Hi! There are 2 more things to note... Frederick the Great was buried at his request in the palace park of "Sanssouci", right next to his beloved greyhounds. The very simple grave is freely accessible. And the castle of Schwerin also serves as the seat of the parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania...
Swinger Castle? Haha, that adds a whole new dimension to August's residence. 😂 Seriously, it's painful to listen to the butchered place names. Nobody expects a flawless German pronunciation here, but some more efforts are definitely welcome.
Yeah I believe the reading voice was an AI and they didn't correct what it was reading. They read "Ludwig II" as "Ludwig 2" like it's a movie. It's Ludwig the 2nd of course...
Hello, it can all be seen in a video but it's even more overwhelming when you can see it live and grasp the size of the goods before your eyes. It is really beautiful and since people still lived there almost 1000 years ago it is really something sensational. .Many greetings from Germany, Bavaria and thank you for your beautiful videos❤ 🫶. Greetings Eddie 👋👋👋👋👍👍
the video is wonderfully done....the only criticism i have is that the narrator has put absolutely no effort into any kind of attempt to pronounce the names of the castles and places correctly to a point where one really can´t tell anymore which one he´s talking about if it was not written in the subtitles - completely butchered and very annoying....pity, one might think the castles are all in Texas. considering how well all the infos are researched and professionally filmed and cut makes the narration rather embarrassing.....and there are more than enough programs and apps which can teach individual words if one invests am moment to focus on audio.
If you count the castles in ruins, which most are after fires, endless wars and so on, there are more castles in tiny Germany than there are Mc'Donalds in the USA 🤣🤣😉. A few which have been preserved are inhabited by the same family for several hundred years..
25.000 medieval castles, fortresses and fortified manor houses and this is the minimum number. And most likely, we will never know the total number as every village has has had their own small refugee fort/castle, where the citizens had retreated in case of war or stress with the neighbours. These were just regular an earthwall with a palisade and as these had rotten away after few years, had been replaced by another one nearby. Of most of these, all information is gone.
Many of the various castles, palaces and ruins are either several hundred years old, or even just a few centuries old. Each has its own characteristics and raison d'être. Back then, castles were not only built for their appearance. But also as a pool of power, a place of retreat and a symbol. At a certain time, there were around 14 of many of the castles that belonged to the king or emperor and served as a kind of hub from which he could work. And I didn't realise before that France, for example, has even more castles than Germany. Twice as many. Over 40,000.
Well... You have to remember, that not all castles in France, were French in origin. And palaces, are no castles. And a lot of castles, which belonged in origin to the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (HRE), are now in different countries. So... If we take this in mind, I would not bet a cent, that France has more castles than Germany. And until today, there are a lot of castles re- discovered. In the last 4 decades, in a distance of 2 miles from were I live, as the crow flies, two ruins were discovered... And at last: With more than 25.000 castles are by now in Germany, the French have not more as two times castles...
Marienburg Castle at min. 18:16 p.m. is no longer open to the public and probably never will be again. The Welfen noble house/ House of Welf is no longer interested in its ancestral home (!) and the state of Lower Saxony has no desire to continue administering it. It's better to let it fall into disrepair or only open it for shooting films and series! What I miss in the information about the castle is that it was built into a much older fortification. The so-called “Saxon Wall” is a ring wall system that dates back to the Middle Neolithic and the Late Latène in its oldest stage. To be fair you have to add that the main part of the ramparts dates from the early Middle Ages!
0:40 The castle where you stop the video for the first time is the castle in Heidelberg (Baden Würtemberg). And as one commentator here has already noted, Trifels Castle is missing from the video due to its historical significance. By the way: It's nice that you let us experience your enthusiasm.
We have a castle in my hometown of Querfurt. In the summer the students of the nearby school like to have naps on the castle walls :) . If you ever feel like it, visit Germany. We might seem crumpy at first, but most people are willing to help and assist :)
Is this castel inside the USA ? NO girl , they all are in Germany . Germany is also not inside the USA ! You should know this before commenting wideos about it . The vid. is very nice and you are very sympathic . Please go on doing videos like that .
