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The Wartburg Castle is the place where Martin Luther translated the bible. A fact that should have been mentioned.
#1 is a natural. It ALWAYS is on place #1 because of Disney. 😅
There sure are lots more castles, some of them only fragments are standing. Nonetheless, those might be even more impressive.
Been there a few years ago
Yes and also in 1817 the Wartburgfest which is an important historical event in the process of founding the first German state
And since the recurring theme of this channel, inspired the communists to name a manufacturer of 2 stroke sedans after it.
It's a bot voice video, what do you expect...
Germany is a beautiful country full of fabulous people. I can’t wait to go back. 😊
Was a beautiful country. Learn Arabic before your next visit, you can use it better than German or English.
The number of castles in Germany varies between 25,000 and 35,000 since often there is no differentiating between a castle, a fortress, and a palace: Some buildings are for representation, other are military installations, some are a mix of both. Plus, there are monasteries that look like castles. I have a map under my community tab of my channel with all this buildings in Germany, Belgium, France. These three countries are plastered with medieval buildings. Oh, roughly, one third are ruins, one third are restaurants/hotels/museums, and one third - tadahhh - are inhabited by noble families. Neuschwanstan: It's not even old, damnit! It was opened in the late 1800s! It was never really used by King Ludwig, and it had electricity right from the start. A massive tourist trap, don't go there, it's not worth it. Also, last year, an American tourist killed two other Americans there ... But actually, Walt Disney visited Neuschwanstein several times and made it the blueprint for his Sleeping beauty castle. If you wish to visit a REAL castle, go see Eltz. I've been there myself.
"Stating that Germany has a total of 25,000 castles. Germany has population of about 83.2 million, so that's about one castle for every 3,300 people. Some articles also speak of 20,000, but either way, that's way higher than. the number of McDonald's locations in the entire US, which as of this year is 13,520."
Just leaving this here.
And yes i slept in a castle a few times, once in a round corner tower and with a "Schlossgespenst" (a castle ghost which was totally real), and although it's technically not a castle but a Napoleonic era fortification our student bar was in one of the bastion towers.
You should also look into King Ludwig II of Bavaria, his story is really wild and there are conspiracy theories and even secret societies surrounding them to this day.
25,000 castles in Germany alone?! 😂 The Czech Republic is the country with the highest density of castles in the world (maybe with the exception of Wales - but that's not independent country) and it has "only" 924 castles including castle ruins or castles, forts and fortresses that have been converted into chateaus and if you include objects built as the original chateaus you get to about 2,000 buildings and ruins in total. Germany is 4.5 times bigger than the Czech Republic, so it should have at least 4,158 castles and including chateaus about 9,000 buildings in total to have at least the same density of castles as the Czech Republic. 25,000 is either total nonsense or they have declared every private hacienda as a castle... 😉😁
@@toruvalejo6152That 20’000 number comes from a private association (Deutsche Burgenvereinigung) that has been trying to catalog all ‘castles’ in Germany. They published that 20’000 number a couple of years ago, adding they had not finished their work yet (which might be the origin of the 25’000 number as an estimate).
In German they use the terms ‘Burgen, Schlösser und Herrenhäuser’ which can be translated as castles, palaces and manor houses. This probably can be defined as all residences of the nobility. Castles (or Burgen in German) can generally be defined as fortified residences of members of the nobility, whereas palaces and manor houses dispense with the fortification aspect. There are also a relatively small number of medieval fortresses that belonged to associations like the Knights Templar, a military order or fortified monasteries, which would not fall into the category of private residences.
Finally, this 20’000 number includes all ruins, with sometimes as little as remains of foundations, as well as documented historical ‘castles’ even if no remains are visible any more.
@toruvalejo6152 There are about 20 castles, palaces and ruins within a 20km radius of me here*. Lake Constance Radolfzell
@@toruvalejo6152 Belgium is also up there when it comes to castle density
The majority of them are not castles they are country houses. A castle has to have a laird and significant defences and fortifications to be a castle. Not exactly hard to invade when you can walk right up to the front door. They're pretty much fancy country houses.
