I know this board is for Munich, but I need to post on a board that gets more traffic.
I am trying to get ahold of somebody at the castle at burgkatzenstein. This is their website:
http://www.burgkatzenstein.de/
I want to book a room for July. I have e-mailed them. I have tried to fax them multiple times, but their fax machine is never turned on. I have had a German-speaking friend e-mail them on my behalf. Still nothing. I guess the next step is to try to call, but I am worried they don%26#39;t speak English or of getting into a long, frustrating, expensive phone call of trying to undertand each other.
Is there anyone that lives close to there, or who can call them locally and ask them to turn their fax machine on! Or ask them to maybe check their e-mail?
I really hoped to stay there, but I%26#39;m not very encouraged if this is how they conduct their business.
|||
My German wife just called them and told them about your problem. They check their e-mail once a day and also their FAX is functional, and she verified that the e-mail address and the FAX number are valid.
E-mail: info@burgkatzenstein.de
Tel: 07326-919656
FAX: 07326-963524
For phoning, I believe that you have to omit the leading 0 if dialing from a foreign country, if that doesn%26#39;t work, than try it with it. You must dial your international access number (may be 011), then the country code 49 then the number. So I believe 011-49-7326-963524 should be the FAX number.
I hope that you have better success.
The castle always fascinated me. My wife%26#39;s sister lives a few kilometers away and we frequently would drive by it, and before they restored and repainted it, it truely looked ancient. Two years ago they had finished their restoration and opened it to the public. The castle%26#39;s chapel has very old paintings that span three different centuries, and the keep (tower) is the first of that design in Germany. The legend about the keep dates it from 777.
|||
Thank you. That is the same e-mail address I have used, and the fax number I dialed is
011 + 49 + 73 26 96 35 24
I will try again.
|||
Well, they say %26quot;third time%26#39;s a charm.%26quot; I e-mailed yesterday and they responded. Thanks for your help!
|||
Please report back after your stay -- the website looks great, and I try to spend a night in a castle when travelling in Germany (when time and budget allow!)
|||
...and you got through just in time---their website states -- %26quot;im Monat Februar Betriebsurlaub%26quot;--basically, %26quot;in the month of February, business on holiday%26quot;. However, it also states they re-open March 1.
|||
linnmac,
I believe that you don%26#39;t drive. There is very poor public transportation on the East Alb, and a car is a necessity.
Just north of Katzenstein is an old Roman Road, which unfortunately now is blacktopped. However, it%26#39;s interesting how the Romans built their roads, so straight through this hilly area, and probably back then there was also very little along it as there is today.
|||
Marco- Thanks for that interesting update. (yes, when traveling alone, I depend on that great train system or kindness of German friends and family with cars. They live in the Eifel %26amp; Bayern, so Schwaben is %26quot;foreign%26quot;, maybe? :-)
I have ridden on horseback on remnants of old Roman roads in Germany and camped near one of their old encampments--the layers of history there always fascinates me.
|||
%26quot;the layers of history there always fascinates me.%26quot;
Yes, there%26#39;s plenty of excellent real ancient history in and around Stuttgart. 250,000 year old Steinheim Man was found in a gravel pit just to the north of Stuttgart (the skull is at Museum am Loewentor in Stuttgart), and there is a Prehistoric Man Museum in Steinheim an der Murr, which is by the excellent vineyards in Grossbottwar. The Vogelherd Cave on the east Schwaebische Alb, not too far from Burg Katzenstein, is the site of man%26#39;s earliest art dating from 36,000 years ago, mainly very small carved pendants from mammoth tusks, and the world%26#39;s earliest musical instrument, a 8cm long swan%26#39;s bone flute, some of which is displayed in The Württemberg Museum in the Old Palace in Stuttgart. Then there is the Celtic burial mounds, such as that of a prince at Hochdorf an der Enz with also a Celtic Museum which is just west of Stuttgart, and many of its treasures are also displayed in the Württemberg Museum, as are other well preserved Bronze and Iron Age objects. (My son who had just visited London museums said the Stuttgart objects were much better preserved than the London ones.) Then of course the Roman sites and artifacts before we get to medieval times.
|||
I just noticed that there is a special exhibition on Ice Age Art and Culture in the Kunstgebaeude in Stuttgart (the building with the golden stag on its roof on the Schlossplatz) from 18Sept2009 to 10Jan2010.
www.eiszeit-2009.de
|||
So many interesting things to see, so little time :-(
No comments:
Post a Comment