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At the time of the Deutsche Mark, Eltz Castle could be seen as a picture on the back of the 500DM banknote. The family of Count Eltz has lived in this castle since the foundation of the castle and has been doing so for more than 900 years. The castle has never been destroyed and is a jewel among castles.
There is a different between a Castle (Burg) and a Palace (Schloss). The first was built to defend and the second only for living..
If you are back in Germany, take a week and travel the Rhine by ship. There you can see the most castles in one time.
More or less accurate. Burg Hohenzollern for example was neither built for living nor for defending.
13:09 The Berlin City Palace was almost completely destroyed in WW2. In the GDR (East Germany), the remains were completely demolished. After reunification, the Berlin City Palace was reconstructed and rebuilt true to the original.
Almost completly demolished ... the GDR kept the balcony where Karl Liebknecht tried to announce the socialism after WW1
And I love it. In a sense... the old Berlin with its imperial buildings has been restored now. It took so long, but we are finally there. The Humboldt Forum / Castle looks amazing.
There are also plans to reconstruct the interior according to the historical model ua-cam.com/video/CHnRrfpShRE/v-deo.html
The British bombs only destroyed half of the castle. The actual destruction of this important monument was carried out by the red barbarians of the SED
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The “Berlin Castle” was rebuilt!
At the time of the "GDR" the Palace of the Republic was built there, which was very ugly.
And now imagine that most of these buildings were erected by people with skill and experience and without any modern electrical tools.
Craftsmanship, brains and hands.
'Castle Frankenstein' is missed (like usual) - the spot were for a really long time a real Frankenstein dynasty lived and an alchemist really tried to find the 'life elixir' - which inspired Mary Shelby (who traveled this region in Hessen back then) for her famous Novel 'Frankenstein' ...
Tbf, while the backstory of castle Frankenstein is undoubtedly amazing, the castle ruin is not so much. But yeah just for the name drop alone it would be worth to include it.
@@olgahein4384 yep, the castle ruin is in itself not that spectacular BUT in combination with the story much more interesting as completion of a bigger/diverse list of castles than the repetition of a nice but associative not very sticking one. the Frankenstein castle just enriches a list for such very reasons. Similar to the Dracula castle in Romania (which was even not 'the one' the Impaler actually lived - but in both cases, the story, the idea, the imagination that there was something as halftrue reason for that makes it exciting). apart from that, one also should always add the name Luther to the Wartburg (and not saying/describe nothing)
it´s Mary Shelley
6:15 - Schloß Sigmaringen is in less than 30 miles distance from your place of residence.
10:30 - around 40 miles to Schloß Lichtenstein
11:58 - Schloß Werenwag = 43 miles
somewhere i've read "There are more castles in Germany than McDonalds in the U.S. and there are more McDonalds in Germany than castles in the U.S."
(but actually there are quite a lot of forts, fortresses, mansions and palaces in the U.S. that would count as castles by German standards, a building like The White House would be one)
the last one in Berlin... they don't build a new castle, they rebuild one that was destroyed during ww2
No. Nobody in germany would consider the White House as a castle…
That's true. But judging by its size and number of rooms, according to the official definition you can call it a castle, even if no one would, since it was never used as a castle
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You have no clue about architecture. Not even Trump's "Mar-A-Lago" is a castle ... because there is one critical thing missing: FAMILY HISTORY!
Americans change their houses every few years, because they have no roots. Owners of castles dont do that.
Fun fact
Germany has around 25,000 castles and palaces, and America has around 15,000 McDonald's outlets.
But Germany also has a very special McDonald's branch, a Drive Inn for boats in Hamburg
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As You mentioned McDonalds - there are over 25.000 castles in Germany more then McDonalds in the USA (>12.000). To answer Your qustion: I do not have a castle I would call "the best". It allways is related to the context.
Martin Luther translated the Bilbel into German during his exile at Wartburg Castle. This made it possible for the common man to read the Bible and no longer have to rely on it when the church preached.
Yes and luther also introduced a huge anti-women politics into his religious ideas. Some of his famous quotes: "the biggest honor for women is, that men are Born by them." "Death in child bed is dying an honorful death. But whether the women wear themselves tried and dead, rhat doesnt do any harm. Just let them carry dead, that is why they are here." "If the wife wont come, so let the Maid come." "Women lack strength of body and mind"
@@soewenue You're not really comparing 500-year-old values to those of today? That's exactly what bothers me about the woke cancellation culture. No one who thinks normally is looking at these historical figures as role models these days. Most people probably don't even know what values he stood for until people like you had to bring it up.
