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a unique moment in one of the most visited places in the world at night alone in noise. fond stein castle in germany, few people get to experience it like this. the me here, not when you were alone in the consulate, not the atmosphere is completely real and magical because you never see it like that. it gives you an entirely different feel for what looked like the 2nd was trying to do i in. and if you let stories told by the peaches work on you, it's really a very magical app must be a marketing system. the to restores tina now move which mikaela cristella are among the privileged few

allowed to stay in noise sponge done at night. they're both working on the 1st major restoration of the castle and are taking the opportunity to look around in peace. the. there are hundreds of animals and mythical creatures to be discovered. the state of unified for the city front of you can see the sheer wealth of the imagination that went into the furnishings. have you noticed it in so many details and no matter where you look. so there's always something to find when it takes time to see more of us, a hispanic assist, whatever stories everywhere on every wall. yeah. so when you can just enjoy them in peace without any one blocking your vision or without having to hurry because the group has to go to the next room. that's really great. yeah, football. knowing

spanish dine was not originally intended for the public. good, big. the 2nd had wanted it all for himself, but it is this castle above all others that has become an icon around the world. the 6th floor for new at this castle, functions like a legend type, which means that its image is more powerful than what's behind them and couldn't be, sir. you enjoy this castle without understanding what it represents, an expressive loss of some $1500000.00 people visit noise punched on every year 4 times as many as last have in teams, which is also in the very officially, there is no limit to how many visitors are allowed in noise. schwann's stein is too important for bavaria, for that it's 8 am. one hour before the castle opens to tourists.

steph. enclave and teacher 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 we'll think phones either, but this is how every work day starts for us. in the next, we clean up the dirt left by about 6000 visitors every morning. so that things are clean again for the next 6000. we the subway. so the next thing is it's thousands another 5 minutes, then the 1st tour is to arrive a month during high season 20 castle guides working parallel every day. diffuse between both of these funds. the organizational management in which punched on castle cannot be compared with the management at the sister, castles of teams. and linda whole function, noise schwann's time is the machine. so we're almost like assembly line workers. we have no time for any interruptions. every 5 minutes another 60 people get ushered

in. there's really no room for hitches. the stuff enclave and teacher originally trained as a tool maker. when he was 20, he happened to come to noise fonts done as a seasonal worker and stayed alright. almost from back when i started, an older colleague said to me, every day a noise. sh lunchtime is an adventure to tell you. right here, we're starting a more minutes to close the door here. the more of your attention, please. thank you. welcome to my. as long as thing castle most watson task was to for this chapter king the big, the 2nd off, the very low pet bus. chose how are you looking to switch 20 years ago,

the week he became king of the area and it was only 18 years old. he'll tell that story 10 more times today as he's done every working day for the last 21 years. if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me. my name is steph, i'm 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 it's been exactly 25 minutes. 16 rooms in less than half an work as a gym kitchens. so here we have the 1st bottleneck in the guided tour and it took my house on busy times, around 7000 people squeeze through this narrow estate cases. and as you can see, that causes mechanical wear and tear because they bump into things where there was

damage. it's attempting to poke attitude to visit, as always, want to touch things anyway. they have this need to, which is what leads to the damage. we can see here more than 5000 square meters of wall surface are affected. they'll have to be checked for damage and repaired by the restores. a tradition of closer to noise me. because when you are invited to someone's house, you don't touch every single. i thought there's a lack of respect to the man does the restore a. this probably gets to more anyway. we thought it is understandable, having a have to experience is important to you, but still we try to avoid it as best we can hook them for people in the to discuss this to provide the capital is undergoing its 1st comprehensive restoration since it was built in 1869. the restoration is set to last 5 years. teen

anomaly, which is one of the project leaders. and the last 4 to select the costs will hadn't been restored because with so much splendor, you don't notice the actual damage. at 1st glen isn't gone. it's with this one in the news as to what she is. for example, you can see a typical plays visit as often touch. well, we have on fortunately over the last the liar of paint, the tourists caused marks and wear and tear even in places they don't get to directly such as on this treasure chest. let us shut out, it looks really creepy when it's magnified as to the fact is visit as a shedding and dropping things all the time. mainly text. all 5 is, but also skin flakes had all kinds of things. and that's why we have so much

dumpster throughout the whole room and how it my who, the stove of coming home. 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 a service that's good. so now i have like a sandwich. several layers of oil and dish, which is really hard to remove from the base surface start off. and it also causes a complete optical change surfaces that were originally meant to be honey colors. now the very dock mind one gets had for the the but i'm supposed to have with this call salon initially. well, i didn't have problems exactly, but i did think, oh god,

