FÜSSEN EPISODE 1
The first episode takes me from Stockholm, Sweden down to the south of Germany and a little town called Füssen.
I walk around the city and get a panorama view over Füssen.
I walk to the High castle and I hike the mountains to a castle nearby - Hohenschwangau Castle. It was built in the late 19th century, but has a history that goes back in time to the 12th century.
INTINERARY
Füssen, Germany
Verona, Italy
Venice, Italy
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Plitvice lakes, Croatia
Pula, Croatia
Bled, Slovenia
FÜSSEN
Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu, situated 1 km from the Austrian border. The town is known for violin manufacturing and as the closest transportation hub for the Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles. As of 2018 the town has a population of 15,538.
History
Füssen was settled in Roman times, on the Via Claudia Augusta, a road that leads southwards to Italy and northwards to Augusta Vindelicum (today's Augsburg). The original name of Füssen was "Foetes", or "Foetibus" (inflected), which derives from Latin "Fauces", meaning "gorge", probably referring to the Lech gorge.
During the 19th century, composer Richard Wagner used to come to Füssen by railway when he visited King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Tower of the High Castle
Füssen later became the site of the "Hohes Schloss" (High Castle), the former summer residence of the prince-bishops of Augsburg. Below the Hohes Schloss is the Baroque complex of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, whose history goes back to the 9th century. Füssen has Saint Mang (Magnus of Füssen) as its patron saint. Magnus' original burial place was in the small chapel he built. His bones were transferred to the crypt of the church built in 850. Around the year 950 all his bones disappeared.
View point!
The town museum in Füssen offers a number of highlights, e.g. the Füssen Dance of Death by Jakob Hiebeler or the “Füssen Lute and Violin Makers” department.
The gentleman with a lace collar and sword gallantly lifts his hat to ask the girl to dance. But she is anything but pleased – the gentleman is a skeleton, after all... Under the motto “Say yes, say no, you have to dance!”, all the people have to follow Death in his round dance, without exception, from the Pope to a small child. The 20 panels of the “Füssen Dance of Death” of 1602 are the oldest preserved portrayal of this theme in Bavaria and one of the highlights of the Füssen Town Museum in the former Benedictine Monastery of St. Mang.
However, the long tradition of lute-making in Füssen proves that the people of Füssen have never lost their pleasure in dancing and music as a result of this. A separate department is dedicated to the valuable string instruments and their production, in which the significance of the town as the cradle of lute-making in Europe can be experienced.
And what would Füssen be without the fairytale king Ludwig II? The grail castle “Falkenstein” which remained a vision on his part is brought to life here in a computer animation. And the real, magnificent rooms of the baroque monastery complex, which has almost one thousand years of history into which you can immerse yourself in the recently opened “Treasure Chamber”department, will also amaze you.
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