@@tosa2522 no I didnt do this. But I am comparing it to the ideas of the catholics during These days were this ideas werent as big as in Luthers mind. Has nothing to Do with "woke cancel culture", it is just a fact that luther was compared to most other theologians during his era a women hater. But hey keep going interpretating Things I havent said and throwing with fighting terms.
Eine Klassenkameradin in der Berufsschule lernt steinbildhauerin in der zwingerbauhütte. You could do a Video about the "Zwinger" in "Dresden".
As you already said in the video: You have to visit Burg Eltz!!!
so true and before the €uro Burg Eltz was on our 50 Deutsche Mark bills
I lived in a village for 10 years, very close to the castle "Schloss Lichtenstein". From the balcony I had a wonderful panoramic view to the mountains and the castle. My workplace was in a village directly below. I drove past it every day during the week. At some point it was normal but now when I see this video I think about how beautiful that view to the castle was. I was born in Baden Würtemberg.
For me as a German, it is also always impressive to see such buildings... and for sure we also did our wedding photoshooting on the castle😬
In Burg Eltz a family lived since more as 850 years, for 34 generations!
The _Braunschweiger Residenzschloss_ (residential palace) in Braunschweig (Brunswick) in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) was restored starting in 2006 from the original building blueprints and old photos, using 600 pieces of the original facade and its original bronze statues that had been saved & put into storage when it was torn down in 1960s. It had been built in 1931-41 as the palace for the Welfenkönig (King of the Guelphs) of the noble House Hannover (the same noble family the British Windsors are from, they changed their German name during WW2 and adopted the name from Castle Windsor). But it was badly damaged by bombardment and fires during WW2.
Behind the restored 19th century facade of the _Braunschweiger Residenzschloss_ it now contains a large shopping mall with various small shops and restaurants and a medical center. A lot of restored medieval or classicist architecture in cities, like former guild town houses, city castles and palaces now house urban administration offices or shops or hotels behind their facades. Castles and manors outside cities often have their insides modernized with modern glass windows, electricity, flowing water etc and turned into hotels or rentable venues for medieval-style festivals, roleplaying/LARPing conventions or seminars.
the 'Berliner Schloss reconstruction' is already finished and free to visit. And in general there are not just differences between castles and palaces etc. but also in different types of castles (not everyone was created for defense, even if it looks like - on the other hand there are some with really refined defense systems), and difference types of fortreses. The Spandau Citadel in'Berlin (Zitadelle Spandau) is an example of one of the more famous and best preserved Fortresses in Europe (which has a medieval castle in its core but which was in the years 1559-1594 surrounded by the at that time most modern Fortress/Defense-construction ...
There are castles and palaces not only in Germany, but all over Europe. Take a look at the royal castles on the Loire in France, Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna, the Vienna Hofburg, both in Austria, the old royal castle that towers over the city of Bratislava in Slovenia, Hohenzollern Castle in Germany. There are so many examples. The nobility, kings and emperors ruled Europe for centuries and all these people have left their architectural mark on Europe. Examples of classical antiquity are the Acropolis of Athens, the sports ruins in Olympia in Greece. In ancient times, sporting competitions took place there, which the ancient Greeks called the Olympic Games. The ruins of Delphi, where the Oracle of Delphi had its seat in ancient times. The Temple of Poseidon in southern Italy. In Greece there are numerous other temple ruins and on the Greek island of Crete there are the ruins of the royal palace of Knossos. In France, Italy, Spain and all around the Mediterranean, the remains of Roman aqueducts have been preserved. In Rome, you can still see the remains of the Roman Forum and, miraculously, the conference building of the ancient Roman Senate has been preserved. You can find many more examples with photos on Wikipedia. In the German city of Aachen you can still see the ancient throne room of Emperor Constantine the Great and in the German city of Cologne you can admire in the underground how durable the Romans built and the Cologne sewer system is still largely Roman today.
Many of the large cities in Europe are of Roman origin, for example Vienna, which emerged from the Roman fort Vindobona and Cologne was founded by the Roman general Agrippa in Augustan times under the name Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. Over the centuries, the city's name was shortened to Cologne. Europe is not Disneyland, even if the majority of you Americans think so. It's all real living history you can touch!
