European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thest1 Page Vij toe takes its toll f Bavaria chateaus Lowell Blankfort staff correspondent by George Penn f i he Gray and withered Little Man standing in the Castle courtyard grate fully accepted the Cigar ret around us High Walls and steeped turrets Rose into the bavarian behind these Lay a Mountaintop View of the fran Frische Saale meandering through the Val Leys of Northern is not much to Tell you about the caretaker i can you what used to need to the Schloss Saal Bas been standing since 1244 ruins of what bad been Charle t is no Point in showing you i he said it is Only a Home crowds Are gone 115 years ago we had some of Ger i most rare old books most we had a cellar full told every sunday crowds would come up to look through i and Admire the 1945 russian prisoners who had i liberated near Here came storm Pobe Hill they set fire to our Cooks the paintings and smashed i of bottles of wine into the Moat was three feet High with a i finest the government put the old by the but there a a museum featuring weapons and uniforms of the and it converted from a 5th Century which the guide told us was the oldest round building in Ger services Are held every sunday in the an interesting Little place with carved figures of Angels on the ceiling and Bones and skeletons of Catholic martyrs in a the Man walled Castle which impressively on a Bill overlooking goes Back to around 675 and the it was a fortress until 1866 and a Kaseane until if youre still game after seeing Marien Berg and Staleck and picnicking at some can Stop off at Schloss Salz near Neustadt on your Way it is now inhabited by a woman who Calls herself Princess widow of Baron Karl Ludwig Freyherr von und Zug and her Baron Johann Berthold Freiherr the 8th Century Castle is closed to visitors but the Princess graciously opens the courtyard every afternoon for those who would like to View the a 256 foot dry hewed from and the Treadmill which used to operate it the inevitable Mountaintop Gasthaus supplies a 50pfennig Booklet which1 says that there is Only silence where the carolinian and Saxon emperors once and the Flowers no longer and that modern plumbing is now used instead of the Treadmill the Gasthaus serves bavarian Beer and the Man walled Marienberg fortress viands on it Hill overlooking the fortress converted from m 5th Century Tower and purported to be the oldest round building in at the chapels Schloss near the rolling terrain of Northern Bavaria not Many people come to fat Morv Are and Iii an outdoor Gasthaus for mistook Long the the caretaker is Oft to Tell you that the Castle was Btu by the Bishop of and to give of the Battles fought and Stiffl show you a Tower legend in a Princess once locked her Dis lovers until they starved to Floe used to be stored in the bar now it is filled with cases of coca Coil for the the Story of Staleck is fairly typical of fix castles encountered North of Wurz none Are what they used to Stooss Tver neck is a Hospital and Zschach Are private Resi Dences Salzburg is partially ruined and Meienberg mainly a Refuge for the to Bare a few places that an of some interest if you Are a Castle fan and have a spare sunday ruins in the a r 1 b u r Koo Fisberg and Are Good picnic at the foot of right out of bad is also a Fine re turan t at own risk stating at Marienberg in Yon can Stop off at Staleck on the Way to of the ruins by going first to Karl then following signs to Hammel signs there Point to the Nar Row Road to the accurately labelled up at your own Marienberg provides the Only inside irtes on the Wycie much of the Wurzburg Castle is occupied Schloss near h private the death Tower at Schloss at Treadmill Well at