European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 castles on Alt Muhl mingle new the liberation Hall above which was built by King Lud Bijj i to celebrate Victory in the Napoleonic wars and below a drawbridge View of Olling Down the Alt Muhl on a Lazy after the enthusiast will run across a string of castles ranging from a modern 1925 Model to ancient piles of for Good he can wander through liberation strutted by King Ludwig i of to celebrate the Victory Over we started from driving North on the munic Nurnberg Twenty Kilometres North of after crossing the Alt Muhl turned East to the Hamlet of doubling Back under the we followed the Alt Muhl to first while Castle Kopfenberg dates from the Days of the robber today version was completed in 1925 by a wealthy Berlin drug the Structure is literally impaled on a Stone with the rooms arranged around the giant Needle in circular Kopfenberg housed various army units after world War ii and More recently became a rest Camp for when reconstructed in the Franz Karl the medical insisted on a Complete the workmen slaved away Han build ing heavy counterbalances and other items Supply and demand being what it is in the draw Bridge business these Days and finally completed the impressive but one Little item was they forgot to hinge the inner Edge and to Cut the Bridge in the perhaps the Castle could Lay claim to the Only stationary drawbridge in there is Little of historic interest in the caretaker will be Happy to show visitors through Many of the rooms and turning Back to we followed the Small Road along the Alt Muhl to the residence of the Bishop of but now housing a forestry our next Stop was Ziedenburg on the Castle Frnnk below sits High on a Rock Cliff overlooking the Alt Muhl a Tran script of the Nib Clung Saga was found and one can drive 1here along the but we recommend taking an Inland As the Road is none too turning Southwest from Hirschberg to wards Neustadt on a Short drive brings you to Here another Road Over the Hills into thann and on to two castles flank the for which the town is or vice is in Good its is in As Ziedenburg is a refugee visits Are prohibited and there is nothing to see but a Rock pile at the but we liked the View of both from the Terrace of the hotel Jura across the and the Beer was Castle a few Kilometres Down the is Worth a but anything larger than a Fiat wont navigate the narrow Road up the its doubt Ful if a Small car would pull the so Stop at the Village and take the hike  up the Well marked Trail starting at the Gasthaus prune is constructed around the peace hardly an appropriate As the Tower is All that survived several As saults on the prune is in the proc Ess of being restored As a tourist spot at the end of the tour the guide pointed out a Large Parchment scroll which supposedly relates the history of after struggling through the old the guide cheerfully but dont pay any attention to the facts in they Are All a wan Dering historian came Here several years ago and Drew up this impressive paper after talking to some when Ever history didst agree with his romantic he changed the facts to make it sound the guide said that what were believed to be original transcripts of the Nibelung Saga were found now in the Munich the papers were the basis for Many of Richard Wagner most famous the authenticity of any of the written versions of the Nibelung epics is hotly disputed by prune can at least claim a continuing on toward the Alt Muhl flows into the paused briefly for a Road View of Castle it is except for a single Square at on the High ground at the juncture of the stands a massive circular building called  liberation the huge dome towers 150 feet above the circular and in Laid in the Check ered base is the i scrip germans should never forget the struggle for by which they were you can climb to the first Balcony up a steel spiral staircase 73 Steps to the Best View of the eighteen Angels of from italian 18 Gold which list the various Battles of the wars which ended in King Ludwig i ordered the Monument in and it was completed 21 years most of the Marble was carried by sea from Italy to up the Rhine through Tribu Taree to tiie a Smuhl and the