European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Uts Only cobra is kept in d i e from the views of mountains and the Check ered make the hike Many years the Castle was owned or Archduke Stephan of Hungary son 4 Perot Franz Joseph of Austria who Jacuch of the Stephan a to stuff two of which guard Fly trance to his old Entrance is guarded by two Bronze by Kiel they were in the Paris exposition of 1900 St Welsbach Castle tee monks Home by Lisbeth Back 1 staff photographer itt Elsbach in the Middle of Berchtey is a visitors to the Berchtesgaden recreation area have swarmed through its treasured Halls by the yet countless others have not known of its pictures by Lisbeth Back at it h1cog resident offices for the Nare housed in a part of the mid it and perhaps that is one Why Many have missed the seeing gelding of Witt Elsbach started in the i Century and it was first used As a Towery by the monks of Augustin pfc pc it was the seat of the Prince Ana the Witt Elsbach family be its and its name has re with it they were the Royal of of Welsbach descendants own the i reflects seven distinct styles an English speaking guide Point them Shell show you fun go what picture postcard writers 4the Berchtesgaden which j Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria into a with the world was Art collection of the Witt Elsbach together with discreet Ter i pamphleteer describes it otherwise with the adjoining Abbey is in every sense the heart of they Are impressive in a style that summarize their for More than six in Stone that testify to a living Faith and an established tem Jujj framed As they Are by everlasting they form a to human dignity that must even the most casual inlaid with Hun has captured the imag of american requiring to the Cabinet so pleased that the life sentence of soviet maker wag is open to visitors sex Prince opens door on tour near Fulda by Lowell Blankfort staff correspondent Royalty May be opening doors for you when you go Aca Steling West and South of no castles on this trip Are open to the Public but you May be admitted to two private As we the first Schloss Only 15 min utes from is con trolled by Prince Philip of we were shown through by his 20yearold English speaking Prince Henry whose ancestors once ruled All of explained that the Castle is be ing renovated for opening As a museum in 1951 when the general Welcome sign go Castle Stolzenburg is Aow in sightseers will be delighted with the paintings on the they also can see a split Marble top table shattered by the fist of according to Napoleon stood at the window by which the table on seeing his troops slammed his hand Down on the Marble in a fit of the caste was built Between 1740 and 1760 and stands in a level it is surrounded by a High Wall to get you head South from turn left at then left again at a Road with a sign pointing to the Ycu can go from Adolf Seck to our Sec Ond following the Eich Enzell Road to then going left and following routes 284 and Schloss in the town of now houses East zone the Barones Magdalena von Der Tann showed us through the one Corner still left As a Royal the a White haired and Gra Cious widow of so with considerable vital fold us the Castie was built around 1665 and captured by Frederick the that her family once ruled Saxony and a relative had been minister of state in the Weimar she led us up the stairs through rooms filled with family sculptures and heavy furniture and showed us such Memorabilia As a deathbed picture of a Bishop of a big gun a tremendous 1870 an 1880 Hobby and a letter from Frederick the great thiere Are three other castles in the Fulda area but they Are not open to the Schloss Fuma itself is an build to is a private residence and a there Are also plenty of ruins for picturesque Auersperg off route 278 near Tann and at theres a Gasthaus and a Mountain of bricks from the crumpled 13th Century in the Middle of the Castle of is open daily to the photo above shows the Bunting trophies in the deacons the facade below was decorated in Rococo in 1725 but there Are seven other styles the medieval German artist Lucas cranach painted the picture above which hangs in the Alpine View from