German Castles, Ghosts & Royalty: Once Upon A Time In Germany... | Meet the Germans | DW Euromaxx

[Music] welcome to else Carson it used to be featured on the back of the $500 mark bill and these days it's a big hit on Instagram not bad for a nearly nine hundred year old castle there are an estimated 20,000 classes in Germany although some look a little worse for wear the weather romantic ruins or fairy tale perfection is your thing you're spoiled for choice here there's even a route called Castle Road that stretches all the way from Mannheim to buy a height and takes you past some 60 castles the glorious schloss neuschwanstein in bavaria is one of the most visited castles in the whole of europe and is even said to have inspired walt disney okay time for a quick language check on a fairy tale sightseeing tour through germany you're probably going to see two different words being used book and schloss in general a Borg is fortified protected by a wall or a moat a schloss is closer to the English word Palace and would have been built as a luxurious residence but some medieval bergman have been converted into schlosser and sometimes the words are used interchangeably even doubt just take both names like class walk ins or Lyngen the Normans were the pioneers when it came to castles in Europe the Germans caught on in the Middle Ages so how can you recognize a German castle in a lineup one clue might be a tall tower in the middle called a bear creed unlike the English keep it was not intended for people to live there it was for observation defense and status palaces then took the reins from around the 16th century and they were all about showing off really Germany looked to France and Italy for aesthetic inspiration in fact ludwig ii of bavaria who was known as the fairytale King decided to build his own version of the Palace of Versailles sadly he ran out of money before his harem Chiemsee palace was finished happens to the best of us Ludwig the does seem to be quite an appetite for royal gossip here in Germany I definitely know more about the British royal family now than I did when I lived in the UK perhaps that's because the Germans no longer have Royals at the Rhone at the end of the First World War all official royal titles and associated legal privileges were abolished however it was permitted that some titles could be merged into the family surnames and that's why we're now able to talk to a real-life count I said phenomenom and dr. Carl graph on a delay her phone answer its can and forced from Stromberg well firstly and fawn ensue this in understand of AIDS or visit sneers of evades phone on soo cuspidor does Hoyt so taiga and craft design now I hope safely and how fervently she had lost if you ask them Amana Familia Felicia then she admitted off tracked deep work in an impersonal suit and silver game as is a phenomena that really film he oughta be uber felishj sittin here behind darkness Knutson Alice Alba on image days I'll mention afternoon but in menorah fashionable it's Kate apart from counts and tourists who else might you find in a castle there are plenty of spooky legend surrounding Germany's castles a popular apparition is the vice of howl or white lady whose appearance was often a thought to signal the imminent death is someone in the family here at Ed's castle it's Agnes who said to haunt the hall the story goes that in the 15th century the counts rather rebellious daughter was supposed to marry the squire upper bounds burg who by all accounts was a bit of a jerk she refused to kiss him at their engagement party how do you think he took about not so well he disappeared for a year and then finally returned to attack the castle Agnes donned her brother's armor and joined the battle but she was killed by her would-be fiance the legend goes that Agnes is ghost is sometimes seen in the castle courtyard after midnight you [Music]

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Length: 4min 15sec (255 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 17 2020