European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 pin teens is Livin Cobur Crown by Norbert Ehrenfreund staff correspond d in t photos by Kurt Meier nce upon a time a stars and stripes Pha was sent up to Coburg to take some pictures of that cites famous and the scenes near two the Edi Tor told be Back in the photographer up his and set and redid not re then another Day with still no sign and All wondered a that had he phoned the had something gone wrong nothing had he it was just that he possibly take All the wanted in two Coburg Castle in hovers the town like a Gray Theof the few castles in Ger Man which still has its own Princess Cus seemed reasonable easily by car and open every Day for conducted it is the place to begin your Castle tour around Prince Shouse at cobia re Castle Madonna Fie to in the Atrich Veste i Coburg Veste in middle1 Ages Ger Man meant a fortress or a if you Are anywhere near the you wont have any trouble finding the people of Coburg have nicknamed this Castle the for hundreds of years it was the mighty defense bastion for the Dukes of and in 1530 Martin Luther moved in to protect him self from the fanatic opponents of his new religious now it is a government with my the Small arms and Battle Armor of the Middle a painting collections of venetian and about old just two years ago the Era of Swash buckling robber Barons suddenly came Back to life in the old sofa org on a sunday morning in May 1948 thieves broke into the Art carried away several paintings and some valuable later the thieves were and the which included an original a Vici was the men told police that they were unable to sell the a Vinci because nobody would believe it was an after seeing the drive Down to the Ehrenburg Castle in the Center of town from 1547 to it was the City residence for the Dukes of if you a Man named Richard Nord a 77yearold guide who has been working Here for 40 will take you through the state rooms and just ask for him when you reach the Castle now to leave Coburg for a 50mile according to my Castle touring col Bernie this Section of North Bavaria teems with and i found that he was count lives at Zambach within an hour you can visit at least take the dirt Road out of Coburg towards Zambach and two Miles outside the City you will run across the first one at built close to the one mile after the Castle of Hohenstein is off to the then continue on to Zambach for a Castle in which the count of Ortenberg still stay on the Road leading towards Piaf and just before reaching that you will see a sign pointing to the historic ruins of the alte Stem the View from this spot makes this visit Worth pass through Pfaffendorf on the Road that turns South and three Miles outside the town the Castle Lichtenstein will loom on the Mountain Range to ther at Omile drive off the Highway will take you up to a few Miles further along the Highway to you can visit the Castle of perhaps the most interesting on the tour out of it is on the right Side of the just before entering the Village of the Baron of Dottenheim still lives but it is open to for the return to turn left or Northwest at Ebern on the Road leading through Merzbach and Rossacha when tour was Kurt our looked up again at the Coburg other castles Are lie but they Are All an anticlimax after that the ironwork Gates before Castle Zambach cast Lac work shadows on the Muddy River lets of the the inn of caste Coburg As seen through the arched and barbed wire stated Duke Ernst ii sits his mount in Ernst ii von burs and Gotha was a 19th Century brother of the husband of a enemy of Entrance to the outer Wall of the via a Moat Castle Ehrenburg was the residence of the Dukes of Coburg within f
