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#fred10# Hello, I just signed up, so I am new to this. My husband and I have just planned a trip to Germany to do a 7 day tour of castles. I am absolutely excited! This is my dream vacation and I am going to make it come true! Has anyone ever been on a castle tour to Germany, and if so, what can I expect? And our there other places that anyone would know of that does castle tours, Ireland, Scotland, etc. and wraps it up in one as far as costs go? I realize that no one can advertise, but maybe can give me some good web sites to go to.
Thank you.
ipflo hi
i have been in many parts of germany to visit castles and really depends on which part of germany where you are going, what you can expect. germany has really all sort of castles.
you can find a collection of links to german castles on the linkspage of the following website:
http://www.deutsche-burgen.org/
Merlin As I live in Switzerland and know many german castles, I can only highly recommend to go on castle-tours there. It depends on what you like to see - great ruins or romatic castles still intact. Before you start, have a look at
http://www.burgenwelt.de
The site's in german, but contains detailed information, plans and pictures of over 600 castles in germany, over 70 in Switzerland and hundreds more all over Europe.
[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited 01-30-2004).]
#fred10# Thank for responding. We are actually going on a tour by Castles of the World and this spring and summer it will be King Ludwig's Castles and the Bavarian Lakes. What is shown on the internet is absolutely beautiful. The castles/palaces that we will be visiting are Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangua, Linderhof, Herrenchiemsee, and Nyphenburg. I am definitely excited! Of course, when I think of a castle, I think of the whole romantic/fairy tale scene from a movie, but I do realize that there is much more to a castle than that. I am very interested in the history and actual building of castles themselves and have purchased quite a few books to get somewhat aquainted before we go on our trip, which is not until the beginning of June. I am hoping that every two years my husband and I can pick a trip and tour different castles throughout the world!
Merlin I'm sad to hear that... King Ludwigs castles in Bavaria! Phoa. They're as near to a real medieval castle as the earth is to Mars.
Peter Hi Merlin,
must admit I do chuckle over 'our' respones to those particular castles. I fully agree with you ... it is like waving a red-flag at a bull though.
I have not visited many in Germany (sorry to say), but for the same effect and genuine, you can't beat Burg Eltz.
ipflo I totally agree with Peter, Burg Eltz is probably the most lovely castle of Germany, hidden away in a beautiful valley.
With regard to 'those castles' I also fully agree with Peter and Merlin, they aren't castles. They are big palaces or mansions. Especially the Nymphenburg is worth visiting, it is a beautiful palace from the 17th and 18th century in a big park with many follies in a suburb of Munich.
Also Hohenschwangau is a nice neogothic mansion of the father of Ludwig II. Herrenchiemsee has its charm in the fact that the building isn't finished and its on beautiful island. With respect to Linderhof I have good memories when I visited it when I was about 4 ot 5 years old (the guide did a great tour for little children like me then, with secret passages). And to Neuschwanstein I just can say I dislike it, I have been there once, there are too many tourists and the building is too big, too rough, and it feels too cold. Normally I love every castle and mansionhouse (also teh castellad ones from the 19th century like Kreuzenstein, or Hohenzollern or Marienburg near Hannover), but just not this one. But i am glad it is there, because it proceeds much money for the 'Bavarian Castle and gardens trust', which maintains many real castles (p.e. Burghausen) and palaces, buildings who really can use the money.
Peter Ah!
I didn't realise that entrance monies for the one we wont mention went to fund others.
You live & learn.
So it does serve some purpose.
#fred10# Gee! I did not realize that I would have so many disappointed responses. Maybe I should cancel our tour, since it is not a 'real' castle tour.
ipflo no i don't think you shouldn't cancel your tour, because it is not tour of real castles, or because we say we don't like that particular red white castle.
I think it is a worthwhile visit to do, you visit one of the most beautiful countrysides of Germany. Nymphenburg is really a beautiful palace a voyage worth, also Munich is a fine city with its biergartens. And the other places are also nice places to visit or at least to have been there, they are placed on a beautiful places. I for my part I am glad to have been there in Neuschwanstein, it was to say an experience through which I admire other castles much more.
Merlin Why cancel your trip? If Neuschwanstein is the type of building you like to visit, then do it!
I never was to Neuschwanstein and think I never will. But I was at Hohkoenigsburg (France) and Karlstejn (Czech Republic), which are both gigantic, filled with tourists - and not realy medieval. Shaped from ruines to what tourists like to see. I miss the 'aura' at such places, something one could call the 'smell of history'.
#fred10# I'm sure that this tour is all that I want it to be and more. It's not just the castles, but it's meeting new people and going to a different country. I think that it is wonderful to be able to see and do things from outside of where one lives. There are all walks of life out there!
Merlin ...and why not ask your tour-guide if it would be possible to visit a 'real' castle in between? There are a lot of them in Bavaria!
#fred10# Good idea! We will be staying in Munich a day or two after the tour is over, just to have some time to look around, although I think my husband would be more interested in the BMW building!
ipflo Good info about the places you are going to visit, you can find on the site of the Bayerische Schl�sserverwaltung (~Bavarian castletrust). This trust looks after all the places you are going to visit and much more.
http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/englisch/schloss/index.htm
#fred10# Thank you! Very helpful!