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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 you're 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 it's 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. they're 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 there's 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 that's 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 what's 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 there's no limit to how many visitors are allowed in. stein is too important for bavaria for that. it's 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 we're almost like assembly line workers we have no time for any interruptions every 5 minutes another 60 people get ushered in and there's 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 we're here we're 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 week's twenty's and the week he

became king of the very earth when he 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 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 it's been exactly 25 minutes. 16 rooms in less than half an hour. our. at the gym that's 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 it's 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 they'll have to be checked for damage and repaired by the restorers. it's really not cos it annoys me because when you're invited to someone's house you don't touch everything either there's 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 i'm a bitch is one of the project leaders. and teams last what it's like the council hadn't been restored because with so much splenda you don't notice the actual damage at 1st glance and it's 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 don't get to. directly such as on this treasure chest. or the shadow it looks really creepy when it's magnified. it's 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 that's

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 didn't have problems exactly

but i did think oh god so many visitors and it's 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 it's a tragedy the builder of noise feinstein ludwick the 2nd didn't 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 couldn't log if it isn't you might say that an agency couldn't 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 it's not only if there were it's not hard to guide the tours it's 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 didn't 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 we'd 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 doesn't 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 i'm

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 it's storied interior is rarely seen. this is how it's 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 hadn't been sent around the world it certainly would not be so famous today in the 21st century i'd 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 isn't better than paris or the leaning tower of pisa which is imbedded among many other sites here you have a stand alone solution sure it's 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 it's white and white is seen as a symbol of purity as the color of innocence. so that another crucial factor it's

integration into the natural landscape no other cast so in such a grandiose location can offer that. this is the village of hones fungo it's 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. it's 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. it's been in his family for 3 generations. his home is full of noise fungi and merge and dies to. he's 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 wasn't 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 it's 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 it's chinese tourists who don't 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 they're 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. that's right do you think you about

by you know. a few years ago i mean long and large his shop by half. but he hasn't actually been up to the castle for nearly 4 decades he doesn't like it there he thinks it's 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 it's over in 25 minutes. while i'm still wondering whether i'm in the dining room or the bedroom i'm probably already in the

dining room. it's incredibly fast paced now and that's 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 cinderella's 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 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 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 disney's bambi. the by the should be a how to even if the bavarian tourist board pump millions into advertising it wouldn't 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 it's like something that's not real america really don't have anything like this it's a very very delicious. but it's actually very good also i'm. 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 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 euros today and. it was a really bizarre naps truce objects like this butter dish with nice fun depicted are from the seventy's 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 ninety's 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 it's 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 that's a good. that's the if you take something people perceive as very positive that gives them a positive feeling and you connect that thing with one that's neutral often enough once you've 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 can't 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 i'm 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 we're doing this is really going over old 2 surfaces it's necessary of course that's 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. it's 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 it's really fascinating story. a scene in the shifting right now the scaffolding is taking a lot of the lightning so the impacts the sparkle is a bit reduced and took 6 posts then. it's 6 pm time for i mean long to close up shop. if you want something. i'll tell. you they had the stress has increased a lot in the last 30 years with more tourists more souvenirs and longer opening hours. but it'll all be over in a month i mean lung is retiring. they don't know how they mind.

for decades i've been setting up my shop in the mornings and cleaning it needling. people come and want something that can hold me up that's annoying so i'll be glad when i'm done with it. and that's when you will meet this but by how. i mean already has a successor lined up. he now intends to switch sides and to travel the world as a tourist.

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. come up from the stairwell going to be right in the middle and it's impossible for them to get past me license they're usually also looking at the murals and have the audio guide. so i think i'd probably get trampled underfoot. thank you through this you know but i too have been. 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. this is just on the disc it's also a special feeling in the sense that perhaps no one else is experiencing something like this right now it's something unique. to get. every winter something happens behind noise walls that visitors never get to see. the huge chandelier in the throne room gets its annual spruce up at 8 in the morning. when visitors come into this great hall the 1st thing they see is this gigantic chandelier and the word you hear most is wow. the

chandelier weighs about a ton. but some of it i'm always amazed at how much dust there is on it half a centimeter of dust from all over the world and there's tiny fragments bits of shoe soles everything's in there. of the. school the. stefan clay been to china and 5 of his colleagues have been chosen to clean the chandelier. it's both a duty and honor. the mother of

the model if you were to go over it with a normal cloth like you do at home it would be like fine sand paper which would remove the thin layer of gold leaf. of course this mustn't happen which is why we use soft lamb's hair brushes to avoid scratching the surface when we're cleaning it . so. they have less than an hour to finish the job. what bothers you need to stay sharp because we need to finish quickly the 1st guess will be arriving at 10. share. look how it shines. it looks good almost new now we can put it back up in the job's done for another year. the.