Both castles with the mountains that you liked Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau are on opposite hills about 1km apart. It was built by father and son
It's certainly not 1km, the route for pedestrians was around 3km last time I was there.
@@janchovanec8624 i wasn't talking about any route. I just meant like a straight line and how close they were. And even if we are talking about a route I definitely didn't walk for 3km when I was there.
It is more like 3-4 km distance on foot. 2km direct air distance.
Eltz Castle has been in the family for 800 years and there is a short report about it in English from DW.
Yepp, the current Baron is a surprisingly down to Earth guy in all his interviews. They don't live there constantly but they keep the castle in very good repair.
UK castle's are cool too. My home city is Edinburgh, its castle was built on a dormant volcano
Unfortunately, a famous German castle was not mentioned in the video: Braunfels Castle in the town of the same name called Braunfels. As a Texan, you might be interested to know that settlers from Braunfels founded the town of New Braunfels in Texas.
I‘ve left a link to it in a comment above… it’s the less comical "brother" of Neuschwanstein, only an hour drive away from Frankfurt/Main.
BTw, nearby, in Weilburg you can canoe on the Lahn river through a tunnel, crossing a castle’s mountain, something that gets quite memorable too…
Greetz from a Hessian :)
I live 15 minutes away from Braunfels and it never accured to me that this place is the reason for New Braunfels.
Learning something everyday
We have some great castles in Australia .
Sand castles .
Like ancient America had many fortresses - Super Fortresses 😜
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I know you are a car guy first but in East Germany there is Jagdschloss Augustusburg in Saxony. Last year they had their 50th anniversary of motorcycle meetings. It always happens in January!! Even with the Iron wall (curtain)up bikers from around the world met there. I was there as a child and a teenager, my great grandmother lived there. Look up their stories. The most dedicated and hardcore bikers go there during winter months, just amazing 😮 love your videos
In Heidelberg were the headquarters of the US Army in Europe from 1952 to 2012. I think that might be part of the reason, why the castle and the city are both fairly well known in the US for such a "small" city. Also, the pictures in the video don't really do it justice. The castle is above the historic old town next to the river Neckar with the old bridge. Looks way more impressive than in the video.
There is an interesting thing about the word castle in German. We are using two different words for two different styles of castles: “Schloss” and “Burg”. While “Burg” is used for a castle in a sense of a military fortress, “Schloss” is more like a prestigious palace. But there’re so many types of castles that the transition is fluent. Sometimes they were rebuilt or restructured and became the opposite. The early ones were intended to be a safe place for a noble and his peasants. But while the home of the nobles had to be more and more impressive and prestigious military needs increased. After a while they split up the concepts of a luxury home and a military fortress and a new word appeared: “Festung”, literally fortress. And at this point a “Burg” was something like an old concept. “Schloss” is used until today.
In our region are many castles. It’s about 20 minutes to the castles of Manderscheid (Manderscheider Burgen), 15 minutes to Castle Bruch (Burg Bruch), 50 minutes to Cochem Castle (Reichsburg Cochem) and something about 1 hour to Eltz Castle (Burg Eltz). The last ones were in the video. There’re also ruins of more castles around.
And I was born about 100 km (62 miles) away at the river Rhine, a region with hundreds of castles like Altenwied Castle (Burg Altenwied), Altwied Castle (Burg Altwied), Neuwied Castle (Schloss Neuwied), Castle Linz (Burg Linz), Sayn Castle (Burg Sayn), Hammerstein Castle (Burg Hammerstein) or the famous Marksburg. Also the Drachenfels (literally Dragon’s Rock) with the Drachenburg Castle (Schloss Drachenburg) from the video is nearby.
For me it’s an absolutely normal view to see cars around castles, just the normal way to get there. And many castles are an interesting spot to go to. Many of them have restaurants, hotels, museums or public resting areas within beautiful parks. And there are also castle like monasteries around, like the Himmerord Abbey (Kloster Himmerod) or Maria Laach Abbey (Abtei Maria Laach).
Thank you so much for all this information. I’m learning German so this is incredibly helpful. I love etymology in any language, but Germany’s is fascinating.