so many visitors and it's only from the 19th century. it integrates under the rule . all these forgotten parts of the bronx that nobody visits all tourists rush 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 load with the 2nd really created his own welto guns guns. i can have it as also have the hitchcock and it's a tragedy. the builder of noise fun, stein, lunatic. the 2nd i didn't want strangers or any one he hadn't invited to enter or visit his castle. he would have been horrified as, as far as the other thing,

but the way he built it and by keeping the public as the awesome guy, he essentially laid the foundation for this tourism himself. not put on this car as, as long as with these, you might say that an agency couldn't have done a better job than this particular builder. who actually wanted the opposite by what has it. yeah, but you know, just to boost water and there is more making the tail of noise. she punched on so compelling would be the 2nd, spent the last days of his life in the castle until he was declared insane and arrested on june 12th 18. 66. a day later he was dead. deaf enclave and pitcher also tells this part of the story every day to those visiting the castle, the, unless the on when it's not hard to guide the tours. but every now and then the

tour will unexpectedly become difficult. well, after 2 years time he and his colleagues regularly take part in emergency drills. although most of their work is a routine, an emergency situation can occur at any time as it did a few years ago, when the fire alarm went off. and then wham things got crazy start the emergency system kicked into play. you've got an automatic emergency call alerted, the fire brigade announced that a fire detector had gone off and that we had to evacuate the castle. and then everyone had to get out of here and i'm done with hundreds of people had to be evacuated before you saw the fire department looked into it and said it was a false alarm. and, you know, small flag had flown into a fire detector and set it on the modem, so we could go back into the castle. house colors. returning to the island specified the

only 40 years old when he died, all the construction which ended after his death. the members of the king's family, they didn't waste any time. they print up the entrance tickets and opened the castle to the public adjuster with the asterisk about how to put the gun in to the 6 people immediately began to connect this fate of this legendary and very mystical man losing the 2nd, helping with the building to have been tied to several reports in the newspapers and letters and contemporary chronicles that report that thousands gathered at the gates of nice lunchtime dominique was at the time. this was regarded as mass tourism and disease. today in the 21st century. i think we've left that this number is um todd novice. nothing.

the $18000.00 tourists visited noise punched on in the 1st year today that many come and just readings based lifetime noise schwann's time had a big advantage of this. 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 come home, found it. and it isn't seemly photogenic units for me. yes, the, the last tour is over, but the work doesn't stop. yeah, no, some talking with theme feeling when the whole after a day with 10 guided tours, which are noisy and cramped, you feel drain of ideas. so i go home. so we need, i'm going to jump on my bike and right up the mountain, and then i'm pretty glad not to say any one for an hour. kind see

the business of evening states. this is one of my favorite places because of the magnificent view of the whole bunch fund go castle. i'd say lake city and behind that is to hold. the facade of noise feinstein is truly really famous. there are millions of outdoor shots, but it's storied interior is rarely seen. this is how it's been for more than 100 years. the become such fun are fun, fun, it go, simon know,

sean shines fame is also connected to the appearance of the postcard as a medium for which it was constantly used to this one. spend this, if this picture of nice lunchtime both inside and out, hadn't been sent around the world. it certainly would not be so famous today in the 21st century haga items on. so it's really busy, and i think for a name that i need to compare it to the eiffel tower that isn't better than paris or the leaning tower, a piece of it, which is embedded among many other sites. one stand here, you have a stand alone solution and get the sure it's in the dramatic the varying landscape . but it stands relatively alone. tele piece. i can stand as a fond started and things fall off nice lunch tonight is like a monument on a pedestal. it emerges from the rock a lot and dominates the landscape like hardly any other building, somehow. and it's white eyes and white is seen as a symbol of purity, as the color of innocence would come to add to that another crucial factor

integration into the natural landscape. of the time on no other castle in such a grandiose location can offer that this is the village of holland schmunk, though it's here where visitors start their tour up to the castle. holdings found that it has only $400.00 inhabitants, but about $2000000.00 visitors a year. the new 4 star hotel was recently opened here, with nearly $140.00 rooms at a spot. it's an attempt to keep the tourists in the village for longer stays, the many locals lived from the castle. but sometimes they also suffer because of it

