Indians React to GERMAN Castles and Palaces
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
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At Moritzburg the Film "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel" was filmed
The Burg Eltz is still in the property of the family who built it.
On the Wartburg Martin Luther translated the bible into German.
On the Burg Trifels King Richard Lionheart was held prisoner.
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein is in the middle of the Rhine River
It shows the history of Germany very well. From a patchwork of many tribes, kingdoms etc to a unified country.
5:40 Glücksburg Castle was built between 1583 and 1587, so I wouldn‘t really call it "new" or "modern", but of course you are right in the sense that there are some much older castles in Germany.
I lived in Varanasi for three months in winter and there are also wonderful temples. India also is very beautiful.
7:50 castles were built in the Middle Ages. That’s what distinguishes them from palaces. The latter were built in the baroque era as representative residences of kings. They’re usually surrounded by lush gardens whereas castles were built on top of hills and mountains so the owners could overlook the surrounding area and spot any approaching enemy.
Palaces were also built during the middle ages, so that distinction is not really correct. Though the palaces built in the baroque were much more ornamented and lavish. On the other hand, many castles were rebuilt or refurbished during that time as well, blurring the line between those two even further.
5:08 Unfortunately, this was only the monument of a few dukes. Not the residence of the king.
At the time of the emperor, there were 12 castles that were considered imperial castles.
Such as Trifels Castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, which played an important role as an imperial castle in the 1100s. There you can also see replicas of the imperial jewels of the Holy Roman Empire.
The English King Richard the Lionheart was also imprisoned there. For about three weeks (1193).
Thanks to you two lovely young people. You are so sweet.
6:51 the river is the "Lech", it's beautiful colour comes from the high amount of minerals and its cold temperature.
greetings from germany, near Füssen 👋
17th century - most of them built in 8. - 12. century. Medieval was from 5.-12. century (It is said that from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the discovery of America, some say until the conquest of Constantinople).
However, most of them are no longer privately owned, but belong to the city or state administration. Many are now museums or are otherwise used publicly.
Dankeschön ❤
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
There is a nice story about Johannisburg Castle. The castle was built between 1605 and 1614. When the Thirty Years' War broke out in 1618, it was practically new. During the war, Sweden became a war party under the famous King Gustav Adolf II. After his army landed on the Baltic coast in 1630, he marched victoriously against the army of the Catholic emperor as far as Munich. And in what is now northern Bavaria, this very castle lies in the town of Aschaffenburg, which was taken by the Swedes in 1631. After he had been given the keys to the town, the Swedish king said that he thought it a great shame to have to burn down the castle, which had only been completed a few years previously, because he could not take it with him to Sweden. However, a Capuchin monk said that he could do that, he would just have to roll it there. Gustav Adolf frowned questioningly, and the clever priest pointed to the wheels carved above each of the numerous windows on the first floor, which refer to the Mainz coat of arms. It is reported that the king had to laugh at this and decided not to destroy it.
Hohenzollern Castle is the residence of our Emperor of the German Empire.
8:35 my home town ... the castle was my school and is still a school today
Nothing here beats Mehrangarh, in Jodpur. As Kipling said, "It was built by angels and giants".
Germany have more than 25.000thousend palaces Casles and ruines in germany ...greetings to Bavaria 👋
There are castles/ palaces still owned by descendants of former high nobility. The former low noblemen had mostly only small castles or buildings called Palais in a town or Herrenhaus in rural areas..Other castles / palaces are nowadays state owned and Museums, cultural or administation buildings. Smaller ones are sometimes owned by whealty persons without noble ancestry.
There was not only one king in Germany, but 4 kingdoms. There was the King of Bavaria, the King of Prussia, the King of Saxony and the King of Würtenberg. Most castles and palaces were built by "fürsten" and "grafen". And the Emperor sat over everything . Today, Germany is a republic and most of the castles and palaces are state-owned. are universities, museums, libraries, etc.
When i was very Young, i always dreamed of lake dal in india!
Ah yes, the "ton-of-castles" of Germany - here's a short reason for the amount:
The Indian subcontinent and Germany share an element of history and that's being a cultural unit but politically divided into a ton of individual princely states.
