A unique moment in one of the most visited places in the world at night alone in noise castle in germany few people get to experience it like this. When youre alone in the coslet night the atmosphere is completely unreal and magical because you never see it like that it gives you an entirely different feel for what ludwig the 2nd was trying to do and if you let stories told by the pictures work on you its really a very magical atmosphere system. Restorers tina gnome of each and mikhail of chris starla are among the privileged few allowed to stay annoyed at night. Theyre both working on the 1st major restoration of the castle and are taking the opportunity to look around in peace. There are hundreds of animals and mythical creatures to be discovered. Still fearful for you for different to see you can see the sheer wealth of imagination that went into the furnishings you notice it in so many details but no matter where you look theres always something to find and if you love us. If they can see if there is stories everywhere on every wall when you can just enjoy them in peace without anyone blocking your vision without having to hurry because the group has to go to the next room thats really great. Noise and was not a regionally intended for the public mood being the 2nd had wanted it all for himself. But it is this castle above all others that has become an icon around the world. This is true for. This castle functions like a legend which means that its image is more powerful than whats behind you enjoy this castle without understanding what it represents an expressive. Some 1500000. 00 people visit noise feinstein every year 4 times as many as schloss have in kenya say which is also in the barrios. Officially theres no limit to how many visitors are allowed in. Stein is too important for bavaria for that. Its 8 am one hour before the castle opens to tourists Stefan Claiborne to chose one of the guides and cleaning is also part of his job cleaning companies are not allowed in the chambers the danger of something getting damaged is too great. So often phones you know this is how every work day starts for us we clean up the dirt left by about 6000 visitors every morning for the things are clean again for the next 6000 for the subways for the next and 6. 00 in. Another 5 minutes then the 1st tourists arrive. During high season 20 cassel guides work in parallel every day. The difference between both place was the organisational management noise Feinstein Castle cannot be compared with the management at the sister councils of teams a and linda hope noise feinstein is a machine were almost Like Assembly line workers we have no time for any interruptions every 5 minutes another 60 people get ushered in and theres really no room for hitches and. Stefan claiborne teacher originally trained as a tool maker. When he was 20 he happened to come to noyes found stein as a Seasonal Worker and stayed all right follow me plays. Almost back when i started an older colleague said to me every day a noise as an adventure tell you. That were here were starting on minutes. Little more after closing the door and your. Fellow ladies are sounding worth your attention please thank you. Welcome to most long stone castle most also castle was built for this temple well the big the 2nd of that area that bustos how you look at in this weeks twentys and the week he became king of the very earth when he was only 18 years old hell tell that story 10 more times today as hes done every working day for the last 21 years if you have any questions to her own eyes and say to us quote my name is stefan and here we go. The castle tour has been timed out meticulously no delays are permissible otherwise there will be traffic jams and chaos so now its been exactly 25 minutes. 16 rooms in less than half an hour. Our. At the gym thats just so here we have the 1st bottleneck in the guided to a halt on busy days around 7000 people squeeze through this narrow staircase as you can see that causes mechanical wear and tear because they dump into things and where there is damage its tempting to poke at it with visitors always want to touch things any way they have this need to which is what leads to the damage we can see here. More than 5000 square meters of war service are affected theyll have to be checked for damage and repaired by the restorers. Its really not cos it annoys me because when youre invited to someones house you dont Touch Everything either theres a lack of respect and as a restore of this probably gets to more anyway. But it is understandable having a have to kicks perience is important but still we try to avoid it as best we can be on the 2 list as the 2 from my. The castle is undergoing its 1st comprehensive restoration since it was built in 869. 00. The restoration is set to last 5 years. And im a bitch is one of the project leaders. And teams last what its like the council hadnt been restored because with so much splenda you dont notice the actual damage at 1st glance and its that this one and. The ones here for example you can see a typical place visitors often touch where we have unfortunately already lost the layer of paint on. The tourists cause marks and wear and tear even in places they dont get to. Directly such as on this treasure chest. Or the shadow it looks really creepy when its magnified. Its the thought that the fact is visitors the shedding and dropping things all the time mainly textile fives but also skin flakes hair all kinds of things and thats why we have so much dust throughout the whole room how it my who to stop of comment. For decades the wood was regularly polished with oil. But that was a big mistake because it caused even more dirt to stick to the surface. As a piece that was so now i have like a sandwich several layers of oil and dirt which is really hard to remove from the base surface. And it also causes a complete optical change surfaces that were originally meant to be honey colored now look very dark lie and one can get sad for the donkey of it. But in sloth there with his castle initially well i didnt have problems exactly but i did think oh god so many visitors and its only from the 19th century that. There are all these forgotten pearls of the brock that nobody visits all tourists rushed to this one so i was a little skeptical at 1st but in the meantime i have really fallen in love with