02 July 2007

Part two: Burg Frankenstein

After taking a turn around Darmstadt (back in March), we found Burg Frankenstein (Frankenstein Castle) and walked around in it and took tons of photos.

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Mary Shelley is supposed to have visited there before writing Frankenstein, according to the castle’s website; her stepmother was the English translator for the Grimms, and through this connection she probably heard a story about the alchemist and doctor Johann Konrad Dippel von Frankenstein, who was reputed to have created a monster that escaped into the surrounding woods and abducted children and virgins. Or not, according to Wikipedia.

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There’s just a ruin there now, but at Halloween they set up a haunted house. They’ve been doing it since we lived in Darmstadt when I was a kid; we went one year, and I still remember some of it (I couldn’t have been older than 5, so it would have made a big impression on me).

Fling! A trebuchet. Or mangonel. I don’t know the difference.
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The tower. Nice view, eh?
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Full album on the right.

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