is going to lead me long have to meet the suspect, like the castle has been with me all my life game. yeah. even though this low seats, and if you see the castle for 365 days a year in your private life at home as well. and then you just want to pull back and draw the curtain long and be on your own for a while. since he said the visit is, i mean, long runs a souvenir shop. it's been in his family for 3 generations. his home is full of noise punched on merchandise to with these even turned his basement into a warehouse. the latest delivery of salt shakers has arrived. his family history reflects how marketing turns noise sponge, dine into a brand of sorts. his grandfather took over the souvenir shop in $193436.00 to have cost that ticket volume to the most important sales item was the post card. so besides matt and they were about $20.00

to $45.00 other objects for sale, see it's it. so she's in the, i think it one tight to have a today i sell about 1500 different items. so i think it in. so to meant his shop is located about a 100 meters below the castle. thank good. next you know, the bought the met him. his grandfather used to close the store for several months a year because there wasn't enough business. i mean long now keeps it open all year around 7 days a week, up to 11 hours a day. 6 foot costs and the best seller for a few years now has been fridge. magnets and different kinds in i'm body i feeling, and his shop is one of the few which still sells a lot of souvenirs that are actually made in germany. the federalist type of dimensions. all the info who will also be price from the majority of people only

look at the price and not at the quality i is as soon as i get out of the community . so strangely enough, it's chinese tourists who don't want anything made in china. kina on an or some suspect of they take pains to only buy german or european things, especially the beer mugs that they want made in germany. german product is coming year with the items for adopted this it costs. and so while you're good, they might cost more, but they're all hand made from stone. in contrast to products made in east asia or other european countries, explanation or the on the page and products. and this is, these are surrounded amik. this one is 10. you're from an issue. so rising, so i have a complex to learn kazi, make you buy you

a few years ago. i mean, long enlarged his shop by half, but he hasn't actually been up to the castle for nearly 4 decades, or he doesn't like it. there he thinks it's too dark and crowded. it has been built on the base motion, which one was it? however, his co worker b. i took it in as a different take on the castle. tell me about this just in mind. for me, the castle was always like a paradise, and it was exciting to come. uh, we had our own room and the people there had a master key. so i looked at all the rooms. i mean, you knew everyone that was familiar and lovely computers. when i go up there today, it's over in 25 minutes, so call me once once in a while, i'm still wondering whether i'm in the dining room or the bedroom. i'm probably

already in the dining room and it's incredibly fast paced now. and that's a shame has initially noise sponge done was not promoted overload big the seconds other buildings. it was just one of many castles and bavaria. hard to imagine today the sun, the van becomes a major turning point. the end of the 2nd world war and 1945 is that some sort of, it was the very was part of the americans occupation zone. and the americans took over the castles. the palaces of losing the 2nd were not reopened to the general public until the spring of 1946 was done. when the bavarian torres and machine began to market, all of lou takes castle success to do this, but especially noise lunchtime about the nice ones in the media painted noise punched on 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, the key players this development was walt disney. skip a she nixon logged us in boy. this various sources say that walt disney came here with his wife when see, and this is where he got the inspiration for cinderella's castle on these this last that leaves me millions of people. experience that castle in orlando at disney world, or disney land, or in tokyo, in, in talk your double in this respect, the idea this castle has been taken around the world. las vegas. and the great thing is that walt disney still somehow managed to make clear where the original stands for lots and lots of what is organized. the noise sponge done, reinterpreted for american tastes. the 1st cinderella castle was built in

1955 the this like this is let's 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 seniors are born, where there is this picture of the far as the many even suspect that this illustration from the saga of the holy grail was a source of inspiration. for disney's bambi the, by the should focus most game be how to even if the bavarian tourist board pump millions into advertising. so you wouldn't, they would still never have the same effect as disney does for noise fungi automatically and free of charge of noise sponge done. as an object of projection today, the castles, real history is largely hidden behind a few questions. it's like

a fairy tales like something that's not real in america. we don't have anything like this. it's a very nice you know, it's a very this is the art historian, mock with sprung and back was only 8 years old when he visited noise sponge done for the 1st time since then he's been collecting everything to do with its history . and the way it's been marketed, he's brought along the most absurd items in his huge collection, like a bit of the castle roof, which cost about $80.00 yours. put in this elisha was a really bizarre and abstruse objects like this, but our dish with no response time to pick did are from the seventy's. it is it put the doors on why the collection is called nice launched on it. all isn't clear to

