For those who don't know; this thing was a vanity project built by the king of one of those fake German principalities in the last half of the 19th century. It wasn't finished until the 1890s. It's a totally ridiculous vanity project.
This whole thread is a disgusting, slanderous mess. Americans, of all people, having the gall of insulting Bavarian high culture! I'm positively appalled and will have to seriously ponder future visits and contributions to this site.
You people make me sick. Go eat a vegan burger or visit your Orange Julian, but stop hating on the wonders of Upper Bavaria.
My cat would love it. I'd use like, 3 rooms and use the rest to skulking around and pretend I'm a vampire because when left alone in a cool setting I become 8
It's also empty inside because the guy ran out of money before doing the interiors
Right after he posted this, he went back to his day trading job staring at 10 monitors inside his McMansion
they are very pretty though
best solution: build ridiculous but pretty vanity projects like this, but turn it into a bunch of decently sized affordable apartments
win-win
Also give me one at the end of a long and narrow path up a hill where lighting is just constant somehow and a lil village at the base. I'll get up to various small scale misdeeds and people will have a lot of fun thwarting me on a weekly basis.
https://mibiz.com/sections/real-estate-development/stately-quarters-or-royal-mess-polarizing-grand-castle-embodies-developer-s-dream-for-luxury-living
i just posted a comment about this before seeing your comment lol. glad i wasn't the only one who thought of this
I went to one in Germany and it was just a museum with a cafe and a bunch of seats where people could hang out. Tbh if we had castles in America they'd be made into shopping malls, surrounded by the freeway and have a 300 acre parking lot
i remember reading that some developer built a big ass castle recently in illinois or indiana and rented out apartments in it. the thing looks like shit and has a super low occupancy rate because it's in a shitty location and is way too big for its small maintenance staff so the place constantly stinks
edit: it's called the Grand Castle near Grand Rapids MI and it was explicitly based on Neuschwanstein. from reddit, so take it with a grain of salt, but this is what I remember having read about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/grandrapids/comments/t00bzs/review_after_three_years_at_the_grand_castle/ several commenters and the OP believe it will literally collapse before too long
In its issue of August 8, the Boston Pilot had a very interesting article upon the life of a typical Irish girl of ancient Ireland. The article dealt with the life of the ancient Irish as it has been reconstructed by antiquarians from a study of the gold and silver ornaments found in various bogs in Ireland, and from the allusions to the use of those ornaments made in old Irish manuscripts
All this is interesting, especially to those who desire to have their Irish patriotism or pride of race buttressed up by historical data. And, of course, there are many such.
I, also, was much interested in the article, but for another reason. To me it was especially interesting as illustrative of the curious effect modern property relations have upon the mind of even the most gifted amongst us. The gifted authoress of the article in question took as the imaginary subject of her sketch an ancient Irish princess and reconstructed her life in the most ingenious manner, describing her lying down and uprising, her hunting and riding and chess-playing and sweet-hearting and, in fact, all the incidents in which an Irish princess is revealed or touched upon by the old Irish manuscripts in song or story.
In all of those pursuits she was waited upon by a slave woman, a different slave woman for each separate amusement; in all, there must have been at least a dozen different slave women waiting upon the one princess, and what appeared to my cold Socialistic mind as curious was that the writer wrote and treated of the princess as a typical ‘colleen’ of ancient Ireland, and utterly neglected to recognise in the slave women any right to be regarded as Irish types at all.
Yet when we remember that for every princess living the life of luxury and ease sketched by the Pilot writer there must have been at least a dozen other women attending her and a hundred other Irish women working in the fields attending cattle and weaving and spinning to feed and clothe and house and ornament her, it must be conceded that any one of these hundred useful Irish women had more right to be considered ‘typical Irish colleens’ than the useless drone whose life our authoress has reconstructed with such loving fidelity and care.
By all means tell us about the typical colleens of ancient Erin, shake up for us the dry bones of history and tell us about the wives and mothers and daughters of the producing classes of our native country, but do not ask us to believe that a princess was anything more than a type of the class to which she belonged – a predatory useless class – a class whose predatory proclivities hindered the free development of the nation and prepared the way for its subjection.
What a history that would be which would tell us the history of the real women of Ireland – the women of the people ! What a record of ceaseless suffering, of heroism, of martyrdom! What a recital of patient toil, of uncomplaining self-sacrifice, of unending abnegation! Aye, and what a brilliant tale of things accomplished, of deeds done, of miracles achieved!
Think of all the insurrections against British tyranny in Ireland, and as you honour the men who went out to front the armed force of the oppressors think also of the brave women who kissed them and cried over them ere they went, but bade them go for freedom’s sake.
Think of all the slimy roll of informers in Erin, and wonder when you remember how seldom even tradition places a woman’s name upon the list.
Think of the long and bloody history of the fight against private property in Irish land – against Irish landlordism, and when you remember how the Irish mother, the woman of the house, consented to suffer eviction and ruin rather than let her husband betray the cause of his friends and neighbours, then if you believe in a God thank Him for the spirit and courage and honour of our Irish womanhood.
But then you will not be accepting princesses as the types of Irish life, you will be looking for types of the real womanhood of Ireland where only they can be found, among the producing classes.
Those Irish girds who in the recent dock strike in Belfast joined their fathers and brothers and sweethearts in the streets to battle against the English troops imported in the interests of Irish capitalism are to my mind a thousand times more admirable ‘types of Irish colleens’ than the noblest bean uasal of Gaelic Erin much as I admire the latter.
What would we think of the historian who would picture the life of the daughter of an Irish aristocrat of today, and then tell us that this was a picture of the life of a typical Irish girl of the twentieth century? We would laugh him to scorn. Yet that is the manner in which history is written.
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Gee, I wonder why more people don't build giant castles with 1000 rooms requiring a small army of cleaners and grounds keepers in order to keep it maintained. It seems so practical!
We literally have skyscrappers, tho. Like, far larger and more architecturally complex. They're significantly more expensive to build. They've got all sorts of modern amenities. They're well-insulated and highly durable. They look nicer.
Go stack this shithole up against the Burj Khalifa. Its completely washed. Then go check out Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore or Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai or the Tokyo Skytree or the Shard in London. All far larger and more dramatic. All requiring significantly more maintenance and support. All monuments to the abundant wealth and labor power of the region.
People do build giant castles in the modern day. This nostalgia porn is pure ignorance.
I disagree I say build giant soviet stype housing blocks with gothic architecture. That way regular people will also get to live lives surrounded by art and with a real sense of atmosphere
a comment here refers to the thousands of rooms such a place will contain but I posit that a building like this with thousands of rooms and large areas set apart for amenties is actually a pretty good layout for a state built housing system
In Austria they took the old palaces, manors, and castles and turned them into communal buildings and it rules
Clean it sounds like a nightmare. And electrifying it, adding to it, and maintaining infrastructure sounds difficult (I imagine with no experience)
Wait that's what it looks like? It's so shit! If your entire thing is "Hey come stay in a castle" at least make the damn thing look like a castle. It just looks like a normal modern ass building with turrets glued to it. It looks like something made in France in, like, the period in between castles being useful and castles being a status symbol where the engineers hadn't figured out regular modern mansions yet.
When I was a child, there was a kids clothing store called Children's Castle. It had turrets and looked kinda like a castle! So cool! Then I got just a little bit older and realized the turrets were just cosmetic and it was just a typical strip mall store with some nonsense going on at the top of the facade. Very disappointing. Anyway, the guy who built this apparently has the brain of a 5 year old, because this is basically the same thing, but an apartment building.
We could hire Ukranians to build castles on the cheap.