And the period of castle building i.e. all of the European Middle Ages (~ fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 till the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453... but that's all debatable...) the Germanic Lands and from ~800 (~900) onwards where structured into the successor state of the Western Empire, the (Holy) Roman Empire, usually just "The Empire"... and every local Prince Elector, count, duke down to Imperial Knights ruling over a village with a couple hundred peasants where independent political entities.
And they *feuded* ... oh they did... fighting their endemic tiny, medium and larger wars and feuds so all of them built fortifications for both, well, fortification, but also as administrative centres.
Later, when gunpowder weapons had sufficiently advanced, fortifications changed or where effectively replaced by highly drilled armies manoeuvring in the field and fighting pitched battles, the administration of the lands was moved into impressive but completely indefensible palaces (if the army lost in the field peace was usually agreed on), essentially beautified office buildings with noble residences.
Oh and word on "The King of Germany" - it was a position actually in existence but completely irrelevant in itself since it was *always* held by the Emperor as perquisite to be voted ( yes *voted* ) Emperor by the Prince Electors (and crowned in Rome by the Pope, though even that was moved to Frankfurt without the Pope for simplicity later on).
Oh and no one ever listened to the Emperor anyway unless he had military means on his own to force, well really anyone in the Empire into compliance^^.
Well or he just could bribe them... he had to bribe the Prince Electors to be voted Emperor anyway. 😅
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You‘ve got. so much Palasses in India!
Yeah, I also would distinguish palaces from castles.
Castles are for defence. To control certain trade routes, to protect a noble family and their subjects in case of attack.
Palaces are to be representative, to be a home to noble people like dukes, earls or kings. And they just were built later in history, looking way different. In the middle ages Germany had no fix capital. The capital was were the emperor was - and he was travelling around from special castle-like residences to residences, no glorious places, but for that time safe and at least comfortable spots. The king mainly rode his horse and few thousand people followed by horses and by foot. The palaces were built from maybe the 1600s onwards, especiallly 1700s and 1800s. The castles here date back to 15th, 13th and even 11th centuries. And finally there are modern "castles" built in 1800s to look like people then romanticised the middle ages. Like Neuschwanstein or Hohenzollern or Drachenburg. They are quite new places of modernity, to look old. So very different kind of buildings in one row - some more beautiful, some more authentic and so on.
There were MANY kings in Germany - both over the centuries and simultaneously. At one point "Germany" (the area that was considered Germany back than) consisted of ~300 kingdoms and duchies and the like. All under an emperor, the so called "Kaiser" of Germany. The word "Kaiser" comes from the "Caesar" - as in Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire. The German Kaiser saw himself as a continuation of the original Roman Empire, which is why the country was called the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (in German: "Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation").
This is one of the reasons, why so many cities in central Europe have palaces and castles, as there were many rulers, who competed against each other.
The difference is more in Culture. 50 years ago, women in Germany also tend to marriage rich men. This hopefully changed. As my Grandmother told my mother „don’t rely on mens Money!“ Education is everything! All around the world!
Today, you Look so beautyful 👋🇩🇪🇮🇳
There are actually thousands of castles more. Greetings from Bonn Germany
Germany got so many castles and palaces, because it used to consist of hundreds of sovereign entities, everyone with their own rulers and residences, fortifications and such. Germany still is a federal state with its regions being influential culturally and politically. But that used to be way stronger in the past. When Napoleon subdued Germany in early 1800s, and 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved after a thousand years, that entity consisted out of more than 300 different states and independent cities. Of course the princes always had a competition of which of them is the most powerful, shining and so on... that is why in Germany today's capital is not as important to Germany as the capital is to other nations - it is a variety of regions and former capitals and residence towns.
9:15 the Berliner Stadtschloss was destroyed in WW2. Of course, the GDR did NOT reconstruct it! The GDR was a communist state that despised the monarchy. The old palace had to be torn down. In the GDR, they built the „Palast der Republik“ instead. It wasn’t a real palace, though… look it up. After the reunification the Palast der Republik was torn down… also because of ideological reasons
We have 25.000 castles in🇩🇪
There are about 25.000 castles and palaces in Germany! 🤷♂
The video doesn't even show the 100 most beautiful ones...
More Castles in Germany than McDonald’s in the USA. 😂
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