The way you are appreciative and in awe of these castles is touching. It made me want to visit one soon :) I was curious, how many we have in Germany: 25000! Many are in private hands, but still a long list to choose from :)
This is a very touristy collection. - My favorite castle is Burg Altena. But you might also like Burg Bentheim, Burg Linn, Schloss Burg an der Wupper... And I wonder, why Burg Trifels is not mentioned because of its historical importance. ... As to the palaces, Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover is important, because it was once a resindece of kings, but there are also many lokal places like Brühl or Benrath. ... This castles are only some big ones. If I enter the next subway here, its last station is "Schloss Strünkede", a middlesized watercastle in Herne. ... You must also keep in mind, that in Germany, there was no real rebellion against the aristocracy after WW1. Most people had no bigger problems with their nobel neighbours, and so they mostly kept their private possesions. So you have things like Heltorf, where the count still lives in his castle, but he opens his huge park (my favorite one) for the public on summer-weekends.
Of course the whole of Europe has them dotted all over but it's said that in Germany alone there are more castles than McDonalds restaurants in the USA, which is quite remarkable considering the size of the countries.
for me Burg Elz is Number one, Sansoucie number two, because I am a huge fan of "old Fritz" ..... fairytale castle Neuschwanstein only nuber three. But that´s only my opinion 🙂
I disagree with some of the selections... I miss Nyphenburg palace in Munich - IMHO it's much more beautiful than e.g. Sanssouci (the name is French, it means "without worries"). Note: the drone footage of the Zwinger was taken when the interior was under construction while the ground footage was taken when it was nearly finished (I spotted just some scaffolding in the corners).
normally they mention how castle new swan stone was the inspiration for the disney castle more interresting is fortress Eilitz survived 850 years due to having a lot of female offspring to marry off and secure peaceagreemants well they had 1 woke feminist which didnt wanted to marry so she was send into the war she created and was killed first...
Hadn't seen that video before, so, thank you. They mention that these castles are not in the state they were built, but extended, changed, renovated, reconstructed. Of course they were; nothing stays the same for centuries. However, many documentaries don't mention that, making people think that what they see now is like it was six hundred years ago. Also, their short historical information seems to be accurate. At least it was for the four or five castles I know a little bit about. Their pronunciation of the German place names, however, is horrible! Please don't say the names like they do, nobody will understand what you're talking about.
Mam, Please continue to make videos like that but make sure there is no AI pronouncing German words (and titles, names etc.) - the pronunciation in English and German follow totally different rules and AI is too stupid 🙂 to make this but all so important difference. Furthermore please make yourself familiar with the Geography and a bit of history of my home country Germany, it would help to appreciate what you see even further and your comments better. I.e. Germany is a very young nation, its foundation of formal unity goes back down to 1848 und 1871 only - with other words before that the territories were split in countless smaller kingdoms, counties, etc. constantly changing and going to war over minor boarder disputes with each other (typically whenever a king died and the two sons inherited his kingdom, it was then usually split up with the two brothers soon going to war with each other) but also being threatened by external forces. So most of the castles (main purpose is defence) and palaces (main purpose is residence) you see there are actually built centuries before Germany was united in 1871. Of course, all Germans will consider these objects "German" since all the local populations were all related (even with often much hate among themselves) to each other and belong to what we keep calling the Germanic tribe. And make no mistake, the re-unification (please note - not the unification!) in 1990 is a different historical event; the division of Germany in 1945 by the end of WW2 was undertaken by the military allies in West and East. Please note further that most of the populations of pre-Germany had to pay with their taxes for all this splendid castles and palaces filled with lots of super extra flamboyance pieces of arts which we are all enjoying these days in museums. Only a very very small proportion of the population back then could even access all of these, although they paid for it usually with extreme poverty and their sons drafted into bloody wars. Which is why in Germany our grand-grand-fathers kicked the nobles and aristocrats finally out in 1918 and changed Germany into a republic for the first time. A process which repeated itself in many European countries earlier or later too. People were tired of the wars and selfishness of this ruling cast. If you are so interested in German things, read history books (!!) and avoid the internet - too much crap there. Peace from Dresden / Germany (video sequence 12 and 20) - I will just take a stroll inside the "Zwinger" of Dresden and have a bicycle tour to Schloss Moritzburg this upcoming weekend to eat my Bratwurst with a cool beer in the open
This video maker should learn a lot more about pronouncing the town and castles. It is really horrible to listen and a lot more disrespectful to show other people this. Consider every castle and town is wrong pronounced. Otherwise it is just a reaction to a video. I doubt real interest and curiosity. If I am wrong she is considered to be welcomed as guest of mine so I show her some great and historical parts of Germany.
