Castle Matching Game

We went to Alsace on Monday to visit castles and then to eat dinner with a "true" (14 generations) Alsatian family that Patrick met through his antique postcard collecting. Each picture represents something, and it is up to you to match the picture to the description. Here are the descriptions:

A: "Donjon"
B: Medieval Chapel
C: gate with drawbridge holes
D: sewage system
E: Medieval toilet
F: cannon firing hole
G: Medieval fireplace
H: "Choucroute Alsacienne"


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ANSWERS:

1 B: This 11 or 12th century tiny chapel was in the wall of a castle ruin.

2 D: Yes, this is indeed the exterior of an indoor toilet! They would sit down on a stone seat with a hole in it, and go...and it would just all exit out the tower. Sarah, I know you love this one!

3 F: When canons were invented, this castle was updated to allow for holes to fire out of.

4 G: Most castles we have seen had some kind of fireplace in the wall.

5 A: A "Donjon" is the tower that was the last resort when a castle was under seige. It was where the family lived, and where they stayed in a seige.

6 H: Homemade! Excellent!

7 E: This is a different castle but another toilet. Here you get to see the seat!

8 C: This gate once had a drawbridge. You can kind of see the openings where the drawbridge mechanisms were (above the opening).