As always, only the big boxes are shown, which are often just fake, like Neuschwanstein. I would have liked to see the smaller castles and palaces with real ancient history, such as the Leuchtenburg, the Raniser Burg, the Heidecksburg or the Dornburger Schösser. google these castles and palaces
at least Burg Falkenstein and Schloss Wernigerode aren't that big and have real history and there were quite a few more on that list
Festung Marienberg also has a real history, being under siege in the German Peasants War as well as in the 30 years War
'Neuschwanstein' is not fake. While indeed older castles should be shown, people really get into her brain that most of the time, also back in the medieval age and earlier ppl in most cases already changed castles, destroyed castles, renewed castles after certain trends and so on. 'Neuschwanstein' is about a certain combination of beauty and setting. That there are many others, and for people with more profound likely even more interesting, castles, does not change such facts. And in a list one can show all of them (it was a BAD list if one dont show 'Neuschwanstein). Just like a really good list would also (even if its less about beauty or size) show 'Castle Frankenstein' - the spot were for a really long time a real Frankenstein dynasty lived and an alchemist really tried to find the 'life elixir' - which inspired Mary Shelby (who traveled this region in Hessen back then) for her famous Novel 'Frankenstein' ...
They are rebuilding the castle in Berlin on the same spot, same look after it was completly destroyed in WW2. Same they did with the Frauenkirche in Dresden. A fantastic church.
OUTSIDE look ... so it is a FAKE.
My all time favourite is Schloss Schwerin
The part in the middle of the Rhine (8.12min) was a customs station in the Middle Ages.
Burg Wolkenstein, Schloss Lauchhammer, Schloss Hartenfels (Torgau), Festung Königstein, ...
there are estimated around 25.000 strongholds, fortresses and castles (burgen), palaces (schlösser) and residences (residenzen)in germany ...
7:20, yes indeed. Can't see if that's a path to funnel invaders through or just baileys to be taken in sequence. There's many good videos here on UA-cam explaining castles if you'Re interested enough.
If you have the chance, visit Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich, in summer. The 5s in this clip showed it in winter, when it's at its lowest. It was built to resemble Versailles but I think it has a few more tech gimmicks, like a water ballet (with pumps that are over a century old!).
Hohenzollern is really old name-giving for the german royal family,Neuschwanstein is the new one.
One of the oldes castles in this video is the "Goslar Kaiserpfalz" at 6:45. Was constructed around 1040 - 1050 by Emperor Henry (Heinrich) 3rd, who is still known with his petition to the Pope, also known as
“the walk to Canossa” which is still present in everyday language.
Hey Sean! I like castles too, so briliant video! Everything good to you!
Ja einen wunderschönen Tag wünsch ich dir! Yes the german castles escpecially in the rhine region are well known. BUT the idea for the disney castle is actually from the Neu-Schwanenstein Castle. i was so often on Schloss Waldeck, everytime nice
You should certainly visit Burg Lichtenstein in Baden-Würtenberg. The pictures didn't show just how impossible that one is. Perched on top of a cliff and an outlying stone needle. Sorry, it is hard to describe in English. I tried finding pictures, but they don't show just how incredibly high up it is.
And afterward you can visit the castle in Sigmaringen close by. Another beautiful one, but of a different kind.
Those two really got my immagination going, as I love the older ones, too.
Another amazing castle is the Veste Coburg. And also the Festung Rosenberg in the town near by - Kronach, I think. Those are in Franken (Northern part of Bavaria.) Interesting History there and the connections to the British Monarchy is explained there, but you learn about those in the Stadtschloss in Coburg.
Another thing, we have so many different words for Castles and Palaces in German. Burg, Schloss, Palast, Festung, etc. Are there any more besides 'castle' and 'palace' in English? 'Stronghold' maybe, right?
Neuschwanstein is also the Disney castle but not 1:1 as the family and Bavaria doesn't allowed the using from the castle as copies
The Berlin Palace has been completed and is open for visitors. It is a reconstruction... the old Berlin Palace was destroyed during WW2. The Berlin Palace also got a new name: Humboldt Forum.
It truly completes Berlin and its old imperial monuments and buildings. It only took 80 years for Berlin to be fully restored again.
There are two castles that weren't in the Videos that belong to my favorits one is Schloss Bilstein it was build in the 13th centurie and the other on is Schloss Königstein and Königsstein has a stunning view yes Bilstein is a smaller castle but it is old
Schweriner Schloss ❤ 🏰
i had a short vacation in burg stahleck once there is a youth hostel build in it
Light I life near Schloss Nordkirchen aka the Westphalian Versaille😅
I am actually torn with the question of which castle I ilke most.