Greetings from Germany! Makes me smile to see you enjoying those castles ... All the best to you!
Hi! There are 2 more things to note... Frederick the Great was buried at his request in the palace park of "Sanssouci", right next to his beloved greyhounds. The very simple grave is freely accessible. And the castle of Schwerin also serves as the seat of the parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania...
Swinger Castle? Haha, that adds a whole new dimension to August's residence. 😂
Seriously, it's painful to listen to the butchered place names. Nobody expects a flawless German pronunciation here, but some more efforts are definitely welcome.
Yeah I believe the reading voice was an AI and they didn't correct what it was reading.
They read "Ludwig II" as "Ludwig 2" like it's a movie. It's Ludwig the 2nd of course...
The time when you do not understand your own language! 😂 Falsgrefenstien = Pfalzgrafenstein for example
@@SushiElemental Thus it is Artificial but not Intelligent.
@@SushiElemental Made me wonder if our new king of Denmark,
Frederik X are related to Malcolm X.
The danish word for casle is "slot".
Swinger slot. Lol.
Hello, it can all be seen in a video but it's even more overwhelming when you can see it live and grasp the size of the goods before your eyes. It is really beautiful and since people still lived there almost 1000 years ago it is really something sensational. .Many greetings from Germany, Bavaria and thank you for your beautiful videos❤ 🫶. Greetings Eddie 👋👋👋👋👍👍
like everything online ......
Superb video about these gorgeous castles!!
I'm positively surprised that Hambach Castle made it on this list. I grew up about 2 miles from the castle :-)
the video is wonderfully done....the only criticism i have is that the narrator has put absolutely no effort into any kind of attempt to pronounce the names of the castles and places correctly to a point where one really can´t tell anymore which one he´s talking about if it was not written in the subtitles - completely butchered and very annoying....pity, one might think the castles are all in Texas. considering how well all the infos are researched and professionally filmed and cut makes the narration rather embarrassing.....and there are more than enough programs and apps which can teach individual words if one invests am moment to focus on audio.
Yes, for a German native speaker it kind of hurts🤣
Given the 'Ludwig Two' instead of 'Ludwig the Second,' I even suspect it was narrated by AI.
@@eucitizen78 not sure that he is one ... no gns would do that
@@eucitizen78no, it doesn't "kind of hurts", it hurts.
You can make it a fun quiz!😊
If you count the castles in ruins, which most are after fires, endless wars and so on, there are more castles in tiny Germany than there are Mc'Donalds in the USA 🤣🤣😉.
A few which have been preserved are inhabited by the same family for several hundred years..
25.000 medieval castles, fortresses and fortified manor houses and this is the minimum number. And most likely, we will never know the total number as every village has has had their own small refugee fort/castle, where the citizens had retreated in case of war or stress with the neighbours. These were just regular an earthwall with a palisade and as these had rotten away after few years, had been replaced by another one nearby. Of most of these, all information is gone.
we have about 25000 Castle and Palace in Germany..... more then US has McDonalds🤣
Many of the various castles, palaces and ruins are either several hundred years old, or even just a few centuries old.
