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Explanation: The relevant glossaries all list "conical roof" as "A roof in the shape of an inverted cone atop a cylindrical tower" or something similar, see Link #1. A google search for "Conical-roof tower" reveals a lot of fitting results, in texts as well as pictures. So I would go for that solution. There is also a "cone roof", but that seems to be less common. Also, it seems to be more commonly used for flatter roofs than those found on the towers in question.
Please everybody who considers this as yet unresolved, Google tent/ed roof plus dome. I'm not at my computer to provide further links, but this does seem to be the accepted term, and, speaking as an architectural historian, a perfectly comprehensible one, too, given the age and style of the castle in question.
Mark has now divulged the site in question. There are pictures of these towers on the Web. The roofs are conical in shape. Domed roofs (with cupolas) may be relevant in a different context, but unfortunately not here.
No, I think. The main reason for my opposition to "dome" is that a dome is, as you rightly pointed out, rounded. The roofs at Honberg castle are conical.
Don't you think that why we're all here - trying to help Mark?! A useful link. As you see, it refers to tent roofs, too, in respect of Russian architecture. Essentially a Gothic thing. I would avoid 'tented' since that is used for very modern architecture and would be confusing.
yes, we could. But I'd rather see Mark getting the help he asked us for, and that can apparantly only be achieved by putting the possibilities on the table and having him decide. Are tent roofs and tented roofs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tented_roof ) the same thing, I wonder.
Of course if you have a picture of the tower, you have the option to be more specific than the source text. On the other hand if the picture is also to appear in the translation, then there is no need to be specific. If you Google Haubenturm images, you see all kinds of shapes, but the majority are just rounded, not pointed, which is what I envision when I hear the word "dome" without a descriptor.
the only dome I could find that looks remotely like the roof in question is that of the various Kümbets in Turkey. A search for helmet domes has not come up with anything resembling the Honburg castle tower. And a "helmet roof" seems to be something different altogether again. Do you have any links to illustrate what I am apparantly not grasping?
but it is possible to determine the type of dome from the pictures. It would be a shame to simplify to the point of obliterating the information given in the source, particularly since there is no need to do so.
...could you tell me the difference between a dome and a roof? I always thought domes were hemispheric structures? Shouldn't a dome be bulging outwards?
...to see a picture of the Turm in question. Mark has been asking a lot of questions about a certain region lately, and if we assume that he is still working on that, then the Honberg castle would be the one in question - with its towers looking like this: http://goo.gl/iw0PW If the city council calls it Haubenturm, then that's what they want it called in the translation, I presume. But this is all speculation until Mark clarifies.
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56 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
onion dome
Explanation: I have compared several online descriptions of towers/churches and it seems that a 'Haubenturm' might be the same as a 'Zwiebelturm'.
Elisabeth Kissel Australia Local time: 23:54 Native speaker of: German
Wendy Streitparth Germany Local time: 15:54 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 32
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Dove prion, Dovecote
Explanation: Since there doesn't exist a clear translation for the word Hauben, which refers to a castle, maybe you should consider this a writing mistake. It could be a "Taubenturm", which were commonly built in the shape of towers.
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It must be an onion dome then. Certainly when the term returns several times in your text. I didn't see onion domed towers necessarily in Wuerttemberg, but rather in Russia.
Paul van Zijll Netherlands Local time: 15:54 Native speaker of: Dutch, Spanish
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Asker: I don't think it's a typo as it appears several times in the text like this and when I did a google search there is also a book written in German about this style of German tower.
Explanation: The relevant glossaries all list "conical roof" as "A roof in the shape of an inverted cone atop a cylindrical tower" or something similar, see Link #1. A google search for "Conical-roof tower" reveals a lot of fitting results, in texts as well as pictures. So I would go for that solution. There is also a "cone roof", but that seems to be less common. Also, it seems to be more commonly used for flatter roofs than those found on the towers in question.
peer agreement (net): +1