Thanks for the mention of Slovakia! We have Spišský hrad and Smolenice
There was a big US-Garrison in Heidelberg back in time, this might be why you have heard of it. I encountered something similar when i was in the states, talking with people about where i am from. I was surprised how many knew Ansbach but its logic, there are two garrisons nearby 😅.
Its really amazing, the beautiful structures Europeans were able to build in such difficult to reach locations such a long time ago
I think the trick was in their transgenerational thinking, every lord building further on their mighty noble family and a mighty building to keep also future generations safe and mighty.
I stayed hundreds of nights and days in a castle. Castles are so common here that my family actually rented one as a holiday home for 30 years. (and we are not rich) ok it was not big, but it was a real one, from the 1600s, with towers, a moat (with water!) and a bridge. it was a bit in disrepair, thats why the rent was very cheap and 3 generations of us visited as often as possible (we also shared the costs between the extended family members. I loved it as a child, but we had to let it go when the renovation costs were too high and the owner had to sell it to somebody with millions to fix it.
it looked Exactly like the 1st white one you showed, except much smaller, about 1/3rd the size edit, just saw more footage , make that 1/8th the size.
we went there on school holidays and often just the weekends. you could play in the forests and on the water, but the land around was public grounds, open to anyone, basically a park.
we kids, told many a ghost story on those stays, to scare our little sisters, and it had plenty of nooks and crannies to explore, 4 cellars and at least 5 attics... but other than that it was just a normal, yet very big house, but old fashioned, without modern comforts. we still had to use coal and wood to heat it, and the bathroom situation was never developed beyond the 1950s.
it was incredible fun. as a child I didn't know how lucky we were.
Have been to the Heidelberg Castle a few years ago, true that you better make an appointment for a guided tour, but the front garden is open to the general public and that alone alreads is something very special, since, though it is not shown in this video, you have a tremendously beautiful view over pretty much all oover the city of Heidelberg and the neighbouring river....it's a sight you HAVE to see at least once in your life, nothing will ever come close.
I like to imagine that this very scenic was the inspiration for the famous german folklore song "Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren" by Heinz Maria Lins
I stood below Reichsburg Cochem just a couple of weeks ago for the first time. I was on a hiking vacation in the Mosel and Eifel area, and one day I hiked the valley of the Endert river which feeds into the Mosel pretty much right below the Reichsburg. What a fascinating view! Sadly it was already very late afternoon, so no more time to visit the castle itself - after more than 15 miles of hiking I was probably too wasted to do anything else anyway. But the view of the Reichsburg sitting on top of the river and the town was a great finish of the whole day. Next time I'm there, I'll have to take a hike around the hills where you can look at the castle, the town and the whole valley from above which is a view I only saw from the road for seconds and nearly in the dark on my way out. Must be great to see it from a hiking trail AND have the time to take it all in.
Its flooded now unfortunately
That's cool that even the Castle in Schwerin is in the Video, it's 35km away from me.
all of europe is full of old castles
@iwrocker Else Castle was chosen as the filming location for the TV series Carnival Row.
Watch a video about Malbork Castle in Poland, it is the largest brick castle in the world and is open to visitors. Visiting the entire castle and all available locations along with the museum collections takes about 6 hours.
