About a 30-minute drive NE of Frankfurt....lies the town of Büdingen.
It came up in the regional news today that folks have gotten hyped-up there, and have a plan to build a 11th century-like castle.
Modern equipment to be used? NO. They say the technique will be of the 11th century....all work by hand.
How many years in this project? They say they can accomplish this in eleven years.
They also say....it won't be cheap. They are already talk about 13-million Euro in cost.
Government project? No. What they suggest is that by crowd-funding and private donations.....it'll get done.
My view? Well....here's the thing....over the past thirty years, there's been dozens of German construction projects which were fu**ed-up. From the Hamburg opera hall....to the Stuttgart subway project. My confidence level isn't that high.
My gut feeling is that five or six years into this....the local building-inspection folks will demand access, and order them to tear down half the structure because it doesn't meet code, or some crappy work was done on one single wall.
The fact that few, if any, castle-builders exist today? That's another issue. There's just not that many guys walking around with castle-building on their resume.
If it does get done? I would imagine that this will turn into a major deal.....with tourism blasting off in Büdingen. Then some national trend will start up where forty different cities want their own castles to be built, and then you have some national castle trend underway.
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If it was government funded, it would cost 13 billion.
And take 26 years.
Absolutely correct. But they'd decide to dig 2 meters down to set the 'base', and run into four WW II bombs to delay things....then find some former Celtic empire site (delaying things for 3 years)....then find a rodent who is on the endangered species list. The final straw would be a site that prone to flooding, and gets one of those once in 700 years floods to collapse the construction site.
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