"Pastel Castle?" Topic
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Bunkermeister | 23 Feb 2014 1:09 a.m. PST |
Apart from those located on Disney owned properties, are there any real castles in pastel colors? I am looking for castles or palaces like a Disney castle, Cinderella castle, but a real one. Thanks. Mike Bunkermeister Creek Bunker Talk blog |
plutarch 64 | 23 Feb 2014 3:23 a.m. PST |
These are the castles that, from memory, the Disney movies were based upon. They do look quite pastel in the right light, if I recall correctly:
link link link They are not that old however, in the context of other European castles (and I think "Mad King Ludwig had a bit to do with their construction), but they are still worth looking up if you are ever in Bavaria. |
vaughan | 23 Feb 2014 4:26 a.m. PST |
It was quite normal for the walls to be plastered and white washed. They were therefore most likely to be white, or possibly a slight pinkish tinge. It would be unlikely they could make sufficient uniform paint for the whole job, but the raw plaster or whitewash may well have a "local" tinge to them to give a uniform appearance. Of course that's for medieval castles, 18 and 19th century faux castles were indeed painted to the owner's whim as uniform paint was by then more readily available. |
miniatureMOJO | 23 Feb 2014 5:33 a.m. PST |
I visited Stirling castle about 10 years ago, soon after it's restoration. The main hall had a freshly plastered exterior, which was pink. The plasters colour would reflect the ingredients used. In Essex (UK) medieval houses were often plastered pink, which IIRC was due to blood being used in the mix (perhaps as a binding agent?). |
bsrlee | 23 Feb 2014 10:16 a.m. PST |
Some of the Dutch brick built castles are pretty pale, depending on the clay used for the bricks they range from orange to yellow. You could also have a look at some of the Spanish castles, a lot of them were built with sandstone or limestone facings which can look like a uniform paint job, again generally in the yellow/orange/red range of colours. As noted by previous posters, castles were 'whitewashed' in a variety of colours as well as having deliberately chosen contrasting stone colours, such as the Theodosian walls of Constantinople and some of Edward 1's Welsh castles. Of course the 'whitewash' does not last more than a few years, plaster lasts decades if looked after but a few hundred years of neglect plus enthusiastic Victorian cleaning could be relied on to remove everything unless it was buried by a wall collapse of something similar when archeologists might find traces. |
ColCampbell | 24 Feb 2014 7:44 a.m. PST |
Plutarch's first two links are to "Mad" King Ludwig of Bavaria's creation, Neuschwanstein (New Swan Rock) which was built in the 1870s. The third link is Hohenschwangau (roughly, High Swan District) which was built by Ludwig's father, Maximilian II, in the 1830s over the ruins of an earlier medieval castle. Whether these would fill your requirement or not is of course up to you. Jim P.S. I've visited both of these while stationed in Germany in the 1980s. |
Fizzypickles | 24 Feb 2014 3:28 p.m. PST |
It's that central European belt from Denmark through Germany and Austria as far as the Balkans and Romania that have all those 'fairytale' type castles. |
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