American Reacts Eltz Castle in Germany: Would you like to live here?

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[@hardcorecwtchers8000]

I visited Burg Eltz 50 years ago when I was a university student - it was really breathtaking. It was September during the local Weinfest - with lots of German sausages and glasses of Mosel wine.

[@Attirbful]

a friend of mine actually grew up there. Her father was the chief administrator of the castle. And yes, the owner’s family still live there. So cool!

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

Yes, 'county' is from the land held by a (continental European) Count. In England/UK the equivalent title and rank of nobility is that of an Earl. Though in Saxon England, an Earl (from Norse 'Jarl') was actually a far greater man, running an entire region. Each equivalent to what earlier had been the major independent pre-unification kingdoms (East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex, etc)

[@MrMillhouse72]

The Earl of Eltz was a costumer to the company I’ve worked for in the early 90’s. An elegant and tall man in his mid 50’s. I didn’t know him. That was our first meeting. So when I asked him for a business card, he smiled, opened his wallets, put out a 500DM note, turned it around and placed on the table. “Young man” he said. “The Castle on this 500Mark Note is the Eltz Castle.” Then he pointed to himself and smiled, “And I’m the Earl of Eltz”.

[@Thisandthat8908]

feels like a rather expensive way of showing off to strangers :)

[@MrMillhouse72]

@@Thisandthat8908 Unfortunately, he put his “Business Card” back in his wallet 😁

[@rosetoren3881]

Honestly? I would flex the same way, who doesn't? 😂

[@tortepasti2]

@@MrMillhouse72 a shame really! 😂

[@palantir135]

Been there twice. It’s a very beautiful castle. The whole Eifel region is full of history. Visit Aachen, the main town of Charlemagne, Karl der Grosse, Charles the great. You need more than a blanket to keep warm in winter in the Eifel. You can’t just put on a suit of armor because it would be dangerous for you. It would have to be specially made to fit you so you could move free and safely.

[@headhunter1945]

The way it is located in the valley is beautiful but I imagine that it catches even less sun than usual. In summer, perhaps that is actually a nice feature, but I'm sure in German winters it could indeed get bitterly cold.

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

The castle was originally shared by different branches of the same family (each adding its own buildings to the complex), but was in 1815 "reunited" in the ownership of the main branch of Eltz-Kempenich, also known as the "Grafen und Edlen von und zu Eltz, genannt Faust von Stromberg" (Earls and Nobles from and at Eltz, called Fist of Stromberg). The current Earl, Karl Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz-Kempenich, lives mainly in Frankfurt/Main and at the Eltz estate at Eltville / Rhine (which includes an old winery, Eltville being a vineyard town). Family members live from time to time in some apartments at Eltz Castle.

[@RustyDust101]

Dankeschön, wieder was gelernt. 👍

[@KeesBoons]

I don't need a castle, but if I could have a jester ;o).

[@dnocturn84]

Certainly a beautiful place. What makes this one special for me, is the fact that the original owner family still lives there, while most other beautiful castles are only a tourist attraction or a museum today.

[@reindeer7752]

The owner clearly stated that he does stay overnight, eat meals there, etc.

[@reindeer7752]

@geranienbaum That's what I stated. Why make a big deal over this?

[@berndheghmanns1437]

Hello, I can say that living in a castle has its advantages and disadvantages. I grew up in one myself. The advantages are definitely, 1. you don't need air conditioning, 2. hardly anyone knows that someone lives in there. 3. you play very well in it. Disadvantages are 1. Depending on what kind of castle it is, it can be very fun to get furniture in there. It also depends on where the apartment is in the castle. 3. Due to monument protection, it is very difficult to install an elevator. 4. if you live in it you have your obligations, on public holidays and memorial days you have to fly your flags and in the evening you have to catch up with them again. You usually have to climb the towers to do this. If you then have 3 or 4 towers, which you then ran up and down again, then you know what you have done.

[@carnifaxx]

It's also very cold in there during winter - if he means the actual castle, not the surrounding buildings for janitors etc. (but even there). Also during winter (depending on the area, of course) it may be hard to get your supplies and access to medical help, if needed.

[@johnp8131]

Visited Burg Eltz for the first time back around '83 whilst on our honeymoon. The road from the Castle down towards the River Mosel is pretty long and steep, I had a VW Scirocco back then and the brakes on cars back then weren't as good as today. Quite hair raising on the way down once they got a bit too hot!