Each has its own characteristics and raison d'être. Back then, castles were not only built for their appearance. But also as a pool of power, a place of retreat and a symbol.
At a certain time, there were around 14 of many of the castles that belonged to the king or emperor and served as a kind of hub from which he could work.
And I didn't realise before that France, for example, has even more castles than Germany. Twice as many. Over 40,000.
Well... You have to remember, that not all castles in France, were French in origin. And palaces, are no castles. And a lot of castles, which belonged in origin to the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (HRE), are now in different countries. So... If we take this in mind, I would not bet a cent, that France has more castles than Germany. And until today, there are a lot of castles re- discovered. In the last 4 decades, in a distance of 2 miles from were I live, as the crow flies, two ruins were discovered... And at last: With more than 25.000 castles are by now in Germany, the French have not more as two times castles...
Marienburg Castle at min. 18:16 p.m. is no longer open to the public and probably never will be again. The Welfen noble house/ House of Welf is no longer interested in its ancestral home (!) and the state of Lower Saxony has no desire to continue administering it. It's better to let it fall into disrepair or only open it for shooting films and series!
What I miss in the information about the castle is that it was built into a much older fortification. The so-called “Saxon Wall” is a ring wall system that dates back to the Middle Neolithic and the Late Latène in its oldest stage. To be fair you have to add that the main part of the ramparts dates from the early Middle Ages!
❤ Wow, I didn't know some of the castles myself...and I am German
Coming to Germany ...Castels from Bavaria, Thuringa, Saxonia , ...2200 best Castles ...!
Wow, gorgeous as always ❤
So beautiful❤
0:40
The castle where you stop the video for the first time is the castle in Heidelberg (Baden Würtemberg).
And as one commentator here has already noted, Trifels Castle is missing from the video due to its historical significance.
By the way:
It's nice that you let us experience your enthusiasm.
We have a castle in my hometown of Querfurt. In the summer the students of the nearby school like to have naps on the castle walls :) . If you ever feel like it, visit Germany. We might seem crumpy at first, but most people are willing to help and assist :)
Is this castel inside the USA ? NO girl , they all are in Germany .
Germany is also not inside the USA !
You should know this before commenting wideos about it .
The vid. is very nice and you are very sympathic .
Please go on doing videos like that .
Nice. Greetings from Germany
The way you are appreciative and in awe of these castles is touching. It made me want to visit one soon :) I was curious, how many we have in Germany: 25000! Many are in private hands, but still a long list to choose from :)
This is a very touristy collection. - My favorite castle is Burg Altena. But you might also like Burg Bentheim, Burg Linn, Schloss Burg an der Wupper... And I wonder, why Burg Trifels is not mentioned because of its historical importance. ... As to the palaces, Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover is important, because it was once a resindece of kings, but there are also many lokal places like Brühl or Benrath. ... This castles are only some big ones. If I enter the next subway here, its last station is "Schloss Strünkede", a middlesized watercastle in Herne. ... You must also keep in mind, that in Germany, there was no real rebellion against the aristocracy after WW1. Most people had no bigger problems with their nobel neighbours, and so they mostly kept their private possesions. So you have things like Heltorf, where the count still lives in his castle, but he opens his huge park (my favorite one) for the public on summer-weekends.
Of course the whole of Europe has them dotted all over but it's said that in Germany alone there are more castles than McDonalds restaurants in the USA, which is quite remarkable considering the size of the countries.
How many McDonalds are there in the US? AFAIK, there's about 25,000 castles in Germany...
@@realulli
14,000
Spain have a lot of more Palaces in Europe
for me Burg Elz is Number one, Sansoucie number two, because I am a huge fan of "old Fritz" ..... fairytale castle Neuschwanstein only nuber three. But that´s only my opinion 🙂
I disagree with some of the selections... I miss Nyphenburg palace in Munich - IMHO it's much more beautiful than e.g. Sanssouci (the name is French, it means "without worries").
Note: the drone footage of the Zwinger was taken when the interior was under construction while the ground footage was taken when it was nearly finished (I spotted just some scaffolding in the corners).