If you someday want to travel Germany and vist a few castle here and there, i highly recommend the middle rhine valley. Beautiful section of the rhine river which meanders through the landscape surrounded by castles, vineyards and cliffs, and vineyards on cliffs ;) And the best part is, that you can take this route anyway if you want to travel from north to south or the other way around
I stayed for the weekend in Carcassonne castlated town, for a kid it was as close as possible to living in king arthurs castle, I will never forget that weekend,we were invited to stand guard two times during that weekend wearing chainmail and trus and spears, just awesome,if ever you visit southern france I strongly suggest you visit this truly historical castleated town
Also Austria, France, Britain, Scotland and more have very beautiful castles
10.49 - this is absolutely stunning :) Its like fancier version of Hogwart :D
The list is kind of a mixture. Some are castles, some are palaces, some are something in between. Drachenburg at 6:00 was built by a rich man in the late 19th century, so it's more like a millionaire's estate of its time. Neuschwanstein falls into the Romantic era with Ludwig bringing Bavaria close to bankruptcy because of his fairy tale wishes. Hohenzollern one of the mightiest royal branches in Europe, family of the last German Emperors. Probably only topped by the Austrian Habsburger (look for Austrian castles/palaces, they are top notch, too). Nevertheless there are plenty of castles and palaces in Germany. Just take a look at a map of the Holy Roman Empire at any date and you will see, how divided the whole German area was into seperate prinicipalities and almost every duke, king, whatever wanted to have his own palace. Then one for their wives. And if the realm was divided into seperate branches between the children, everyone got their palace and so on :D
And the same goes for castles. Especially the rivers. Following the Rhine you'll see one every few kilometers. Most of the time you'll see another castle standing on the top tower of one of them.
You may be thinking of the Heidelberg printing press!
Cool. Last year, on the return back home from my vacation to Austria, we took a little detour and stopped in Southern Germany. There, I saw the Hohenschwangau Castle and the Neuschwanstein Castle in real life. :)
Love Your Channel and that You are so open to different Cultures
Burg Altne is nice. We went here for overnight stay with elementary school class in 1991. Its nice to visit occasionally for me because I live in Dortmund. Around the corner of my in 30 minutes walking distance we've got our local castle Haus Dellwig, which I really like to visit.
But alone in the Ruhr area existed more than 400 castles and a lot of them survived the times, of course some are long gone and some just are ruins.
On Burg Altena there is a nice Restaurant where we used to have dinner with my brother. Schnitzel there is awesome!
I am pretty sure you can see Hohenzollern Castle from Lichtenstein Castle with bare eye. They are not far away from each other.
Hi, Burg Altena is in my neighboring town. We also stayed there overnight when I was at school. It's definitely an experience. But what's even better is that once a year there is a medieval festival in Burg Altena and the town of Altena, with historical food, music, games and so on. What would of course also be a highlight for you is the beer. The cherry flavoerd beer is the best. Afterwards a good portion of Gulasch from the castle, a dream. 😂
I occasionally see Schloss Neuschwanstein when I'm on a business trip from my work. It's also nice but not my favorite, but the landscape is amazing.
So if you are lucky enough to come to Germany, there is a lot worth seeing.
Best regards from a car guy and fan from German. 😉
Burg Altena and many other castles are youth hostels with very fair pricing. I've never been, but have definitely thought it over.
Could be something to check out if you're across the pond sometime!
We do have a LOT of castles ;D
Just for perspective... I'm living in a small countryside town (pop 35k) near the Dutch border and there are at least 10 castles just on the German side in a circle of 30min drive from me.
I had a tour in the Lichtenstein Castle. The reason for it to be on the massive cliff, was for defensive purposes and view.
There you could already see MILES away an attacking army, and beeing so high up, it was very difficult to attack / easy to defend.
Welcome to Germany 🍻
I had groan up in one and I can tell you it's fun!! Ok Neu Schwanstein castle looks cool and it is cool! But you have to understand that there are only 15 full build rooms in it, because after the daeth of king Ludwig they don't build it further!! To describe it like this: completely overcrowded and not enough to see inside! That's why I recommend visiting Linderhof Castle, also built by King Ludwig. It's smaller but fully developed! What you see there is just wow!! Above all, Linderhof Castle is not as well known as the other King Ludwig castles!!
Burg Eltz is amazing. It is built on a rather small rock outcrop. The limited space required the owners to build higher than usual. It got legally split in 3 parts due to inheritance and the 3 resulting branches of the family continued to live on the castle side by side peacefully for centuries. The landscape of the Neckar river valley near Burg Eltz is extremely beautiful.
It's the Moselle, not the Neckar.
The most remarkable fact about Eltz is that it has been the property of one single family through 1200 years of history. An ancestor of the contemporary owners built it.
