8:30 In old houses (like the one I'm writing this in!) and also in castles, the ceilings were made of wooden beams, not concrete. So when the wooden roof truss burned, the fire ate its way down from one floor to the next until only the walls were left standing. This applies more to the residential castle, which was the representative and cosy part of a castle complex when peace prevailed. In the event that the castle was besieged, there were more uncomfortable shelters, which of course had brick vaults as floor ceilings.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Castles like that are also situated on top of a hill, which will have lots of WIND to fan the flames ... and you also have to consider that you have to haul the water up from a well ... and a tiny bucket brigade wont have enough water to save such a large structure.
There is a problem with English on this one, a translation problem. Burg = Castle Schloss = Castle Palast = Palace. A lot of Schloss Buildings you see here are translated and listed as Castles, although they are not a defensive "Burg", but just a fancy Residence.
We have 30,000 castles... The video does not show the most beautiful or interesting ones... but simply randomly selected ones... there are many more beautiful
btw. the 'School castle' of the Amazon Prime series 'Maxton Hall' (a German series which had the largest first week global viewership for an international title in Prime Video history - in over 120 countries Nr. 1) is the 'Marienburg Schloss' near Hannover/state of Niedersachsen (lower saxony). The castle in the 'Electric Callboy - 'Everytime we touch' - video' (which many (music-)reactors know) is 'Schloss Rothestein' in the state of Hessen - apropos: in that state is also the original 'Frankenstein castle' were really for a long time a Frankenstein dynasty lived as well as an Alchemist seeking for the Elixir of Life - which inspired Mary Shelby for her famous novel 'Frankenstein' - she traveled that region back then and picked up those stories) ...
Castles arent about the "exciting exterior" ... and to make them SOLID ... you dont do fancy, you do SOLID and SIMPLE. The fancy is on the inside ... which none of these videos show.
6:40 It's not a painting. The castle looks exactly like that. The term castle in its original meaning describes the fortified home of a nobleman and is in its original sense only applicable to medieval structures, not to structures from later periods. What they had in common was that they tended to be rather small, all were fortified and they were home of a family. Larger structures from the medieval period exist as well, but these are technically speaking not castles in the original sense. They were military fortresses, not the home of a noble familiy. The size of the castle also directly depended on the wealth and status of the family - kings and the highest ranking nobles like dukes and counts had way more ressources and therefore larger castles. However - nobles with that kind of ressources were few in number which means that the vast majority of castles was small in size, usually not more than a fortified house surrounded by a wall. Many of the medieval castles were also built out of wood, not stone - wood was a much more easily available ressource. Unfortunately it is also not that resistant to time which means that none of these wooden castles exist anymore. Most of the massive elaborate fancy structures are not really castles at all - most of them are not fortified and not even from the medieval period. "castles" like Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein were built in the 19th century and never served any military function, and neither were they built for defensive purposes or were home to a nobleman. In German we have different words for these buildings: - Burg is the word used for the original medieval type; this is what english people orignally called a castle - Schloss is used for the more elaborate structures, mostly from later periods (like Schloss Neuschwanstein); unfortunately the english language lacks a proper translation so most of these are also called castles even though they are technically not castles - Festung; these are purely military structures and tend to be larger than castles. The english translation is fortress. The origins of the word castle date back to an Old English/Old Saxon word btw: Castel. However that word is not originally germanic, it is actually a latin loan word: Castellum is the diminutive form of castrum (fort).
13:20 Eltz Castle has been in the family since it was built and has therefore been in the family for 850 years. This castle is not far from my home and I have already visited it - parts of it are open to the public.
Here is a guided tour from the current owner and a video in English for you. Post with link unfortunately blocked you'll have to search for it yourself on YT.
For avoidance of any doubt: What you are calling castles, we have different words for it: Schloss (Residence or palace) and Burg (fortifications) and mixes in between. Schwerin would never be considered a castle in German (although it was a fortification in earlier times), it is now a Schloss. If it has more ornamentation it loses it’s fortification abilities. The buildings you prefer are then tje palaces.
As someone has said already, that's quite a random selection for "most beautiful ones". There's a video on UA-cam, "German Castles (and palaces) by Dr. Ludwig, which gives a MUCH better overview about castles in Germany and without a judgement of "best" or "most beautiful", which is always in the eye of the beholder anyway :').
Heidelberg Castle was struck bei lightning to the Ammunition tower twice. It is the tower front right (the big one). In its state after the last strike till today. It is build out of red sandstone from the river valley near by. The residenz was than build to Mannheim and this one goes to ruins. But it has a long and rich history and was one of the palatine residenz to elect the emporer of the holy roman empire.Once also a prison for the pope (was imprisoned there). At Wiki you can find an article about heidelberg castle if you interested.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American jep. And the french did the rest. The tower was blown up by French soldiers in 1693 during the War of the Palatinate Succession after a mine blast in 1689 failed to have any effect. The mighty wall shell still rests on the rubble cone from that time. When it was blown up, the joint material proved to be more resistant than the red sandstone from which the tower was built. In Wiki there is a photo from air. On the right side this is this tower. And the other big fat tower left seen in this photo is the tower where a theater took place on top. The Walls where 7 meter thick.
