A unique moment in one of the most visited places in the world at night alone in noise Feinstein Castle in germany few people get to experience it like this. The media 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 pitches work on you its really a very magical atmosphere marking system. Restores tina nama bitch and mckayla crystal 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 a mythical creatures to be discovered. You know if i forgive you for different this you can see this year 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. Its then a case if there are 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. Fun stein was not a riginal intended for the public. 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 a loss for. This castle functions like a legend which means that its image is more powerful than whats behind them including you enjoy this castle without understanding what it represents and expresses. Some 1500000 people visit noise every year 4 times as many as schloss have in kenya which is also in bavaria. 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 craven ticha is 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 it up with this is how every work day starts for us we clean up the dirt left by about 6000 visitors every morning so that things are clean again for the next 6000 from to subways to do the styles in. Another 5 minutes then the 1st tourists arrive. During high season 20 castle guides work in parallel every day. Deferrals the voice 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 hitchens except. Stay. Fun caban teacher originally trained as a tool maker. When he was 20 he happened to come to Noyes Feinstein as a Seasonal Worker and stayed all right following race. But was working for back when i started an older colleague said to me every day a noise as an adventure can pull you. Through this very year were starting in one minutes. Little more after the close the door. I love old ladies are surrounded were fire your attention plays they. Walk up to most one stone castle most also castle was built for this temple will make the 2nd of that area that bustos how you look at in this weeks twentys and last week he became king of the area 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 tour dont hesitate to ask 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 now its been exactly 25 minutes. 16 rooms in less than half an hour. As it hits of a so here we have the 1st bottleneck in the guided to a 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 so that visitors always want to touch things anyway they have this need. Too which is what leads to the damage we can see here. More than 5000 square meters of wall surface 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 restorer this probably gets to you more anyway. But it is understandable having a have to experience is important but still we try to avoid it as best we can when its released as the from by. 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 lost what is the castle hadnt been restored because with so much splenda you dont notice the actual damage at 1st glance and its that this one and. The are 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. It looks really creepy when its magnified. Its the thought that the fact is visitors to shedding and dropping things all the time mainly textile fibers but also skin flakes hair all kinds of things and thats why we have so much dust throughout the whole room in my hood to stop of common. 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 with clothes so now i have like a sandwich several layers of oil and dirt which is really hard to remove from the banks surface. And it also causes a complete optical change surfaces that were originally meant to be honey colored now look very dark. And yet sad for the owner of it. With his castle i 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 old 2 arrests 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 they can load with a 2nd really created his own world and scans ive never read a shuffle had. This is a target its a tragedy the builder of noise Feinstein Ludovic the 2nd didnt watch strangers or anyone he had invited to enter or visit his castle he would have been horrified. But the way he built it and by keeping the public out. Here sensually laid the foundation for this story as him himself from his cut up as a 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 power here as those never get out doesnt this for the. 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 and. He was declared insane and arrested on june 12th 866. A day later he was dead. Stefan klavan techo also tells this part of the story every day to those visiting the castle. And. I listen only if there were its not hard to guide the tours with cold but every now and then a tour will unexpectedly become difficult to do this time. 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. On one side and then wham things got crazy stopped the emergency system kicked into play an automatic emergency call ordered the fire brigade i announce that a fire detector had gone off and that we had to evacuate the castle and then everyone had to get out of your own town recent leave us hundreds of people had to be evacuated. Before you saw 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 going to earth we couldnt be dilution also i. Think that it was only 40 years old when he died all the Construction Works and that after his death one of the members of the kings family didnt waste any time they print at the entrance take hits and open the castle to the public just 6 minutes past 3 stuff. About how to foot the garden he thinks people immediately began to connect this fate of this legendary and very mystical man. Lou vic the 2nd with the building. It inside there were reports in the newspapers and letters and contemporary chronicles that report that thousands gathered at the gates of 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 noisy bunch done 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 seem futile. After a day with 10 guided tours which are noisy and cramped you feel drained. 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 the way to view things that this is one of my Favorite Places because of the magnificent view of the whole incheon go castle say lake and behind that is to avoid. Hole in the facade of noise feinstein 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 end 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 so i think if this does a boon for. Me and 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 but very in landscape but it stands really tivoli alone and a view from the indus. A slum started its. 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. To that another crucial factor its integration into the natural landscape no other castle 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. Hones fungo has only 400 inhabitants but about 2000000 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 a longer stay. Many locals live from the castle but sometimes they also suffer because of it. Its this. 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 this is. I mean long runs a souvenir shop. Its been in his family for 3 generations. His home is full of noise feinstein merchandise too. 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. Were there if difficult i think the most important sales item was the postcard so besides that there were about 20 to 45 other objects for sale. Today i sell about 1500 different items so its him and. His shop is located about 100 metres below the castle. And you have you know what the weather. 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. Of body out of fuel and. His shop is one of the few which still sells a lot of souvenirs that are actually made in germany. But also mentions hot im falling off in price on the majority of people only look at the price and none of the quality. Of the strangely enough its Chinese Tourists who dont want anything made in china you know. 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 its very good there this is close and they might cost more but theyre all handmade from stone in contrast to products made in east asia or other european countries. This is these are ceramic. This one. Reason im just left. Your film in a sure. Thing ok i have a come back to. Let. You buy 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 no. Supply is not safe is it that this motion the most. Which one of us at this this point however his coworker biotic them has a different take on the castle. By this loss in my time 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 but 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 noice feinstein was not promoted over look big this 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 is this up some form of it was the very worst 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 when the bavarian tourism machine began to market all of the objects castles but especially nice bunch of us north once. The media painted noise spawn 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. Esque if if you nick then. This various sources say that walt disney came here with his wife and that if this is where he got the inspiration for cinderellas castle. These are 3 loss and even millions of people experience that castle in orlando at disney world disneyland or in tokyo talk and disrespect 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. Noice punched on reinterpreted for american tastes. The 1st Cinderella Castle was built in 1955. Thats what this is that if its 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 ship. Even if the bavarian tourist board pump millions into advertising he would need they would still never have the same effect as disney does for noise fungi automatically and free of charge. Noise as an object of projection. Today the castles real history is largely hidden behind a few cliches. If like a fairy chav looks amazing dont like something thats not real connect now we dont have anything like this its a very very good machine. But its actually very good also im. Carrying that i met. But i love the. Art historian and back was only 8 years old when he visited Noyes Feinstein 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. 00 euros today and. It was a really bizarre knapps truce objects like this butter dish with no ice depicted are from the seventys it is. Why the collection is called nice feinstein it all isnt clear to me. You know 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 noice funch time was added to the soup but here in the 20th one found out so. I picked 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 and 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 funch dying than the thing itself because it says that noise awakens a positive emotion in the consumers in the recipients but the put. The noise and brand is highly lucrative which is why the state of the various spent years in court trying to establish it as a trademark the very 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 nama bitch is looking for her colleagues hes 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. Theres something here. And these 2. This is the 1st time were doing this really going ive old the surf says that its necessary of course thats a big responsibility. On the ceiling alone some 2000 individual areas need to be restored. Mckayla crystal and 2 colleagues have been working on it for more than a year already. This is how the minstrels hall should look again. Thats used to c. S. To us and when i was 1st in the ministries 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.