Changes at the border castles

Nagy Dóra 12.c

Social DevastationSocial Devastation

•Death, demolition•Social humiliation

-Hungarian families got deported

-were sold as slaves

Border Castle soldiersBorder Castle soldiers

•Run-away nobles from the conquered parts

•Hardly recieved military pay(„Se pénz, se posztó”)

prowling•Starvation, death, captivity

Architectural changesArchitectural changes

• Old border castles needed modernisation

• 1540. major border castles got renewed (Eger, Győr, Szigetvár)

• 1550. Italian architectures came to Hungary

• Nicolo Angielini

Changes in the structureChanges in the structure

• Tall, thin walls low, thick walls(suitable for cannons)

• Round towers bastions• Wedge-like, stand out of the wall line• Convex shape no dead-spaces• Polygon shape (pentagon, hexagon)• Costly constructions

Hungarian type – Palisade Hungarian type – Palisade CastlesCastles

• Multilayered (oak beams + mud + clay)

• Round towers

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