manage by ne, even the decoration has no relation to the castle kindly to some flaw during the not email and friends of mine were in ireland and brought this allow me back with them quite today on this is a lot of me with your bosses this here, this is, was fairly and salami sold in ireland is german drama, supposedly it's good when a school does allow me, i guess something extra was needed to underline the quality. so the view of no response time was added to the price and then the slip on here. and there might be honest usefulness on sunday limits. i'm yet cuz i see a if you take something people perceive is very positive. that gives them a positive feeling. so then you connect that thing with one that's neutral, often enough places to, once you've seen that connection, 5 or 6 times and zip code and the neutral thing suddenly becomes imbued with the same emotion, right? the same positive attitude. hang on the so this advertising is actually saying much more about noise. she punched item the thing itself with either because it says that noise punched on a weekends, a positive emotion in the consumers,

the recipient, the skin, with the port, the key for the image shown beneath the noise fun stein 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 a one, it's case and can charge licensing fees as well as prohibit companies from using it in their advertising. and the castle is such an important advertising, simple and such a good source of revenue that it can be closed for restoration for even one day. everything has to be done during normal operations. here the minstrels hall is being restored. tina now move, which is looking for her colleague because he's supposed to be here. the minstrels hall is the largest room in the castle. and the restoration work is going on 8 meters above the tourists heads.

now you can see the details. so no, this is bullshit. damage, right? know exactly. like up on the ceiling. we'll hold the water also got down here. let me see what we're looking for. tied. very nice. there's something here. those. and these to the system yet. this is the 1st time we're doing, this is fine, really going? i the oldest son says that it's necessary. it's of course, that's a big responsibility. i'm going to finish the worker for antoine all on the ceiling alone. some 2000 individual areas need to be restored. michela costanza into colleagues have been working on it for more than a year already. this is how the minstrels hall should look again. it's just because we have some of the signature and when i was 1st and i mentioned was hold to make the offer. this is the image i had with make one. yeah. so it's really, if you take the light alone when that how it reflects off of the gold yet,

or how the color is here, interact with the sculptures into someone within squeak is really fascinating. system is and is the 1st thing in the system. right now the scaffolding is taking a lot of the light and even so the impacts of the sparkle is a bit reduced and took the 6th at this get in the it's 6 pm time for i mean, long to close up shop. you want something. okay . you pay, the stress has increased a lot in the last 30 years with more tourists, more souvenirs and longer opening hours. but it will all be over in a month. i mean, long is retiring. yeah,

same thing on the high end 9. got him. i also saw him move for decades and i've been setting up my shop in the morning, so i and cleaning it in the evenings on the time coming to see light on people come and want something then and hold me up also. and that's annoying. so i'll be glad when i'm done with it. it's nice and, and that really, really this for, by have the, i mean already has a successor lined up you know, and tends to switch sides to travel the world as a tourist the

10 o'clock at night in the castle. the visitors have been gone for 4 hours, but the restoration doesn't stop. the hordes of tourists make it impossible to work on areas such as this doorway during the day. it's come from pep and also they come up from the stairwells can only be right in the middle and then click testing. it's impossible for them to get past me license . they're usually also looking at the murals and have the audio guide. and then also i think i'd probably get trampled under foot. i think this is yeah, but only 2 items. the carefully removing the layers of oil and dirt from the wooden doors is a tedious job. and he still has several hours of work ahead of him tonight.

so this one that is confused, there's also a special feeling in a sense that perhaps no one else is experiencing something like this right now. it's something unique. this is so scientific, i think is the every winter. something happens behind noise sponge times walls that visitors and never get to see the huge chandelier and the throne room gets its annual spruce up at 8 in the morning when the swing visitors come into this great hall. the 1st thing they see is this gigantic chandelier. and the words you hear most is most like, wow,

this the chandelier weighs about a ton the little bit, i'm always amazed at how much dessler is on it. just give me half a centimeter of dust from all over the world. and there's tiny fragments. bits of shoes, soles, i knew that everything's in there. and so we've got the skill level i stefan k, been teacher, and 5 of his colleagues had been chosen to clean the chandelier. it's both a duty and an honor

if you were to go over it with a normal class like you do at home and it would be like fine sandpaper, which would remove the thin layer a cold list. of course, this must have happened, which is why we use soft lambs hairbrushes to avoid scratching the surface when we're cleaning it. they have less than an hour to finish the job. you need to stay sharp because we need to finish quickly. the 1st guest will be arriving, attending the shell, my sons on the lookout, which shines. so it looks good. it's almost new. now we can put it back up and the job's done for another year.