3:40 The "Wartburg" is the castle where Martin Luther translated the Bible from latin into german ... so the ordinary people could finally read it themselves and "decide themselves".
In 2000 they started building a castle with the methods of medieval times (~1200) in GUEDELON, France, and there is a documentary series called "secrets of the castle" (IIRC), which explains all of the processes used to create the castle ... from masonry to geometry to woodworking (they built a working mill powered by a water wheel out of wood) to tile making for the roofs to rope making to the making of the paints (from pigments) used in it ... and so on. It is 5 or maybe even 6 parts of ~1 hour, well worth the watch if you want to know how these things were done in the past.
Castles (the defensive ones) arent "bomb proof" ... because they are from a time before planes and "bomb explosives". At best they are "proof" against cannons/trebuchets ... but such walls arent limited to castles. Many cities have the remnants of medieval city walls, because Germany is the country everyone needs to go through when they want to wage war in europe ... and thus these cities were targets to PLUNDER. A solid wall discourages that. There was this "30 years war" between catholics and evengalical nations, which raged through Germany in the 17th century.
3:35 the source video is not only highly arbitrary but very uninformative too. e.g. they give some background info to their #15 Glücksburg castle but omit in their #14 Wartburg castle, the most important info of all. Wartburg castle was the place where Martin Luther hid himself and translated the Bible into German. had he been captured by agents of his old church or the emperor our lives today and the landscape of religion would probably look very different and this includes all the Catholics in the world, not just the Protestants.
The problem with "replacing your roof every 20 years" is that you use the wrong materials (and probably geometry/construction), because americans like to BUY CHEAP and then RUN EXPENSIVE ... which is a mindset that is also favored due to americans MOVING HOUSE EVERY FEW YEARS. A bad cultural tradition IMO.
8:30 In old houses (like the one I'm writing this in!) and also in castles, the ceilings were made of wooden beams, not concrete. So when the wooden roof truss burned, the fire ate its way down from one floor to the next until only the walls were left standing. This applies more to the residential castle, which was the representative and cosy part of a castle complex when peace prevailed. In the event that the castle was besieged, there were more uncomfortable shelters, which of course had brick vaults as floor ceilings.
Makes sense!
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American More castles and palaces!!! ua-cam.com/video/3FKUQa0Vniw/v-deo.htmlsi=S8-aBGkaKTU0hUp6
Thanks!
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Castles like that are also situated on top of a hill, which will have lots of WIND to fan the flames ... and you also have to consider that you have to haul the water up from a well ... and a tiny bucket brigade wont have enough water to save such a large structure.
There is a problem with English on this one, a translation problem.
Burg = Castle
Schloss = Castle
Palast = Palace.
A lot of Schloss Buildings you see here are translated and listed as Castles, although they are not a defensive "Burg", but just a fancy Residence.
Love your german content!
Burg = Fortress or castle - For Kings and knights
Schloss = Palace or castle - Kings and nobleman's residence:
We have 30,000 castles... The video does not show the most beautiful or interesting ones... but simply randomly selected ones... there are many more beautiful
Theres a video of Burg Eltz called
"Eltz Castle in Germany: Would you like to live here?" by DW Travel.
Worth a watch...
btw. the 'School castle' of the Amazon Prime series 'Maxton Hall' (a German series which had the largest first week global viewership for an international title in Prime Video history - in over 120 countries Nr. 1) is the 'Marienburg Schloss' near Hannover/state of Niedersachsen (lower saxony). The castle in the 'Electric Callboy - 'Everytime we touch' - video' (which many (music-)reactors know) is 'Schloss Rothestein' in the state of Hessen - apropos: in that state is also the original 'Frankenstein castle' were really for a long time a Frankenstein dynasty lived as well as an Alchemist seeking for the Elixir of Life - which inspired Mary Shelby for her famous novel 'Frankenstein' - she traveled that region back then and picked up those stories) ...
Castles arent about the "exciting exterior" ... and to make them SOLID ... you dont do fancy, you do SOLID and SIMPLE. The fancy is on the inside ... which none of these videos show.
6:40 It's not a painting. The castle looks exactly like that.
The term castle in its original meaning describes the fortified home of a nobleman and is in its original sense only applicable to medieval structures, not to structures from later periods. What they had in common was that they tended to be rather small, all were fortified and they were home of a family. Larger structures from the medieval period exist as well, but these are technically speaking not castles in the original sense. They were military fortresses, not the home of a noble familiy.
The size of the castle also directly depended on the wealth and status of the family - kings and the highest ranking nobles like dukes and counts had way more ressources and therefore larger castles.
However - nobles with that kind of ressources were few in number which means that the vast majority of castles was small in size, usually not more than a fortified house surrounded by a wall. Many of the medieval castles were also built out of wood, not stone - wood was a much more easily available ressource. Unfortunately it is also not that resistant to time which means that none of these wooden castles exist anymore.
