on the top of a mountain or a rock … Proudly towering above the mortality of earthly existence, this landscape gives rise to wonderful, sublime feelings in the soul, and someone awakens memories of past lives (or it seems to him:-)) like him, being a brave knight in armor, repels the attacks of the enemy, or one stops a whole detachment of the enemy on one of the narrow streets of the fortress, where even two cannot miss each other. (picture clickabella)
HOGENZOLERN CASTLE, Deutschlandia.
But when it comes to practical application and maintenance, moments may arise that completely knock out all the romance and lofty feelings, and instead of past lives, a deceased life will dream with light sadness - being in an ordinary Khrushchev or other high-rise building, with light, gas, a bathroom and a supermarket nearby, and an elevator, again …
What such a whim attacked the rich and powerful rulers that they began almost simultaneously here and there to build castles in remote mountainous areas, After all, to the castle on the top of the cliff - and even at the very top, where to climb without an elevator is a whole business, and if that to deliver something - so it becomes a real problem. First, water.
At the Hohenzoller castle.
You need a lot of it all the time - to wash, cook, wash dishes, floors, water animals, etc … You need at least your own source, but how often do keys spout on the tops of rocks or mountains? Then - food, it also needs a lot - gentlemen and service personnel live in the castle, and also what kind of garrison, soldiers, warriors.
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San Marino Castello / Italy.
Pets, they need to be fed constantly, and this is hay for horses, etc … In general, the romance diminished, let's go further, well, why should the ruler
such a castle with expensive maintenance, when the castle is on the plain, at the intersection of trade routes, it could serve as an item of income and not expenses, as is the case with romance on the tops of the rocks …
Well, you will say - this is a guard observation post, there was a military garrison in case the enemy troops advance. The ruler learned about this by means of a warning system (fires on the peaks, carrier pigeons, a messenger on a horse), and the garrison went out to meet the enemy in order to delay the enemy until the main forces arrived.
But excuse me - if the castle is in the mountains, then why should the enemy's army go through the mountains in order to provide a service to the garrison? Moreover, the alleged enemy probably knows the location of the enemy's fortified points, and such a point as a castle was built for more than one day and a year - even the grandfathers of the enemies knew about it. So why would the enemy go to glow directly under the telescopes of observers?
SAN MARINO, Italy.
Well, if only they are too honest, go to fight with an open visor, or complete idiots. But neither one nor the other can serve as a clear explanation of the motive for the construction of such an expensive facility. And its location on the top of a cliff, a mountain, doubles or triples the cost of such a castle, on the contrary, if it were built on a plain or a small hill. In addition, even a kindergartener and his classmates can block such a castle, take it under siege …
He simply surrounded the mountain - and watch how the brave enemy tries to break through to bring food or water to the heroic defenders of the fortress … How he first rolls head over heels downward, disregarding sharp stones and a height of several hundred meters or more, and then rapidly climbs up with full food trunks and barrels of water …
And he is not alone - there must be a whole detachment. In general, there are questions, there are many of them, and it is not easy to find a clear 100% answer to them, if you do not take far-fetched versions. I got some version, first, I need to find out in what year these castles were built? Take some Cathar castles for example.
MONSEGUR CASTLE.
According to the official version of history, the castle was destroyed in 1244 by stone-throwing machines, which threw huge cobblestones up to 200 meters (indicated where the machines were installed).
Well - well, "fresh food.." as they say … But that's not the point, the Qatari castle was destroyed and destroyed by the fiends (but they took it more by starvation - by blockade), the question is when it was built. The exact date of construction, due to the exceptional limitation period events, it is not possible to find - the data differ. But there is information about the Cathars as champions of a holy life, they considered themselves to be true followers of the Savior.
Monsegur, inside view.
Perhaps because they sacredly followed his precepts, it is quite possible that they were warned of impending disasters, floods, etc. Then why not “Noah's Ark” castle on the mountain? True, at that time the fairy tale about Noah (Noah is the prototype of a character from more ancient sources), the storytellers who collected the "Old Testament" based on ancient epics and Vedic scriptures have not yet composed, it will be much later.