winter used to be the low season when the staff could catch their breath but they can't do that anymore. they say stein is either busy or very busy. the combination of cold temperatures and tourists bringing lots of humidity into the castle is a major problem. restored tina nama bitch has been observing the consequences for years for example in the royal living room. the cicadas this is more or less the coldest corner in the whole castle. because we have very high humidity it condenses on the called surfaces it's even being completely i stop here in winter because the walls the so incredibly cold due to the weather penetrating in from outside just imagine a cold beer in a b.

a garden with the condensation running down the outside of the glass that's how it is here in the cold weather. so these very cold surfaces of permanently wet and salt dissolves into the plaster and forms little needles that press into the painting liah leaving bare plaster underneath when left and even not put simply here. a study by the fallen hole for institute shows just how big the moisture problem is. every year tourists bring 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 is created soley by the visitors breath and sweat. routines less than happy i deal with humidity and lots of casals but here in noise it's on a completely different scale because the impact through visit has is great to hear . but noise funch don also has

a great advantage in the 1900 century the big the 2nd equipped it with the latest technology such as the central heating system. it's no longer in operation but the old heating shops can be used for a modern ventilation system today. it's great that look at the 2nd equip the whole castle with heating systems in air shafts because now we can use the shots without having to drill new ones he said that this is much kinder to the castle and we are really very grateful that the whole thing has been preserved for us from the time of its construction. and that load with the 2nd was so forward looking. up by the end of the thing that the photos of. tourists are aware that they're actually being blow dried in the entrance area. it's a good idea we've installed the ventilation opening up here that blows warm dry air

out and then sucks it again at the back the idea is to use the epicycles to predriver the visit is. that they come in from outside and are often very wet so to ensure they don't bring in a lot of moisture i try to blow as much out again as possible right here in the q. aisle with a visit to survive the last. 4 months later on a rainy may day. a chinese tourist group has just arrived in poland. when she wing is honeymooning with his wife. they've booked the european tour because it takes in noise. somebody is i've only ever seen outdoor footage on t.v. so we're really looking forward to finally seeing it from the inside. you get you

get out of the. oh you know it's a real shame it's raining like this. this is out. since the turn of the millennium more and more chinese have been coming to noise feinstein you're paying weighing is retired and is in germany for the 1st time i. can then of that this is one of the highlights of our journey but what you want to know i shan't stein is the most beautiful castle in the world and a symbol of germany. that. the chinese fascination with noise feinstein has now gone so far that there's even a replica of it in china. the castle is a 4 star hotel in the northern chinese metropolis of dolly on. its owner went to the algo especially to see the original. the most meticulous

copy however is in rural japan. titled 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 feinstein. the interior features several floors of 3 d. art installations. the tour begins most of the chinese group have never even seen a picture of the castles interior. in footy it looks noble and luxurious like the middle ages to 30. and then it's all over.

so she said minutes again till 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. it went way too fast at that i thought i'd been taken to the way as a c.s. i would have liked to have had more time inside so that i could immerse myself better in the old culture than you can sing. after just an hour in and around the castle they're off again next stop venice. i thought you guys this coming just hold for stood looking at it now it's hard to imagine that noise feinstein's fame will ever fade. but you shouldn't forget people's perception of quality is changing regardless of where they come from we

germans are also becoming more and more quality conscious so you have to be careful that you offer visitors more than a quick guided tour through just a few rooms in the castle. and in a fight for some tourists a photo is enough as long as it works on instagram of and to be instagram of all they need the right conditions. but there are also tourists who want to learn something and want to be taken back to the time of the. site so having that experience should also be provided for because then they'll also come back until more people about it and create the legend at home the ripostes so how was it. who were for the various intends to apply for a unesco world heritage title for a noice funch time. many are hoping that that will finally limit the number of visitors because world heritage is something that shouldn't be marketed to death.

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