[@RustyDust101]

Suits of armor were all custom made. As the legs did not stretch like cloth they had to be measured exactly to the person. What you are seeing in the video are tailor-made, or rather smithy-made for one person. Underneath the metal you'd wear different layers of padding, like a gambeson for the torso and the arms. As a LARPer I own a set of LARP plate armor, which is between 1.2 to 1.5 mm thick, roughly 1/20th of an inch. Interestingly enough, you are not as immobile as you may think. Show-fight armor is a tad thicker as it has to prevent some real, full-contact blows from weapons from causing serious injuries. Jousting armor was often much thicker to prevent even the blunted lances from causing too much damage. Some were so heavy that knights had to be lifted into the saddle with a small crane. In those you were barely able to walk comfortably. Obviously the quality of the steel from that time can't compare to modern high-tech steel, but the smiths certainly knew what they were doing back then, allowing the armor to be thicker at some, and thinner at other areas to save as much weight while still retaining protection.

[@shadybacon3451]

My gf is from a city not far from Burg Eltz Castle and knows the family. The Eifel region is full of castles, over 1100 alone are in Rhineland-pfalz.

[@bill-wd7zs]

With all due respect I bet you don't know what it's like to be cold. I'm English, ex army and also used to ride a motorbike, it gets in your bones and wears you down.. Summer is great though! :)

[@williambranch4283]

It gets very cold in Germany ;-(

[@johnp8131]

Connor, County does come from Count as you suspected. Remember three days ago you watched a video on "Ranks of Nobility explained" along with less well known ranks like Margrave? The word County in America would have come from England, probably around the seventeenth century?

[@wolsch3435]

When the lord of the castle uses the word "county" in conversation with the American (British?) journalist, he means the district (Landkreis) of Mayen-Koblenz, to which Eltz Castle and the municipality of Wierschem belong. A rural district comprises a number of small and medium-sized communities that can only cope with the tasks assigned to them by law if they work together. The Landkreis-county translation is a bit unfortunate. In Germany, even in the past, a count did not necessarily belong to a district.

[@johnp8131]

@@wolsch3435 Connor is making a comment conected to English counties and ranks from a video he watched couple of days ago, not really much to do with this? You can't really historically connect a Kreis in Germany with the Fudal or the modern English version. Especially as "Germany" was so disjointed prior to 1871.

[@wolsch3435]

@@johnp8131 Well, there were a great many counts and counties in medieval Germany. Almost 100 counts sat in the Reichstag of the HRE and were rulers of small areas. I just wanted to point out that the translation of "Landkreis" equals county is a bit unfortunate.

[@johnp8131]

@@wolsch3435 When I lived in Viersen the local council equivalent used to call it "The perfect circle" as a play on words. You're right though, there is no real equivalent as these are usually slightly smaller and differently administered compared to our counties?

[@micade2518]

Here's some more (on YT): "Castles of Germany and Austria - Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide" - Rick Steves' Europe

[@DerJarl1024]

"Count" is an English title for an earl of non-British descent. In German this would be the "Graf". His dominion would thus be the county, die "Grafschaft" in germany or, in Britain, the shire as earldom. Later, however, the county simply became a administrative district, which is now called "Kommune" or "Gemeinde" in Germany and the politics here were called "Kommunalpolitik", so local or municipal politic. Administrative districts today may sometimes resemble the old counties, but for the most part these have been merged through reforms and thus combined into larger municipalities, so-called "Landkreise". This was done primarily to reduce administrative costs and administrative burdens. Nevertheless, county is a comparably good translation, as it is similar to the counties existing in many countries of Anglo-Saxon origin today.

[@DerJarl1024]

Eltz Castle is also something special. The name Eltz was first mentioned in 1157 in a deed of donation from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. In it a "Rudolfus de Elze" is listed as a witness. Before 1268 the Lords of Eltz divided their tribes among the brothers Elias, Wilhelm and Theoderich. They divided the castle and associated estates among their three families: 1. the Eltz-Kempenich, called "Eltz from the golden lion", 2. the Eltz-Rübenach, called "Eltz vom Silberen Löwen" as well as 3. the Eltz-Rodendorf, called "Eltz of the buffalo horns" From then on, their families formed a so-called Ganerben community, so that the Eltz became a Ganerbenburg with several owners. All three lines built their own residential towers in the castle, which still bear their names today. According to old German inheritance law, a joint family estate was a joint family fortune, primarily real estate, which the joint heirs could only dispose of jointly. According to today's German legal terms, this corresponds to a "Gesamthandsgemeinschaft" or joint ownership. Joint inheritances arose from the simultaneous appointment of several co-heirs to one and the same estate object, as was the case in the Middle Ages, mainly for family policy reasons. The object of such legal relationships was usually a jointly built or conquered palace or castle. The latter was then referred to as Ganerbenburg. The peaceful coexistence of the heirs, the rules of daily coexistence and the rights of use and use of common building components were mostly regulated comprehensively by so-called truce agreements (true truces for short). Well, things weren't always peaceful between the three von Eltz families... 😉 The current von Eltz-Kempenich family only became sole owners of the castle in 1815 when Count Hugo Philipp von Eltz bought the Rübenacher house and the property of the Barons von Eltz-Rübenach.

