teh bunneh Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Anyone know where I might find floorplans/blueprints/layouts of Castle Bathory (AKA Castle Cachtice)? My Google-fu is apparently quite weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory No floor plans yet, but I did find this tidbit: http://vampires.monstrous.com/castle_csejthe.htm This page might lead to something useful: http://www.casahistoria.net/castles.htm I'll look more later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory I have been looking, but am coming up dry so far in terms of actual floor plans. The current castle is often referred to as ruins, and that may be hampering things. Still looking, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory Didn't find any plans, but I did find a whole lot of heavy metal bands I need to look into later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory Cachtice Castle, anglicized as "Csejete." No floor plans appear to be available online. But its a ruin and it may be no one has bothered. Trivially speaking, she was famously walled up there, but they exhumed her and interred her in her family's crypt in Esced. The peasants didn't want her buried near them. Wiki-entry with back ground: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cachtice_Castle Site with pictures: http://www.slovakheritage.org/Castles/cachtice.htm Some shmoes youtube video: (I wrote a a few short urban fantasy stories with Bathory as the anti-hero protagonists a while back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted October 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory I did go to Google Maps and zoomed in on the castle, which gave me a basic layout. It's a little tough to make out any details -- it's sort of hard to tell what's a wall and what's a footpath or a shadow, for instance. But it's a start. Thanks! If anyone finds anything, please let me know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory I did go to Google Maps and zoomed in on the castle, which gave me a basic layout. It's a little tough to make out any details -- it's sort of hard to tell what's a wall and what's a footpath or a shadow, for instance. But it's a start. Thanks! If anyone finds anything, please let me know! Well, think of it this way. If it's this hard for you/us to find maps, then anything you come up with is unlikely to be challenged by the players. Gives you a fairly free hand to use another castle that you can get floor plans for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory I concur. It's a pity, though, since Bathory looks like it would have a very interesting layout compared to the more typical concentric wall-and-keep type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory The concentric wall and keep is really only typical of limited parts of Europe (and certain periods) - there's plenty of floorplans on the web with more varied shapes, but ya have to know where to look. Basically Eastern Europe (including Germany) and Iberia used terrain much more than the low countries, France and England (the home of the concentric wall and keep castle ) so their layouts are much more varied. So if you google (for example) "Moravian castle floorplans" "German castle floor plans" etc for images, select black and white images, and you'll get plenty of "bathory style" castles. This site has plenty of floorplans, plus 3D reconstructions (so to speak ) cheers, Mark Oh, and if it has to be "Bathory's castle" (ie: the one where she was walled up) this video gives a nice overhead view: easy enough to sketch the layout from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory Here's what I ended up making... [ATTACH=CONFIG]40466[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory That works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory Nice. You gonna do floor plans for the larger structures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted November 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Re: Castle Bathory Nice. You gonna do floor plans for the larger structures? I wasn't really planning on it, unless it becomes really important in-game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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