Most of the massive elaborate fancy structures are not really castles at all - most of them are not fortified and not even from the medieval period. "castles" like Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein were built in the 19th century and never served any military function, and neither were they built for defensive purposes or were home to a nobleman.
In German we have different words for these buildings:
- Burg is the word used for the original medieval type; this is what english people orignally called a castle
- Schloss is used for the more elaborate structures, mostly from later periods (like Schloss Neuschwanstein); unfortunately the english language lacks a proper translation so most of these are also called castles even though they are technically not castles
- Festung; these are purely military structures and tend to be larger than castles. The english translation is fortress.
The origins of the word castle date back to an Old English/Old Saxon word btw: Castel. However that word is not originally germanic, it is actually a latin loan word: Castellum is the diminutive form of castrum (fort).
13:20 Eltz Castle has been in the family since it was built and has therefore been in the family for 850 years.
This castle is not far from my home and I have already visited it - parts of it are open to the public.
Hard to believe. 850 years!
Here is a guided tour from the current owner and a video in English for you.
Post with link unfortunately blocked
you'll have to search for it yourself on YT.
Thanks - I will check it out. So weird youtube blocks youtube links. lol.
For avoidance of any doubt: What you are calling castles, we have different words for it: Schloss (Residence or palace) and Burg (fortifications) and mixes in between. Schwerin would never be considered a castle in German (although it was a fortification in earlier times), it is now a Schloss. If it has more ornamentation it loses it’s fortification abilities. The buildings you prefer are then tje palaces.
So much to learn. Thanks.
As someone has said already, that's quite a random selection for "most beautiful ones". There's a video on UA-cam, "German Castles (and palaces) by Dr. Ludwig, which gives a MUCH better overview about castles in Germany and without a judgement of "best" or "most beautiful", which is always in the eye of the beholder anyway :').
Heidelberg Castle was struck bei lightning to the Ammunition tower twice. It is the tower front right (the big one). In its state after the last strike till today. It is build out of red sandstone from the river valley near by. The residenz was than build to Mannheim and this one goes to ruins. But it has a long and rich history and was one of the palatine residenz to elect the emporer of the holy roman empire.Once also a prison for the pope (was imprisoned there). At Wiki you can find an article about heidelberg castle if you interested.
Did it have ammo it when it was struck?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Yes full of ammo, explosive powder and so on.
@@Arch_Angelus - Talk about bad luck...
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American jep. And the french did the rest. The tower was blown up by French soldiers in 1693 during the War of the Palatinate Succession after a mine blast in 1689 failed to have any effect. The mighty wall shell still rests on the rubble cone from that time. When it was blown up, the joint material proved to be more resistant than the red sandstone from which the tower was built.
In Wiki there is a photo from air. On the right side this is this tower. And the other big fat tower left seen in this photo is the tower where a theater took place on top. The Walls where 7 meter thick.
3:40 The "Wartburg" is the castle where Martin Luther translated the Bible from latin into german ... so the ordinary people could finally read it themselves and "decide themselves".
In 2000 they started building a castle with the methods of medieval times (~1200) in GUEDELON, France, and there is a documentary series called "secrets of the castle" (IIRC), which explains all of the processes used to create the castle ... from masonry to geometry to woodworking (they built a working mill powered by a water wheel out of wood) to tile making for the roofs to rope making to the making of the paints (from pigments) used in it ... and so on. It is 5 or maybe even 6 parts of ~1 hour, well worth the watch if you want to know how these things were done in the past.
THANK YOU!
Castles (the defensive ones) arent "bomb proof" ... because they are from a time before planes and "bomb explosives". At best they are "proof" against cannons/trebuchets ... but such walls arent limited to castles. Many cities have the remnants of medieval city walls, because Germany is the country everyone needs to go through when they want to wage war in europe ... and thus these cities were targets to PLUNDER. A solid wall discourages that.
There was this "30 years war" between catholics and evengalical nations, which raged through Germany in the 17th century.
3:35 the source video is not only highly arbitrary but very uninformative too. e.g. they give some background info to their #15 Glücksburg castle but omit in their #14 Wartburg castle, the most important info of all. Wartburg castle was the place where Martin Luther hid himself and translated the Bible into German. had he been captured by agents of his old church or the emperor our lives today and the landscape of religion would probably look very different and this includes all the Catholics in the world, not just the Protestants.
Interesting. Thanks for the information!
funny how you said one castle was like a hotel loads of castles in ireland are now hotels
That's cool.
The problem with "replacing your roof every 20 years" is that you use the wrong materials (and probably geometry/construction), because americans like to BUY CHEAP and then RUN EXPENSIVE ... which is a mindset that is also favored due to americans MOVING HOUSE EVERY FEW YEARS. A bad cultural tradition IMO.
I agree. If we ever get a more expensive home, ($1M+), we will have a metal or tile roof.