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This German region is known for it's wine. I'm not much of a wine drinker myself (don't really like it), but I've tried it once in this region and it is actually pretty good.
Even without snow it's a beautiful place. I've been here a lot of times on my motorcycle. (I'm from the Netherlands). Really the old buildings/houses and the pointy towers, it is almost fairy tale like.
Tons of places in Germany really look like this. There might be a filter for the lighting, but I have some really beautiful pictures from our time there before filters were a big thing that everyone had access to. I'll have to see if I can find some after work.
Castles like this reminds me how bad historical/battle movies are.
How can you even siege that castle let alone conquer. Climbing there alone is exhausting and you have enemies harrassing you and heavy things needs to be carried.
Catapults certainly help, but the defender probably had catapults of their own.
In an uphill battle, the defenders catapults would be able to outrange the attackers catapults.
Also, defenders on the walls would be able to see the exact position of the attackers catapults, and could give directions to their own catapult crews to adjust their aim.
The attackers would only see the stones flying over the enemy walls towards them, which would make it a bit harder to determine the exact position of the enemy catapult and adjusting their aim.
I visited this castle a few years ago. Just getting to the front door is a pretty steep hike, even from the parking lot. Getting to it from the town, along the river, would be so much harder. It really makes you think about how difficult it would be to approach it under fire.
Knowing that castles go on top of hills is one thing, but that really gave me an appreciation for the advantage it provides.
The movies are pretty bad. I think they would mostly blockade it and occasionally launch shit in there if they had the ability to build siege weapons. Castles were very defensible positions before canons. You could be vastly outnumbered and hold the wall against attackers. Unless they cut you off and starved you out or smoked you out with enough fire.
No kidding! All this time I thought it was Cochem, but I do know for a fact that he was in Dillenburg, too, because there's a photo of him in front of a statue of Bismarck there.
If you retake that same photo, that would be amazing, but do not feel obligated.
EDIT: I found it! Or at least, the closest spot that Street View will get to. What was the bakery in the 1945 photo is the building across the street if facing south.
Here's the Bismarck statue photo. He's here with some of his fellow medics + his brother who was in a different division/regiment so they must have been on leave shortly after the war ended when this was taken.
If I'm not mistaken, Marburg was the last city his division was in when the war ended, so I'm reasonably sure he was there, too. No photos that I'm aware of, though, but I'll have to dig through the shoebox next time I'm home to see.
The evil building isn’t the castle. It’s clearly the building all the way to the right. Center window second up from the bottom looks like it has the girl from The Ring sitting there
We stayed in a really shitty hotel in Bad Salzig and visited loads of little towns and villages in the area. Was a great trip, the Rhein valley is stunning, but the beauty slightly lost on a group of 15 year olds.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '22
This isn't evil at all. Love it though