I have history with Heildeberg, so Schloss Heidelberg
but then I also have some fun stories about Neuschwanstein (I especially love the history about Ludwig who build it, his mysterious death and the fact that the castle is not nearly finished, it was supposed to have a turkish bath and some terasses outdoor that were never build) And since you mentioned in another video - that the inside is not to your liking... Actually it was build only for Ludwig to see - and he was very much into myths and legends and that's how he build it
Probably my varoite is Burg Eltz though, since it's sort of near and there are so many nice hiking paths near ot.
Or The Drachenfels - although that's more of a ruin.
But in the Siebengebirge there are also tons of old ruis and castles.
Schloss Lichtenstein in Baden-Württemberg. Close to Bad Urach. I have been here several times and it is still owned and inhabited by the Duke of Urach Count from Württemberg. But everybody can visit it.
the berlin schloss is under "reconstruction" but if i can sugest something in france there is a caste under construction and they build it complete iin the medieval way Guédelon iis the name
oh and in badenwürtenberg there is campus galli its not a castle or palace its a monastery wish is under construction also complete medieval craft and building plans
there are also youtube videos for both places to watch
'Neues Schloss Baden-Württemberg' - ehm which one? We have several with that name in the area. But i think it's the one in Baden-Baden where the ministry of finance for the land of Baden-Württemberg is located.
Germany has around 35’000 Castles and Palaces-the biggest concentration is in the west -along the Rhine and Mosel Rivers.
The Berliner Stadtschloss was rebuilt after complete destruction after WWII and replaced with another official building (Palast der Republik)
Rebuild in concrete and covered with stone . Only the facade is a copy of the old Castle , the inside is all different - a “new castle”…
"the biggest concentration is in the west"
I live in Bochum and I know at least 5 moated castles less than 30 km away from my home
Bladenhorst
Bodelschwingh
Borbeck
Kemnade
Strünkede
1:29 Reichsburg Cochem was in 1294 pawned by King Adolf of Nassau to the Archbishop of Trier for a loan to fund his coronation. Adolf's successor Albrecht of Habsburg could not (or did not want to) pay back the loan, so he appointed the Archbishop(s) as heriditary Burgraves for this Imperial castle and the associated estates. During the Nine Year's war (also war of the Palatinate succession) it was - like many other castles in the region - conquered and destroyed by French troops (sent by Louis XIV). After the Vienna Congress the region became Prussian as the "Rhine Province", and In 1868 a Berlin merchant - Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené, descendent of huguenot refugees from France - bought the ruins to rebuilt the castle as a summer seat for his family.
1:40 The Wartburg in Thuringia was the seat of the Landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse until 1247. Between 1211 and 1228 Elisabeth of Thuringia lived here, born as Princess Elisabeth of Hungary, married to Landgrave Ludwig IV in 1221, who died in 1227 on his way to a crusade; his brother Heinrich Raspe abhorred the religious devotion of Elisabeth, her dedication to help the poor and her gullibility to her father confessor Konrad of Marburg, so she had to move to Marburg, where she died in 1231 in a hospital founded by her and was immediately canonized as Saint Elisabeth.
Heinrich Raspe died without children (after his nephew Hermann II had died at the age of 18), and after some disputes Thuringia came to House Wettin, while Hesse became its own Landgraviate ruled by Elisabeth's daughter Sophie, by marriage Duchess of Brabant. After Martin Luther came under Imperial ban in 1521, he was "kidnapped" by soldiers of Elector Friedrich III of Saxony (House Wettin) and brought to the Wartburg, where he lived under a false name and finished his translation of the Bible. In the early 19th century the Wartburg became a center of the nationalist and republican movement; it was the place where for the first time the German flag in black-red-gold was shown.
2:29 Heidelberg was for a long time the capital of the Palatinate of the Rhine, the most wealthy and powerful Palatinate with the Empire (a Palatinate or Kaiserpfalz was originally an Imperial residence, managed by a Count Palatinate, who also ruled over the associated estates - like the word "palace" "Pfalz" refers to the Palatine hill in Rome, where the antique Roman Emperors built their residences), ruled by a side branch of House Wittelsbach (the main branch were the Dukes of Bavaria; after the Bavarian branch went extinct in 1777, the branch Palatinate-Sulzbach took over until 1799 and was superseded by the branch Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, which became in 1806 the first kings of Bavaria. Heidelberg was partly destroyed by French troops during the Nine Years' war which broke out after the death of the last Protestant Elector of the Palatinate Karl II, as Louis XIV claimed hereditary titles in the name of Karl's sister Elisabeth Charlotte, called Liselotte, married to the Duke of Orleans, the brother of Louis XIV. After a few years reconstruction started, but was halted after lightning caused a fire destroying additional buildings. The Electors of the Palatinate then moved the capital to their new-built residence at Mannheim.