Hohenzollern & Neuschwanstein are my fave 2 castles in the world! Simply breathtaking! ♥
7.33 - looks like something made with Lego :)
Hello and thank you for the contribution. Check out pictures of Trifels Castle in the Palatinate Forest. A fortress where King Richard the Lionheart stayed until the ransom was paid.
9:30 is the Imperial Castle of Cochem. Pretty cool. I live there. Being a kid my bed was standing in a way that I could see the castle through the window.
My college was in a small town castle, but I haven't stayed there overnight 😊. When I was a kid, we stayed overnight multiple times camping in sleeping bags in various ruins with our Scout organization.
2:48 - You can go on a wonderful hiking holiday with the family, because in this low mountain range there are many small villages with youth hostels where you can stay cheaply and then move on to the next village the next day. All places are approx. 20 km away.
Since before Roman age the builders knew many fancy tools made from wood and iron and ropes, they knew many types of constrution cranes. thats how those very tall structures were build. We sometimes forget that we dont need electric machines to build exeptional constructions :) I think the mechanical and phisical ideas behind wooden tools with ropes were the same as behind medieval siege machines.
I live in Germany, but I am from Portugal / UK... nothing compares with Palácio da Pena in Sintra or the feeling of Glastonbury Tor... All in all, yes we in Europe are surrounded by amazing Castles, Palaces and centuries old amazing architecture literally everywhere, Germany is amazing in medieval architecture btw, France also, everywhere really... yes with cars these days lol, but who does not like to see a Rolls-Royce, Bugatti or a super Porsche or Ferrari or Lamborghini in the streets of an old town (or even an old Fiat or VW for that matter)? ...we're going electric now anyway, plus we have high speed trains hehe.. bit by bit we do modernize, look at Rotterdam, London city, Parque das Nações in Lisbon or La Défense in Paris, etc etc... hehe... Time is a wonderful thing right?
There is no place on Earth where you can see time in your daily life as you do in Europe!
The Family that lives in Burg Eltz is has done some interviews (somewhere on CZcams, i am sure) that points out how hoffifyingly expensive the upkeep of these places are - no matter if you have a bit more more money than other people. That is why Burg Eltz is open to the public as well, to bring in some much needed funds (and of course to share the historic place with people), while the Family lives in a third of the Castle.
9:36 I think many people have a picture just like this, because there is a nice bridge to stand on. I've been here many times. Cochem is very popular as a family vacation.
Castle Hülchrath near Düsseldorf is nice
As to the topic of castles renovated and redecorated as hotels - it depends :) You can stay in 16-19 century palaces with realy elegant and elaborate rooms - baroque-ish design with a dose of fin-de-siecle gold vibe :) but you can also check those medieval fortresses 12-15 centuries which offer fans of medieval reconstructions more primitive, stark, stern design and decor with stone and wood and iron. Lots of iron - like iron lamps and swords over the mantle and such. :) You know this Game of Thrones vibe :) I've been to both kinds and I love both kinds of hotels.
Actually "Castle" ist splited in its meaning, there is "Schloss" and there is "Burg". A Schloss is kind of for representing yourself and receive guests at fancy events, a Burg is more like a defense building to protect yourself inside during conflicts. Of course some times this is combined.
They say the last one, Neuschwanstein, is a must visit. They tell that to all tourists, so when you actually visit it there will be thousands of tourists in line waiting to get in. I guess it's kinda pretty. But there are over 20'000 other castles in Germany. I'm sure you'll find an interesting one somewhere else. I live in Saxony and there are at least 3 castles within biking range from my home. There are like a dozen more within daytrip range. We have castles absolutely everywhere.
Take a boat-trip from Wiesbaden to Köln, you will see also a lot of old an wonderful castles.
Great vid, more of these, please!
you might wanna take a look at burghausen castle, which holds the world record of the longest castle in the world. i am working in the old town of burghausen and still like the view at it every day
I've been to two music festivals in Castles. We once rented an entire castle with a group of live action role playing people. And I spent 3 hours in the dungeon with water and bread! Hahahaha! It's always interesting in places like this!