And if the Savior came in the 11th century, then, having heeded his teachings, the Cathars could well have built a castle at the end of the 11th and beginning of the 12th century, in order to reject this world and retire with dignity to meet the coming cataclysms.
PERPETUSE.
An excellent view of the Flood, which floods the area with a kilometer wave and leaves everything that is built in the lowland under a 5-8 meter layer of mud. Even if the wave catches a little, it’s not scary, it’s just the crest of the wave. The water will quickly disappear, and the whole "nishtyak" will go to the lowland.
PUILORAN.
The priests warned the rulers of impending disasters, and they were obliged to take some measures to save themselves and their loved ones, as well as the immediate environment. Therefore, there should always be several such multifunctional fortresses in the state, And even in our times this has not changed much - everyone knows government bunkers, for which there is always enough money, in contrast to the needs of the people. Since the ruler, like the criminal, has no nationality - one dough.
KERIBUS.
In vain do you think the Cathars built all their castles on the tops of the rocks? I do not argue - one does not interfere with the other, this is both an excellent view of the surroundings, and a sentry post, but this is also a one hundred percent salvation from global floods, which in the past were more than once or twice!
Comments from the comrade appeared very in the subject and in a timely manner:
I will also go over the issue of “expediency”. If castles were fortresses (initially), why would they need such thick walls. What weapon? Cannons (the ones that are shown to us) cannot be dragged into the mountains. All sorts of catapults and trebuchets? This is on the conscience of historians. For example, the outposts in the mountains of our 40th army in Afghanistan. There were no “meters”, and the stone perfectly kept a bullet from both AK and “Boer” and even DShK. He also held an RPG grenade. It doesn't take a few meters. Feasibility. And the same Qatari castles are striking in the thickness of the walls and this is on the tops of the rocks.
Keribus.
The financial side of the issue (the construction of the castle) is also important. There is a beautiful place in Latvia. Sigulda. There, on a tiny patch (by modern standards), the ruins of as many as THREE castles. Under the USSR, one castle was almost restored (rebuilt). The rest waited for their turn. They killed the USSR and the whole new state did not even have money to complete the restoration of one (begun) castle (((.
NEUSCHWANSTEIN.
The famous Neuschwanstein (photo above) completely ruined the budget of Bavaria. The restoration of Carcassonne was named the most expensive construction site in France
(well, not Latvia is clear). But what about their ancestors "riveted" in the hundreds? And this is without technology (very serious), even the 19th century? Here are the Qatari castles.
It was very easy for the ancestors to deliver and build materials and equipment to the tops of the mountains. No roads. Without KAMAZ))).
CARCASSONNE.
Therefore, they were all built for the future - let it be, you never know. And besides, there is information that some floods were arranged specifically to get rid of enemies who seized the earth, or threatened to do so. There were craftsmen in those glorious and harsh times, in the service of the rulers that hobbled with the forces of nature, caused hurricanes, tornadoes, floods.
PUIVER.
There were alchemists, magicians, sorcerers, wizards. And the undead ran in the forests, there are a lot of fantasy films on the theme of the eerie Middle Ages on the net - and this is no accident, the memory of past lives reminds (or just seems) In general, summing up his version of the reason for building castles certainly on the top of a cliff, a mountain, and everyone began to build them at about the same time, I repeat.
They were built to rescue from a giant wave, which in the past more than once or twice served as the cause of the death of mankind, even locally, on a certain area of land or continent. In Europe, they stand thanks to the official version of the x / ztoria, but here
this was harshly demolished thanks again to the current version of the official x / ztoria.
Puyver.
It's the same in Mexico and South America - all over the world - people wanted not to drown and not be buried under a layer of mud several meters deep. Therefore, they were built where higher …
WHAT DO WE HAVE?
There is also - in the Urals, Siberia, the Far East is full of ruins on the tops of the mountains.
And here, in general, the MEGA wall - Arakul Shihan.
TRUTH OUR BUILDINGS AND ANCIENT EUROPEAN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
BECAUSE THE FOUNDATION IS DESTROYED, WEATHERED …
ALSO NOT A BAD PLACE FOR FORTRESS.
THE WHOLE DISTRICT IS ON THE PALM, YES AND THE FLOOD WILL NOT GET THERE.