the castle because you truly see that the key unload with the 2nd really created his own world he obviously thought and scans i had never read a shuffle had. This is the target its a tragedy the builder of noise Feinstein Ludwick the 2nd didnt watch strangers or anyone he had invited to enter or visit his castle he would have been horrified the. But the way he built it and by keeping the public out. He essentially laid the foundation for this story as him himself this cut as if he couldnt log if it isnt you might say that an agency couldnt have done a better job than this particular builder who actually wanted the opposite just. These thoughts. And there is more making the tale of noise feinstein so compelling. Looking the 2nd spent the last days of his life in the castle until he was declared insane and arrested on june 12th 866. A day later he was dead. Stefan klavan teacher also tells this part of the story every day to those visiting the castle. And its not only if there were its not hard to guide the tours its cold but every now and then a tour will unexpectedly become difficult well at its worst. He and his colleagues regularly take part in emergency drills although most of their work is routine an emergency situation can occur at any time as it did a few years ago when the fire alarm went off. The rocks and then whammo things got crazy for the emergency system kicked into play an automatic emergency call ordered the fire brigade so i announced that a fire detector had gone off and that we had to evacuate the castle and then everyone had to get out of your home town was through i hear them. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated. Before you know. The Fire Department looked into it and said it was a false alarm a small fly had flown into a fire detector and set it off so we could go back into the castle also goodness we could be dolly and she will suffice. It was only 40 years old when all the Construction Works and the day after his death one of the members of the close family didnt waste any time they printed the entrance take to open the castle to the pope and they could just 6 with us through. The put the god then he thinks people immediately began to connect this fate of this legendary and very mystical man living the 2nd with the building. Inside there were reports in the newspapers and letters in contemporary chronicles that report that thousands gathered at the gates of nice french time. At the time this was regarded as mass tourism. Today in the 21st century i think wed laugh at this number. 18000. 00 tourists visited noise punched on in the 1st year today that many come in just 3 days. Noise had a big advantage it was born as a tourist magnet at a time when a passion for the alps was emerging and when photography was just taking off and it is insanely photogenic. The last tour is over but the work doesnt stop. When the docking would soon funeral. After a day with 10 guided tours which are noisy and cramped you feel drained. As well so i go home and i jump on my bike and ride up the mountain. And then im pretty glad not to see anyone for an hour and see. This is you know one of the evenings this is one of my Favorite Places because of the magnificent view of the whole inch fun go castle say lake and behind the horde. Or hold the facade of noice fun stein is truly world famous there are millions of outdoor shots but its storied interior is rarely seen. This is how its been for more than 100 years. To become type one i thought. Famous also connected to the appearance of the postcard as a medium for which it was constantly used to the front and if this picture of nice feinstein both inside and out hadnt been sent around the world it certainly would not be so famous today in the 21st century id thought so at the least these days of the info i think when named as i know if you compare it to the eiffel tower that isnt better than paris or the Leaning Tower of pisa which is imbedded among many other sites here you have a stand alone solution sure its in the dramatic the very end landscape but it stands relatively alone and the view from this. Study is. Nice feinstein is like a monument on a pedestal it emerges from the rock and dominates the landscape like hardly any other building. And its white and white is seen as a symbol of purity as the color of innocence. So that another crucial factor its integration into the natural landscape no other cast so in such a grandiose location can offer that. This is the village of hones fungo its here where visitors start their tour up to the castle. Own xango has only 400. 00 inhabitants but about 2000000. 00 visitors a year. A new 4 star hotel was recently opened here with nearly 140 rooms and a spa. Its an attempt to keep the tourists in the village for longer stays. Many locals live from the castle but sometimes they also suffer because of it. Because the castle has been with me all my life. If you see the castle for 365 days a year and your private life at home as well then you just want to pull back and draw the curtains and be on your own for a while as he says a business. I mean long runs a souvenir shop. Its been in his family for 3 generations. His home is full of noise fungi and merge and dies to. Hes even turned his basement into a warehouse the latest delivery of salt shakers has arrived. His Family History reflects how marketing turned into a brand of sorts his grandfather took over the souvenir shop in 1934. The most important sales item was the postcard so besides that there were about 20 to 45 other objects for sale for. Today i sell about 1500 different items. And. His shop is located about 100 metres below the castle. And you have your mother. His grandfather used to close the store for several months a year because there wasnt enough business i mean long now keeps it open all year round 7 days a week up to 11 hours a day 6. The best seller for a few years now its been fridge magnets different kinds. To go in and. His shop is one of the few which still sells a lot of souvenirs that are actually made in germany. Of course mention shelf and for who often the majority of people only look at the price and none of the. God the king strangely enough its Chinese Tourists who dont want anything made in china. Or songfest they take pains to only buy german or european things especially the beer mugs they want