Angstloch
An Angstloch (German: fortresses that led to a cellar or basement room below. The term is german and has no english equivalent, although a door, where there is one, to such a hole is called a trapdoor (German: Falltür).
An Angstloch is usually located above the basement of a fighting tower or rope ladder as these 19th century accounts suggest. Archaeological finds, by contrast, indicate the use of these basement spaces as store rooms. For example, piles of stones have been found in such rooms that suggest they were used as a store for projectiles to be used in time of siege.[citation needed]
Literature
- ISBN 3534078616
- Brandstetter, Alois (1986), Die Burg (in German), Residenz Verlag, p. 293, ISBN 3701704309
- Piper, Otto (1900), Abriss der Burgenkunde, Göschen Collection (in German), vol. 119, G. J. Göschen, pp. 47ff
- ———. Burgenkunde: Bauwesen und Geschichte der Burgen (in German), Weidlich, 1967, p. 664, ISBN 9783803583161