A unique moment in one of the most visited places in the world at night alone in noise Feinstein Castle in germany few people get to experience it like this. The media when youre alone in the coslet night the atmosphere is completely unreal and magical because you never see it like that it gives you an entirely different feel for what ludwig the 2nd was trying to do and if you let stories told by the pitches work on you its really a very magical atmosphere system. There are. Restorers tina nama bitch and mikhail of his style or are among the privileged few allowed to stay annoyed at night. Theyre both working on the 1st major restoration of the castle and are taking the opportunity to look around in peace. There are hundreds of animals 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 if you notice it in so many details but no matter where you look theres always something to find when you pick and if you love us. Then i can see if there are stories everywhere on every wall when you can just enjoy them in peace without anyone blocking your vision without having to hurry because the group has to go to the next room thats really great. Noise and was not a riginal intended for the public good 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. Through food through this castle functions like a legend which means that its image is more powerful than whats behind you enjoy this castle without understanding what it represents and expresses. Some 1500000 people visit noice feinstein every year 4 times as many as last have in kenya say which is also in bavaria. Officially theres no limit to how many visitors are allowed in. Stein is too important for bavaria for that. Its 8 am one hour before the castle opens to tourists stefan craven ticha is one of the guides and cleaning is also part of his job. Cleaning companies are not allowed in the chambers the danger of something getting damaged is too great. So frank owns 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 for the subways to do that since its thousands. Another 5 minutes then the 1st tourists arrive. During high season 20 cassel guides work in parallel every day. To fearlessly t. Bo voice was the organizational management noise Feinstein Castle cannot be compared with the management at the sister councils of teams a and linda hope funds and noise feinstein is a machine of were almost Like Assembly line workers we have no time for any interruptions every 5 minutes another 60 people get ushered in and theres really no room for hitches and hes. Definitely been ticha 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 follow me praise. For back when i started an older colleague said to me every day a noise as an adventure for you. And we say here we are starting in one minutes. And the more after the close the door here. That the ladies are. Higher if youre attacked someplace thank you. Welcome to most lone star in castle most also castle was built for this temple well what with the 2nd all that area that bustos how you look at in this weeks twenties and the big he became king off with arya when he was. Only 18 years old hell tell that story 10 more times today as hes done every working day for the last 21 years if you have any questions tour dont hesitate to ask group my neighbors stefan and here we go. The castle tour has been timed out meticulously no delays are permissible otherwise there will be traffic jams and chaos now its been exactly 25 minutes. 16 rooms in less than half an hour. As the indigenous 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 dont pin to things and where there is damage its tempting to poke at it so that visitors always want to touch things anyway they have this need to which is what leads to the damage we can see here. More than 5000 square meters of wall surface are affected theyll have to be checked for damage and repaired by the restorers. Its really agates no course it annoys me because when youre invited to someones house you dont Touch Everything either theres a lack of respect and as a restorer this probably gets to you more anyway. But it is understandable having a have to experience is important but still we try to avoid it as best we can be when its released as the 2 from at. The castle is undergoing its 1st comprehensive restoration since it was built in 869. 00. The restoration is set to last 5 years tina nama bitch is one of the project leaders. Diems last word is along the consul hadnt been restored because with so much splenda you dont notice the actual damage at 1st glance and its that this one and. Who are here for example you can see a typical place visitors often touch where we have unfortunately already lost the layer of paint. The tourists cause marks and wear and tear even in places they dont get to directly such as on this treasure chest. It looks really creepy when its magnified. Its the thought that the fact is visitors to shedding and dropping things all the time mainly textile fibers but also skin flakes hair all kinds of things and thats why we have so much dust throughout the whole room in my hood to stop of 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 every surface was so now i have like a sandwich several layers of oil and dirt which you 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 mind and yet sad for the owner of it. With his castle initially well i didnt have problems exactly but i did think oh god so many visitors and its only from the 19th century that. There are all these forgotten pearls of the brock that nobody visits old to wrists 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 with that and scans a can of ed a shuffle have. To set targets its a tragedy the builder of noise Feinstein Ludovic the 2nd didnt watch strangers or anyone he had invited to enter or visit his castle he would have been horrified with the other thing but the way he built it and by keeping the public out. He essentially laid the foundation for this tourism himself and his players but as a few good luck if it isnt you might say that an agency couldnt have done a better job than this particular builder. Who actually wanted the opposite power here just never good now does mr hart to. And there is more making the tale of noise feinstein so compelling. Libby the 2nd spent the last days of his life in the castle until he was. Cleared 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 to be. Honest i would feel when its not hard to guide the tours its cold but every now and then a tour will unexpectedly become difficult to tourists. 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. And then wham things got crazy start the emergency system kicked in to 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 own town was to leave the house 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 all skin earth we couldnt be dolly and she also 5. 100 was only 40 years old when all the construction words and the day after his death one of the members of the kings family they didnt waste any time they printed the entrance take tips and opened the castle to the pope and they could just 6 with us through stuff. About how to fuck with god then he thinks people immediately began to connect this fate of this legendary and very mystical man. Vic the 2nd with the building. And inside there were reports in the newspapers and letters and contemporary chronicles that report that thousands gathered at the gates of nice bunch time. At the time this was regarded as mass tourism today in the 21st century i think wed laugh at this number. 18000. 00 tourists visited noise in the 1st year today that many come in just 3 days. Noise had a big advantage it was born as a tourist magnet at a time when a passion for the alps was emerging and when photography was just taking off and it is insanely photogenic. The last tour is over but the work doesnt stop. The often weve seen futile. 