winter used to be the low season. 2 and the staff could catch their breath, but they can't do that anymore. they say no response done is either busy or very busy the combination of cold temperatures and tourist bringing lots of humidity into the castle is a major problem. restore teen a number which has been observing the consequences for years. for example, in the royal living room, the closest to campus, this is more or less the coldest corner in the whole castle on that. because we have 30 high humidity it condenses on the cold surfaces as if you haven't here. it's even been completely, i stop here in winter because the walls are so incredibly cold due to the weather penetrating in from outside when divorced. and imagine a cold be and a be a god with the condensation running down the outside of the glass. that's how it is

here in the cold weather without the so these very cold surfaces are permanently wet and salt dissolves into the plaster and forms little needles to press into the painting layer, leaving bit polasta underneath the bloodline. if we're gonna put some, please, a study by the fallen hole for institute shows just how big the moisture problem is . every year, taurus springs, 13 tons of water into the throne room alone. the remarkable thing is, most of it doesn't come into the castle through wet clothes, but it's created solely by the visitors, breath and sweat the sheets list on happy idea with humidity and lots of castles. but here in noise fondest on, it's on a completely different scale because the impacts revisit has is great to hear. but noise sponge done also has a great advantage. and the 19th century, good,

big the 2nd acquitted, with the latest technology such as this central heating system. it's no longer in operation. but the old heating shots can be used for a modern ventilation system today. so it's great that low think the 2nd to quit the whole castle with heating systems and as shops because now we can use the shots without having to drill new ones. shakespeare said this is much kind to to the castle and we are really very grateful that the whole thing has been preserved for us from the time that's construction. yeah. and that loop with the 2nd was so forward looking at the flight of clubs. the thing is, the full size sorted by tourists aren't aware that they're actually being blow dried in the entrance area. we've installed the

ventilation opening up here and lock it and that blows him dry and out. and then fax it again at the back up. the idea is to use the s cycles to pre dried the visitors. they come in from outside and are often very wet, so to ensure they don't bring in enough moisture. i tried to blow as much as again as possible right here in the queue all with the visitors arise in the plaza. 4 months later on a rainy may day, a chinese tours group has just arrived in owen sean go when she, when use honeymooning with his wife they book the european tour because it takes in noise sponge time. i've only ever seen outdoor footage on tv, so we're really looking forward to finally seeing it from the inside and kind of

tell us it's a real shame. it's raining like this. you love. bravo ha. this is the since the turn of the millennium, more and more chinese have been coming to noise funds, not using language retired n, as in germany for the 1st time. this is one of the highlights of our journey is what the, what you want the noise. tron, stine is the most beautiful castle in the world and the symbol of germany. the chinese pass a nation with no response. time has now gone so far that there is even a replica of it in china. the castle is a 4 star hotel in the northern chinese. metropolis of donnelly, on its owner, went to the algoy, especially to see the original. the most meticulous copy, however,

is in the world japan tile park is a home for the elderly and disabled since they can't travel, the homes operator has built the most famous site in the world on their doorstep. but only the outer facade is a copy of noise sponsored on the interior features several floors of 3 d art installations. the the tour begins. most of the chinese group have never even seen a picture of the castles interior, the fluid, it looks noble and luxurious like the middle ages to city and then it's all over of the

10 minutes a day and it was wonderful. but i'd love to come back when the sun is shining and the renovation is finished to see everything without the scaffolding and went way too fast. and we also see how i would have liked to have had more time inside. and so that i could immerse myself better in the old culture. who can you go? said after just an hour in and around the castle. they're off again. next stop venice. as far as it goes, this coverage is called forced to looking at it. now it's hard to imagine that noise sponge times fame or ever fade suicide, but you shouldn't forget people's perception of quality is changing regardless of where they come from. the thoughts we germans are also becoming more and more

quality conscious. listen ok. so you have to be careful that you offer visitors more than a quick guided tour through just a few rooms in the castle. volume escape the to be something that i for some tourist, a photo is enough and as long as it works on instagram of, if they're going to be instagram level, they need the right conditions of a done gets detailed, but they're also tourist to want to learn something we want to be taken back to the time of lou vision of it from last from ended side. so having that experience should also be provided for you because then they'll also come back and tell him where people about it and, and create the legend at home being rude to us. so how is the various intends to apply for a unesco world heritage title for noise finds time many or hoping that that will finally limit the number of visitors because of world heritage is something that shouldn't be marketed to death. the

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