I am not a castle expert either, but what I find interesting with some castles is that you can literally see how they developed. It starts with one very old building, then some hundered years later, it expanded and then expanded again. And again. I also find ruins of old castles very interesting, those make my mind wander. I have once stayed overnight in a "kind of a castle" in Sweden, and it was somewhat spooky. It didn´t really help that they gave us the "ghost tour" before dinner. Now, I AM a sceptic and don´t really believe in ghosts, but those mighty and old buildings makes me doubt... it is a very ambivalent thing. :)
I am from Schwerin and i can tell you that the Schwerin Castle is beautiful and is surrounded by a huge Garden. If you have the chance to see it, do it :D
We also have a nice Downtown right next to the castle.
It is totally worth a visit :)
Love it when you check out my homeland :D CHEERS from Stuttgart!
I am Czech and my secondary school building was a chateau built in 1550's. It was really cold in there, even in summer and the draught was really annoying in the winter. The school didn't have enough money for the heating or new windows as it is a historic building and theredore subject to very strict regulations.
Burg Altena is only a few km from my home, it is in Northrhine - Westphalia in the part of Westphalia called "Sauerland". The locals say, that it is the "land of the thousand mountains". Sometimes the Burg Altena is illuminetad by different lights.
Nearby in Hagen or better Hohenlimburg there is the "Schloss Hohenlimburg" and in Winter before Christmas there is a "Weihnachtsmarkt" or a Christmas Market in the castle and you feel the soul of the historic times, when you drink a hot wine (Glühwein).😅
I have slept in the "Kloster Eberbach" it is not a castle but a bit similar.
The school in the little Swedish town where I grew up was situated next to a small castle, that had (in the 60s or 70s, I guess) been painted in brown and orange and turned into a kindergarten. It always felt a little mysterious and intriguing.
Stolzenfels Castle 🏰 is nice
We slept at the Ehrenburg in Brodenbach last year. I can only recommend it to everyone.
Burg Rheinfels is also a romantic hotel over the Rhine river.
You should also check out guédelon castle. They are building it with the use of old techniques so they can study them.
Neuschwanstein is easily the most famous castle. But it's also a touristtrap at this point. There might be castles out there that give you a better visting experience.
The inside is dull and a waste of money.
That's some awesome history right there.
Even in Finland are some castles, biggest ones still standing are Turun linna, Olavin linna, Suomen linna ja Hämeen linna
I support you in your travel-analysis: big cities are nice, but especially the smaller towns show the unique atmosphere of a country and as far as Germany is concerned also the historic architecture, which vanished in larger cities mostly - due to WWII bombing, car-friendly city planning and also earlier destructions of war. So I would always recommend, even if you want to visit the hot spots and vibrant cities, to see the
Neuschwanstein is not a Castle, its a built in the 19th century as a private Fantasy Building of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.
Glad you like my country
Thousands? There are between 18.000-25.000 (depending on how you count) castles, palaces and other historic fortifications in Germany (not counting WW1 and WW2 ones), some are ruins, others are privately held and some you can visit, and some you can rent.
Krickenbeck Castle 🏰 is nice
In Germany are more than 25000 Castles , 😊
Castles or Castles AND Chateaus AND manors? 😉
there are more castles in germany then mc donalds in the US
I live in Bonn, and when I look outside the window, I look directly up to Godesburg Castle :D it is basically just a classic round tower and some ruins around, but it is a nice view. Also Drachenburg Castle mentioned in this video is very close.
At minute 4:00 the tower you were pointing at is Residential tower of the castle. This is where the nobleman/ woman lived with his/ her family.
*Well, there are a few castles, which definitely should have been on this list.......Schloss Herrenchiemsee [ Old Palace (Herrenchiemsee Abbey), New Palace ], Schloss Linderhof [ Linderhof Palace ], Schloss Nymphenburg [ Nymphenburg Palace ], Würzburger Residenz [ Würzburg Residence ], Nürnberger Burg [ Nuremberg Castle ], .............*
ik its not a castle but cologne cathedral is simply stunning and one place I really want to go see one day
did you know, that in Germany there are more castles, than there are McDonalds in the USA?
Schwerin is my hometown. For me, of course, it's the most beautiful castle at all, even more beautiful than Neuschwanstein where I've also been several times.
