Does anyone recognize the castle in the "lets make your house look like this" ad. (I took a picture but can't figure out how to post it here)! Beautiful castle on a precipice?
Kaye
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19261 posts
Unless I can see the picture, how can I tell you where it is?
Posted by
Vernon, Canada
32345 posts
Kaye,
Is this the Castle you're referring to at about the 18 second mark in the video.....
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7afK/the-home-depot-this-way-that-way
I'm not sure which Castle that is?
Posted by
San Diego
552 posts
Posted by
San Diego
552 posts
http://www.burg-hohenzollern.com/castle-history.html
That Romantic Era parody of Gothic style is what made it easy to look for.
Posted by
OP
Folsom, California, USA
322 posts
Yes, yes, yes!!! That's it. You are all so smart! I knew I could count on the RS forum to know the answer. Thanks!!!
Kaye
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19261 posts
This beautifully illustrates the blurring of the distinction in German between a Burg (castle) and a Schloss (palace) discussed in an earlier thread. Neuschwanstein was built in the mid/late 1800s as an apartment for a king (Ludwig) to live in. It was built on a mount, near his childhood home, site of earlier castles. As a boy, he dreamed of building a castle there. Some people claim that, because of the time of it's construction and it's purpose, it's a Schloss, not a Burg.
But Hohenzollern was built at almost the same time, maybe a decade or two earlier, as an apartment for King Frederick William, the father of Wilhelm I, first Kaiser of Germany, who dreamed of building a new castle on the site of one built by his ancestors. It is so similar to Neuschwanstein, but no one seems to challenge that it's called a castle.
I was surprised when I visited it to find that, despite it's appearance in pictures, it is really not much larger than Neuschwanstein.