Schloss (pl. Schlösser) is a German word for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house; or what in the British Isles would be known as a stately home. Similarly, in Swedish, a related Germanic language, the word slott is normally used for what in English could be either a palace or a castle (instead of words in rarer use such as pa... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss