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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 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 pitches work on you it's 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. 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 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 there's always something to find and if you love us. it's 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 that's 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 what's 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 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 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 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 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 we're starting in one minute's. little more after the close the door. i love old ladies are surrounded we're 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 week's twenty's and last week

he became king of the area 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 tour don't 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 it's 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 it's 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 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 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 it's 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 i'm a bitch is one of the project leaders. and teams lost what is the castle 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 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 don't get to directly such as on this treasure chest. it looks really creepy when it's magnified. it's 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 that's 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 bank's 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 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 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 i've never read a shuffle had. this is a target it's a tragedy the builder of noise feinstein ludovic the 2nd didn't 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 isn't you might say that an agency couldn't have done a better job than this particular builder. who actually wanted the opposite power here as those never get out doesn't 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 it's 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 couldn't 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 king's family didn't 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 we'd 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 doesn't 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 i'm 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 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 end 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 so i think if this does a boon for. me and 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 but very in landscape but it stands really tivoli alone and a view from the indus. a slum started it's. 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. to that another crucial factor it's

integration into the natural landscape no other castle 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. 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. it's 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.

it's 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. it's been in his family for 3 generations. his home is full of noise feinstein merchandise too. 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. 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 it's 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 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. 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 i'm falling off in price on the majority of people only look at the price and none

of the quality. of the strangely enough it's chinese tourists who don't 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 it's very good there this is 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. this is these are ceramic. this one. reason i'm 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 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 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 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 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 post-war 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 cinderella's 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. that's what this is that if it'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 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 don't like something that's not real connect now we don't have anything like this it's a very very good machine. but it's actually very good also i'm. 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 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 euros today and. it was a really bizarre knapp's truce objects like this butter dish with no ice depicted are from the seventy's it is. why the collection is called nice feinstein it all

isn't clear to me. you know 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 noice funch time was added to the soup but here in the 20th one found out so. i picked 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 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 it's 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 nama bitch is looking for her colleagues he's 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. there's something here. and these 2. this is the 1st time we're doing this really going i've old the surf says that it's necessary of course that's 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. that's 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. 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. it's really fascinating. and seen in the shifting right now the scaffolding is taking a lot of the lightning so the impacts the sparkle is a bit reduced until 6 at us and. it's 6 pm time for i mean long to close up shop. if you want something. up if. you head to 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 long is retiring. they don't know how they mind.

for decades i've been setting up my shop in the mornings and cleaning it need names . people come and want something that and hold me up that's annoying so i'll be glad when i'm done with it. and that's when you will need 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. from trip mostly come up from the stairwell it's going to start be right in the middle and look at this and it's impossible for them to get past me license they're usually also looking at the murals and have the audio guide and so i think i'd probably get trampled underfoot i think the food is you know but only to 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.

but his openness on that is 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 funch times 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 dubious 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. 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. step on clay been to china and 5 of his colleagues have been chosen to clean the chandelier. it's both a duty and honor. the

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

winter used to be the low season on 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 cold surfaces it's even being completely i stop here in winter because the walls of so incredibly cold due to the weather penetrating in from outside. 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 lie on leaving bare pasta underneath when left and even when the puts in place. 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. origins less than happy idea 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 feinstein also has

a great advantage in the 1900 century the big the 2nd acquited with the latest technology such as the central heating system. it's no longer in operation but the old heating shafts can be used for a modern ventilation system today. well it's great that 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. 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 loued with the 2nd was so forward looking. over the thing that the faults of. tourists aren't aware that they're actually being blow dried in the entrance area. that's a good one too 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 f. cycles 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 shawn gallop. him she wing is honeymooning with his wife. they've booked the european tour because it takes in noise and. somebody does it i've only ever seen outdoor footage on t.v. so we're really looking forward to finally seeing it from the inside. out to the.

oh you did it's a real shame it's raining like this because it was out. since the turn of the millennium more and more chinese have been coming to noise fungi. paying wing is retired and is in germany for the 1st time. and 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. but that. the chinese fascination with noise feinstein has now gone so far that there's even a replica of it in china. the castle as a 4 star hotel in the northern chinese metropolis of dali on. its owner went to the algo especially to see the original. the most meticulous copy

however is in rural japan. 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 sean stein. 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. conflict it looks noble and luxurious like the middle ages to 30. and then it's all over.

so she said you going to do 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 without that i thought i'd been taken by. the way as 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 that is. a sword because these companies for stood looking at it now it's hard to imagine that noise and 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. it's good to talk with and in and i for some tourists a photo is enough as long as it works on instagram and to be instagram mobile 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. so how was. the various intends to apply for a unesco world heritage title for noise 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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