[@janastratmann-severin1892]

German houses are mostly built of stone and (usually) very well insulated and have central heating (AirCondition is not common here and is therefore rather rarely installed), so they are cool in summer and warm in winter, but these old castles have zero insulation and no heating. There are usually fireplaces or stoves in the rooms. All the windows are single glazed and often the wind pulls through all the cracks in the masonry. They are difficult to get warm and thus tend to be damp and cold. The average temperature in the area is 1.8°C, and in summer the temperature rarely gets above 20°C. In every month it rains. Living in this area in this building? No thanks. I don't need heat in the house either, but 19°C would be nice.

[@blaumupi]

I also like to sleep in unheated bedrooms, but nowadays the rest of the rooms are heated and you don't freeze all day. In the Middle Ages, the living rooms were only moderately warm and you usually froze. People wanted to be warm at least at night.

[@Thisandthat8908]

There would be an insane amount of regulations for maintenance involved in living there.

[@georgecarlinismytribe]

Have you tried Colditz Castle? Interesting WWII history.

[@Skyl3t0n]

No, we don't say county. A count is only the equvalent to a german "Graf"

[@Kosty19]

The question should be: "Would You like to live there if You had to clean all rooms and windows Yourself and if You had to pay for all upkeep, restorations and maintenance from Your own pocket?"

[@georgecarlinismytribe]

9:42 German Stephen Fry.

[@joshcrawford4076]

Her accent is so weird, it's a cross between British, Aussie, American and Dutch.. sometimes comes out with that American valley girl kinda accent 😂 but yeah I would love to live there remotely ❤

[@johnp8131]

She's is just a very well spoken Scot.

[@joshcrawford4076]

@@johnp8131 She's Scottish!?!?

[@alicemilne1444]

Her accent is a very common one from Central Scotland. I recognised it straight away because I'm from around that region, though I don't speak quite like her. The reason you might think it is "British, Aussie, American and Dutch" is because the Scots language stayed much closer to its Continental cousins in terms of vowel sounds and consonants than English did. Also, Scots was heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic and there were also a lot of immigrants from the Low Countries in the Middle Ages. Aussi, American and Canadian accents have been influenced by the large numbers of Scots who emigrated there over the centuries.

[@joshcrawford4076]

@@alicemilne1444 Interesting! Thank you :)

[@johnp8131]

@@joshcrawford4076 Afraid so, can you not hear it? Must admit though because it's a bit posh, it also tends to be a lot softer than the majority of Scots dialects. And she's a "wee lassie". With the name of Crawford, I thought you may have spotted it?

[@bobabier5394]

3:24 no. just no...

[@Wintermaus]

As a German, my advice would be to grow up.

[@fabianstriebeck8054]

she has to ask about his life, too many people out there thinking his family are being served by staff and his daughter a princess and son a prince, with horses and helicopters and staff like richy rich. you have to ask, humans overthink too much. unfortunate. as i would agree with you, its not necessary.

[@serz1885]

2:10 no its F not, dont go through woods you will walk for miles and nothing nice during this walk only rats , take a buss or go along the road 12:01 bro wake up usa built by immigrants from europe. do you know that state Georgia IS a country in Kavkaz (Georgia) etc...

[@mariondiemert430]

The Burg Eltz is beautiful. It was spared in WWII, because it was the family seat of the British Prince. The husband of Queen Elizabeth. You walk through a forest and all of a sudden turn a corner and there it is.

[@duke6321]

This information is completely false and probably fictitious, because what does the house of Eltz have to do with the house of Battenberg or Mountbatten? Nothing. Apart from that, Prince Philip never lived there, as he served in the British Navy during the 2nd World War. Eltz Castle is located in the middle of the forest above the Moselle rjver and was never a target of the British bomber Comand or the USAAF, as it was simply not a strategic target. So why take a risk for the crews of the bombers if it is useless to reach a target? Neither critical infrastructure nor wartime goods were produced there, so why should it be attacked? Your contribution is completely meaningless and wrong.

[@alicemilne1444]

@@duke6321 Agree completely. The Battenbergs were a morganatic branch of the royal house of Hessen-Darmstadt. And Prince Philip's father's line was from the Danish royal house of Glücksburg, way up in the north. Neither of those have anything at all to do with the house of Eltz.

[@johnp8131]

@@duke6321 Perhaps it's a translation thing, giving her the benefit of the doubt?

[@duke6321]

​@@johnp8131This is a bold statement, because this false claim cannot come from any translation error. How is this supposed to come about? From English first into Russian, then into Mandarin, then Portuguese, Swahili and from there then into French and then via Polish into German? I think someone wanted to make themselve important. There are already far too many false allegations on the Internet, so it must be allowed to name lies as such and not be lenient.

[@johnp8131]

@@duke6321 Fair enough. I just wanted to let her down a little more gently, rather than say, "that's crap"?