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 im pretty glad not to see anyone for an hour and. This is you know it even has its basis one of my Favorite Places because of the magnificent view of the whole inch fun go castle say lake and behind the door. Oh oke the facade of noise feinstein is truly world famous there are millions of outdoor shots but its storied interior is rarely seen. This is how its been for more than 100 years. To become tight on our thoughts. And fame is also connected to the appearance of the postcard as a medium for which it was constantly used that the font standard if this picture of nice feinstein both inside and out hadnt been sent around the world it certainly would not be so famous today in the 21st century id thought some of these these days of whom. I fit for me and as i know if you compare it to the eiffel tower that is imbedded in paris or the Leaning Tower of pisa which is imbedded among many other sites here you have a stand alone solution sure its in the dramatic the very end landscape but it stands relatively alone and that he has. Started his off nice sunshine is like a monument on a pedestal it emerges from the rock and dominates the landscape like hardly any other building. And its white and white is seen as a symbol of purity as the color of innocence. That should add another crucial factor its integration into the natural landscape no other castle in such a grandiose location can offer that. This is the village of hones fungo its here where visitors start their tour off to the castle. 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. Its 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. Is considered a long hot make this last 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 its the business and. I mean long runs a souvenir shop. Its been in his family for 3 generations. His home is full of noise fun stuff and merchandise too. Hes even turned his basement into a warehouse the latest delivery of salt shakers has arrived. His Family History reflects how marketing turned into a brand of sorts his grandfather took over the souvenir shop in 1934. 3 things difficult i think the most important sales item was the post card so besides that there were about 20 to 45 other objects for sale. Today i sell about 1500 different items. So at the moment. 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 wasnt enough business i mean long now keeps it open all year round 7 days a week up to 11 hours a day 6 of. The best seller for a few years now its been fridge magnets different kinds. Fuel and. His shop is one of the few which still sells a lot of souvenirs that are actually made in germany. But also to mention shelf and falling off in price but the majority of people only look at the price and none of the quality. Strangely enough its Chinese Tourists who dont want anything made in china. They take pains to only buy german our european things especially the beer mugs. They want made in germany german products i mean you know. There is a cost and your go they might cost more but theyre all handmade from stone in contrast to products made in east asia or other european countries. That this these are ceramic dami. This one. Responses have to. Go from initial there are just so i think ok i have a compact car he makes. You think you buy it you know. A few years ago i mean long and large his shop by half. But he hasnt actually been up to the castle for nearly 4 decades. He doesnt like it there he thinks its too dark and crowded with their own. Supply isnt there thank you isnt it this emotional with. Which one of us that doesnt dislike however his coworker biotic them has a different take on the castle. At this 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 when i go out there today its over in 25 minutes. While im still wondering whether im in the dining room or the bedroom im probably already in the dining room. Its incredibly fast paced now and thats a shame. Initially noice 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 without some form of it was the very worst part of the americans occupation zone and the americans took over the castles the palaces of looted 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 feinstein its a nice one stop. The media painted noise sean 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 need us in boyd this various sources say that walt disney came here with his wife and that if this is where he got the inspiration for cinderellas castle. These are close and leave millions of people experience that castle in orlando at disney world disneyland or in tokyo. And 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. Noice fun stein reinterpreted for american tastes. The 1st Cinderella Castle was built in 1955. Thats what this is that if its quite conceivable that walt disney or his studio staff got even more ideas for their work from the castle be it from the minstrels gallery or singers are or were there is this picture of the forest. Many even suspect that this illustration from the saga of the holy grail was a source of inspiration for disneys bambi. The by the should be how to even if the bavarian tourist board pump millions into advertising you would know they would still never have the same effect as disney does for noise fungi automatically and free of charge of. Noise as an object of projection. Today the castles real history is largely hidden behind a few cliches. If like a fairy tale looks amazing its like something thats not real compared to we dont have anything like a system where you feel you give a shit. But its actually very good also im. Paring. Down that. Wouldnt i love the. Art historian going back was only 8 years old when he visited Noyes Feinstein for the 1st time since then hes been collecting everything to do with its history and the way its been marketed. Hes brought along the most absurd items in his huge collection like a bit of the castle roof which cost about 80. 00 euros but in. This was a really bizarre naps truce objects like this butter dish with nice fun depicted are from the seventys it is. Why the collection is called my fun started it all is unclear to me. Even the decoration has no relation to the castle. During the ninetys friends of mine were in ireland and brought their salami back with them. He says a lot of me would get off with this head this is westphalian salami sold in ireland as german so supposedly its good. I guess something extra was needed to underline the quality so the view of nice funch time was added to the soup one here in des moines when i swung from that to get. This the if you take something people perceive as very positive that gives them a positive feeling for you connect that thing with one thats neutral often enough once youve seen that connection 5 or 6 times in 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 funch time awakens a positive emotion in the consumers in the recipients at the port city of mean whats. 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 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 cant be closed for restoration for even one day everything has to be done during normal operations here the minstrels hall is being restored. And im a bitch is looking for her colleague hes supposed to be here. The minstrels hall is the largest room in the castle. And the restoration work is going on 8 metres above the tourists heads. Now you can see the details. This is water damage right exactly like up on the ceiling the water also got down here and for the very nice. This something here. And these 2. This is the 1st time were doing this is really going over all the surfaces and its necessary that of course thats a big responsibility. On the ceiling alone some 2000 individual areas need to be restored. Mckayla crystal and 2 colleagues have been working on it for more than a year already. This is how the minstrels hall should look again. When i was 1st in the minstrels hall to make the offer and this is the image i had with me. But