I always have my problems with Neu-Schwanstein shown as a castle together with real old castles like the Warthburg ect.
Neu-Schwanstein is just a play castle that was built by a looney Bavarian king in the late 1800s. Like kids build a Playmobil castle today. Just that he thought he can do whatever he wants, and the population has to pay for it. And when it was ready, he drowned hinself in the lake you see below the castle. Not the worst solution, IMHO.
A lot of people go to Neuschwanstein but miss Hohenschwangau.
They're right next to each other but Hohenschwangau is less famous (They're located like 500 meters apart).
Hohenschwangau is way prettier inside than Neuschwanstein.
As a kid our school trips mostly gone to a castle or another historic place. One time we went to a place called "druidenstein" what can be translated to druid stone. It was a big stony hill on wich in the 9th century the priests held there gatherings and also sacrificed humans.
When you grow up in the middle of so much history it's amazing
By the way there are more than 25.000 castles in Germany
If you ever come over here, I´ll give you a ride. Some of those castles are in my area. 🙂
You may have heard of the Heidelberg dueling scar!
My first wifes grandfather was a "Knight of the Garter", which meant my wife and I could stay at Windsor Castle.
3:56 It actually was built around 1800, and designed to look like an old ruin.
I work in Cochem and the City with the castle is realy beautiful. The Elz castle is only 20 km away from cochem. In this area there are more nice places to visit. The Genoveva castle Mayen or the most beautiful village Monreal.
I just visited Neuschwanstein a few weeks ago......in Japan! Near Himeji (mostly known for their impressive original Japanese castle....) is a kinda weird theme park named Taiyo Park, with a 2/3 scale replica of Neuschwanstein....
Never seen the real thing though, even when I have been in that area 😅
When you for example compare German castles to Castles on the British Island, you see what is ment with the saying "German Castles are build for Kings, English Castles are Build for War". German Castles are Mostly that fairytale, "Disney" style, they are beautifull, British Castles in Wales, Scotland or England are Fortresses they are tough (also beautifull in there own way) and build to withstand Fights like there where a lot on the british Island!
Neuschwanstein was essentially a vanity project, as castles of that kind were quite outdated. The trend had shifted towards palaces with vast gardens to symbolize wealth, as "modern" weaponry had rendered fortress-style castles virtually obsolete.
crazy thing is that little denmark have over 300 castles where 34 is open to public
You should look at castles in Luxembourg, it's a smal country with a lot of castles
The dreamlike fairytale castle Neuschwanstein can be seen at the beginning of every Disney film and is the famous home of Cinderella.
I didn't spend the night in a castle or anything like that, but we did spend the night in our local church when we were doing our conformity lessons. So sleeping on a cold church floor at night, with moonlight shining through the large church windows. That was a bit spooky. But also kind of cool.
Only the next morning, of course, was chaos, especially when the girls were nagging because there was no shower and so on in the church. On the day, in fine weather, we walked up to the church tower. Our deacon then set the big church bell in motion by hand. It was so loud that the floor vibrated.
Compared to France (over 40,000 castles), we only have over 26,000, but it is estimated that around 14 of these were reserved solely for the king or the emperor.
In other words, as a residence.
6:03 Oh Dragon-Castle in Königswinter. I was there in 2021. Inside is very cool. Many wood walls and different rooms (for example a salon or a room for wedding).
I live near Hohenzollern and Lichtenstein Castle. You should come to Europe and visit some of the places :)
Hello from France. The Disney Castles are inspired by thé travel in world war one, when Walt was driver in Croix Rouge (Red Cross) in France. Hé design with inspiration of Château de Neuschwanstein but more by the Châteaux de la Loire in France 🇫🇷 Have a good night from thé most beautiful country, La France 😉
Weren’t the Bavarians French allies sometimes? So, Ludwig might have got some inspiration from *Le Grande Nation* - mainly to fool the Americans 🤣
lived 7 month in an archi. moated castle ( hope is the right translation it is a castle with water around) but it was scary to be allone there at nights.....not only fun^^