sentences:  If the ruling family was to live there permanently, the mediaeval castle would have to be adapted to more modern requirements, which would end up fully overhauling very nearly all aspects of the then existing building.In other words, the castle was converted from a "Burg" – the customary German word for a castle used as a military fortification – into a "Schloss" – the word used for a palace or a palatial castle.This semantic distinction was one that had arisen in German only over the two foregoing centuries.