3:13 Schloss Schwerin was originally a castle which first buildings were erected in the 10th century, but the currently oldest parts are from the 16th century. It was the seat of the Dukes of Mecklenburg. Between 1844 and 1857 it was largely redesigned in the style of the palaces in the French Loire valley. Nowadays it houses the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and some museums; the gardens are open to the public.
3:25 Schloss Nordkirchen was originally a fortified castle, which was sold in 1694 to the Prince-Bishop of Münster, whose family started to redesign it as a palace and residence in the Baroque style (but ruined the family fortunes in the process).
3:57 the castle in Nuremberg was an Imperial castle managed by a Burgrave (House Hohenzollern). For a long time it contained the Imperial treasure chamber holding he Imperial regalia.
6:15 Sigmaringen is another Hohenzollern castle, of the branch Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, erected on a rock looking over the river Danube.
9:05 Glücksburg belongs to the Danish Royal family (House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of which is also the Royal Family of Norway).
9:25 the Burg zu Burghausen (lit. translating to "castle at castle home") holds the title of the longest castle in Europe and the Guinness World Record of the longest castle complex in the world. In consists of six castle courtyards one after another (five of which are designated as forecourts) and has a total length of 1051 meters.
12:52 Schloss Hohentübingen belongs to the University of Tübingen.
They forgot some of the coolest castles. Worth visiting: Festung Königstein, Burg Prunn and Burg Schönfels fir example.
So yourself a favor and look at the pictures of ,, Festung Königstein Weihnachtsmarkt " every Christmas there is a medieval market. Worth every second up there.
Half a dozen are within a two hours ride from your hometown.
D’Artagnan Feuer und Flamme ( Fire and Flame)
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I recommend looking into fortress Königstein
iff you arre in the western part of baden würtenberg it is possible that the palatinate castles are better to reach than the actual bawü ones
A castle could not be conquered before the invention of siege engines.
Even after that, a siege lasted months and cost the besiegers a fortune, which is why most sieges were broken off after a while.
Castles were not built for war, but for peace.
The more castles were built by a ruler, the more the land around it was pacified.
Only nobles were knights and if they had not inherited anything, they became robber barons and marauded through the countryside.
The castles offered protection because the attacks were concentrated on the surrounding villages, where there was livestock and much more to be taken, and the farmers could retreat to the castle to at least save their lives.
The people provided for and fed the lord of the castle, who in return was obliged to protect his farmers, if necessary by force of arms.
The last place of refuge in the event of a storming was the so-called "Burgfried". This word also contains the word peace - "fried" = "Frieden"
We were Knights, we are Knights, and we we will ever be Knights.
The best comment of you:: Germany has so beautiful Castles and Amerika.......Mc Donalds!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
4:56 my hometurf :D
10:27 Schloß Burg :- D In meiner Nachbarschaft
9:28 central statement!
fun fact: there are more castles in Germany than McD in the US
Schloss= Castle Burg=Fortress
The great castles are simply due to Central European history, in which the nobility exploited the middle classes for many hundreds of years.... Nevertheless: great buildings
The USA has unbelievably great landscapes that I would love to see at some point in my life.
25000 châteaux en Allemagne
14350 Macdonalds aux USA
Do you live in Baden Württemberg?
Marksburg!
Wie have about 25000 Castles and Palaces in Germany.
In Us there is about 13400 McDonalds, worldwide ist has same, 25000 , funny useless Knowledge😊
Yes the castles are fine but when i need a burger I prefer MC Donalds😉
technically not a castle but Festung Ehrenbreitstein
greetings from Koblenz
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No Burg Wildenstein ?
was integrated. a bit more important if such lists would start to integrate 'Castle Frankenstein' - the spot were for a really long time a real Frankenstein dynasty lived and an alchemist really tried to find the 'life elixir' - which inspired Mary Shelby (who traveled this region in Hessen back then) for her famous Novel 'Frankenstein'. In this case its not about beauty or size but bout a world wide known narrative/story (from many books, stories, movies) associated with a real spot.
There are many castles to notice..... Meersburg (Lake Constance) . Trifels.....etc
keine Festung Königsstein :(
Heiligenstein, Liechtenstein....are so many
@@benjaminzuckschwerdt4779 you mean "Lichtenstein'. 'Liechtenstein' is either a country (a small one surrounded by Switzerland) or a castle in Austria ...
They are not building a new one they renovate it
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