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Schloss (; pl. Schlösser), formerly written Schloß, is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house; or what in the British Isles would be known as a stately home or country house.
Similarly, in the Scandinavian languages, related Germanic languages, the cognate word slot/slott is normally used for what in English could be either a palace or a castle (instead of words in rarer use such as palats/palæ or kastell or borg). In Dutch the word "slot" is considered to be more archaic. Nowadays one commonly uses "paleis" or "kasteel".
Most Schlösser were built after the Middle Ages as residences for the nobility and not as true fortresses, although they were often originally fortified; the usual German term for a true castle is Burg and for a fortress is Festung; however, many castles were called "Schloss", especially those that were used as residences after they lost their defensive significance and many were adapted to new tastes during the Renaissance and Baroque period.
Like a castle, a Schloss is often surrounded by a moat and is then called a Wasserschloss ( water castle). Other types include the Stadtschloss (city palace), the Jagdschloss ( hunting lodge) and the Lustschloss (pleasure palace or summer residence).
Usage examples of "schloss".
The custodian of the Schloss came at last, and the Marches saw instantly that he was worth waiting for.
She went on chuckling at her joke and I made up my mind that the next day I would come down to the town when the children were with Pastor Kratz and ride up to the schloss and tell the guards that they must let the Prince know that Helena Trant was asking to see him.
He relied on daily despatches from Geissler and a weekly report from Hans when he came back for his day off at the schloss.
Sie zogen sie mit sich bis mitten auf den Boden, wo der Mond schien, tanzten mit ihr und alle andern Blumen schlossen einen Kreis um sie.
Sighing heavily, and abandoning the fish fingers, profiteroles and ice cream on the floor of the wine cellar, Pandora trekked up eight flights of stairs to the Schloss attic, a vast family museum of a loft space, full of dust and cobwebs, home to generations of spiders, woodworms and roosting bats.
After a hurried visit to the castle we started on the long drive to Oberleutensdorf, a smaller Schloss near Komotau, where the Waldstein family was then staying.
In the Schloss Adler, Smith reflected, there would be neither pneumatic chisels nor oxy-acetylene equipment for there could be no conceivable call for either, but, even so, it didn't seem to matter: with all the best will in the world a couple of iron hasps couldn't for long withstand an attack of that nature.
They had moved from Kiezstrasse to a housing development close to the Schloss Cecilienhof and its magnificent lakeside park.
The Schloss Adler was well and truly alight, a conflagration in which smoke had suddenly become an inconsiderable and, indeed, a very minor element.
He'd have preferred 400 to reduce wind drift, but they'd agreed that Von Lutzow should glide in on reduced power till after he was well past the schloss, and that required more elevation.