made in germany german products i mean you know at the very good look there is a close and they might cost more but theyre all handmade from stone in contrast to products made in east asia or other european countries. That is these are ceramic dami. This one i just want to respond to. Your from the nation there are. Things ok i have a compact car the next. Thats right do you think you about by you know. A few years ago i mean long and large his shop by half. But he hasnt actually been up to the castle for nearly 4 decades he doesnt like it there he thinks its too dark and crowded basement only supply is not safe and says that this motion the misra which one was it was just like however his coworker biotic them has a different take on the castle. For me the castle was always like a paradise it was exciting we had our own room and the people there had a master key so i looked at all the rooms. You knew everyone it was familiar and lovely when i go out there today its over in 25 minutes. While im still wondering whether im in the dining room or the bedroom im probably already in the dining room. Its incredibly fast paced now and thats a shame. Initially noise funch dining was not promoted over look big the seconds other buildings it was just one of many castles in bavaria hard to imagine today. Then comes a major turning point the end of the 2nd world war in 1905 this was not something that it was very was part of the americans occupation zone and the americans took over the castles the palaces of looting the 2nd were not reopened to the general public until the spring of 1946 don when the bavarian tourism machine began to market all of the objects castles but especially nice feinstein obviously so nice once. The media painted noice von stein as a symbol of the revival of postwar germany. There was actually no connection at all but it worked all the same. More and more International Visitors started coming such as japanese and especially americans. A key player in this development was walt disney. A skiff if you make the void this various sources say that walt disney came here with his wife and that this is where he got the inspiration for cinderellas castle. These are close and leave millions of people experience that castle in orlando at disney world disneyland or in tokyo talk in this respect the idea of this castle has been taken around the world and the. Great thing is that walt disney still somehow managed to make clear where the original stands lots of. Noice fun stein reinterpreted for american tastes. The 1st Cinderella Castle was built in 1955. The sort this thing is that if lets quite conceivable that walt disney or his studio staff got even more ideas for their work from the castle be it from the minstrels gallery or singers arbor where there is this picture of the forest. Many even suspect that this illustration from the saga of the holy grail was a source of inspiration for disneys bambi. The by the should be a how to even if the bavarian tourist board pump millions into advertising it wouldnt they would still never have the same effect as disney does for noise fungi automatically and free of charge of. Noise fun as an object of projection. Today the castles real history is largely hidden behind a few cliches. If like a fairy chav looks amazing its like something thats not real america really dont have anything like this its a very very delicious. But its actually very good also im. Paring knife i like that and i love the. Art historian going back was only 8 years old when he visited noyes funch done for the 1st time since then hes been collecting everything to do with its history and the way its been marketed. Hes brought along the most absurd items in his huge collection like a bit of the castle roof which cost about. 80 euros today and. It was a really bizarre naps truce objects like this butter dish with nice fun depicted are from the seventys it is. Why the collection is called my son started it all is unclear to me. He even the decoration has no relation to the castle so during the ninetys friends of mine were in ireland and brought this salami back with them. This is a lobby with this head this is westphalian salami sold in ireland as german so supposedly its good. I guess something extra was needed to underline the quality so the view of nice fungi was added. On here. When i floss and thats a good. Thats the if you take something people perceive as very positive that gives them a positive feeling and you connect that thing with one thats neutral often enough once youve seen that connection 5 or 6 times then the neutral thing suddenly becomes imbued with the same emotion the same positive attitude so this advertising is actually saying much more about noise than the thing itself because it says that noise awakens a positive emotion in the consumers the recipients the pussy. The noise brand is highly lucrative which is why the state of the various spent years in court trying to establish it as a trademark of area one its case and can charge licensing fees as well as prohibit companies from using it in their advertising the castle is such an important advertising symbol and such a good source of revenue that it cant be closed for restoration for even one day everything has to be done during normal operations here the minstrels hall is being restored. Tina and im a bitch is looking for her colleague is he supposed to be here. The minstrels hall is the largest room in the castle. And the restoration work is going on 8 metres above the tourists heads. Now you can see the details. This is water damage right exactly like up on the ceiling the water also got down here and for good very nice. This something here. And these 2. This is the 1st time were doing this is really going over old 2 surfaces its necessary of course thats a big responsibility. On the ceiling alone some 2000 individual areas need to be restored. Mckayla christology and 2 colleagues have been working on it for more than a year already. This is how the minstrels hall should look again. It seems to. Us and when i was 1st in the minstrels hall to make the offer and this is the image i had with me. Its really if you take the light alone and how it reflects off the gold or how the colors here interact with the sculptures and to some its really fascinating story. 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