Just buy a plot of land (with a quarry and forest nearby) ... and start building your own castle.
Mir gefällt es, dass du dich Deutsche Schlösser interessiert.👍❤️🇩🇪
normally they mention how castle new swan stone was the inspiration for the disney castle
more interresting is fortress Eilitz survived 850 years due to having a lot of female offspring to marry off and secure peaceagreemants
well they had 1 woke feminist which didnt wanted to marry so she was send into the war she created and was killed first...
Hadn't seen that video before, so, thank you. They mention that these castles are not in the state they were built, but extended, changed, renovated, reconstructed. Of course they were; nothing stays the same for centuries. However, many documentaries don't mention that, making people think that what they see now is like it was six hundred years ago. Also, their short historical information seems to be accurate. At least it was for the four or five castles I know a little bit about. Their pronunciation of the German place names, however, is horrible! Please don't say the names like they do, nobody will understand what you're talking about.
Jaaa Swinger palace 😂😂😂❤
The best preserved Medieval castles shown are
24. Marksburg
6. Burg Eltz
the best: sigmareetchen castle! hahahaha!
😊 Sis is fascinated❤ Have a look for the Scottish Castles and you are a 100% in GoT
There are hundreds in Germany, this is only a smal part and Not even the Most beautiful
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I wonder what the Roukoukou style is.
The commentator doesn't even bother to pronounce the places correctly.
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Mam,
Please continue to make videos like that but make sure there is no AI pronouncing German words (and titles, names etc.) - the pronunciation in English and German follow totally different rules and AI is too stupid 🙂 to make this but all so important difference. Furthermore please make yourself familiar with the Geography and a bit of history of my home country Germany, it would help to appreciate what you see even further and your comments better.
I.e. Germany is a very young nation, its foundation of formal unity goes back down to 1848 und 1871 only - with other words before that the territories were split in countless smaller kingdoms, counties, etc. constantly changing and going to war over minor boarder disputes with each other (typically whenever a king died and the two sons inherited his kingdom, it was then usually split up with the two brothers soon going to war with each other) but also being threatened by external forces.
So most of the castles (main purpose is defence) and palaces (main purpose is residence) you see there are actually built centuries before Germany was united in 1871. Of course, all Germans will consider these objects "German" since all the local populations were all related (even with often much hate among themselves) to each other and belong to what we keep calling the Germanic tribe.
And make no mistake, the re-unification (please note - not the unification!) in 1990 is a different historical event; the division of Germany in 1945 by the end of WW2 was undertaken by the military allies in West and East.
Please note further that most of the populations of pre-Germany had to pay with their taxes for all this splendid castles and palaces filled with lots of super extra flamboyance pieces of arts which we are all enjoying these days in museums.
Only a very very small proportion of the population back then could even access all of these, although they paid for it usually with extreme poverty and their sons drafted into bloody wars. Which is why in Germany our grand-grand-fathers kicked the nobles and aristocrats finally out in 1918 and changed Germany into a republic for the first time. A process which repeated itself in many European countries earlier or later too. People were tired of the wars and selfishness of this ruling cast.
If you are so interested in German things, read history books (!!) and avoid the internet - too much crap there.
Peace from Dresden / Germany (video sequence 12 and 20) - I will just take a stroll inside the "Zwinger" of Dresden and have a bicycle tour to Schloss Moritzburg this upcoming weekend to eat my Bratwurst with a cool beer in the open
There are hundreds in Germany, this is only a smal part and Not even the Most beautiful
I am so prot to lofe to life I'm. Radevormwald
You are so beautiful ❤️
The chapter titles made me cringe.
This video maker should learn a lot more about pronouncing the town and castles. It is really horrible to listen and a lot more disrespectful to show other people this. Consider every castle and town is wrong pronounced. Otherwise it is just a reaction to a video. I doubt real interest and curiosity. If I am wrong she is considered to be welcomed as guest of mine so I show her some great and historical parts of Germany.