D8 GERMANY Photographs: © iStockphoto (cover, pages 4, 6, 11); © Dreamstime (pages 1, 13, 16); © Peter Horree, Alamy Images (pages 2-3); © Bildarchiv Monheim GmbH/Alamy Images (page 5); © Alamy Images (page 7); © Kuttig-Travel/Alamy Images (pages 8-9); WORLD BOOK map Illustrations: John Sandford (pages 14, 15) © 2010, 1998 World Book, Inc. All rights reserved. World Book, Inc. 233 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60601 U.S.A. D8 cover Fairy Tale Castles Tale Fairy Fairy Tale Castles Tale Fairy Lexile reader measure 590L measure reader Lexile 1 LEGEND 1. Marksburg Castle 2. Sterrenberg and Liebenstein Castles 2 3. Mouse Castle 4. Katz Castle 5. Burg Stahleck Castle 3 6. Rheinstein Castle 7. Mice Tower 4 5 6 In one part of Germany, almost every hill has a castle. Can you believe it? 7 Or does this sound like a fairy tale? 2 15 A 16 1 there were many, many castles. many many, were there with this one? this with and queens who lived in castles. So So castles. in lived who queens and Do you know a fairy tale that could go go could that tale fairy a know you Do castle. In fact, there were many kings kings many were there fact, In castle. There are so many castles in Germany. Germany. in castles many so are There king and queen lived in a beautiful beautiful a in lived queen and king Pfalzgrafenstein Castle Pfalzgrafenstein Once upon a time, long, long ago, a a ago, long long, time, a upon Once Rheinstein Castle Rheinstein Castles of the Why were so many castles built so close together? Long ago, Germany was not one large nation. Instead, there were many different little states. Reichsburg Cochem Castle Each state had its own king, queen, princes, and princesses. Each state also had its own knights and lords. And all Let’s take a trip on the Rhine River and these people wanted their own castles. see some of these castles. 14 3 B 13 4 inside and tour this castle. this tour and inside go can You ox! an cook to enough Mice Tower Mice of armour. And it has a kitchen big big kitchen a has it And armour. of This castle has everything! It has suits suits has It everything! has castle This Marksburg Castle Marksburg Do you remember the story of Rapunzel? She was locked up in a tower like this. She would have lots of room here to let down her golden hair. This tower is on an island in the Rhine Inside of Bamberg Castle River. In Germany’s castles you can walk There’s a story that a very mean man down the same halls that knights walked was locked up in this tower. Some say down long ago. And you can dance in he was eaten by mice. Maybe that’s beautiful ballrooms, as Cinderella and why his castle is called the Mice Tower. the Prince might have done. 12 5 C 11 6 of Katzenelnbogen (Katz, for short). for (Katz, Katzenelnbogen of Count the by owned was castle “Cat” Burg Stahleck Castle Stahleck Burg the “Cat” and “Mouse” castles. The The castles. “Mouse” and “Cat” the find you’ll river, the up farther little A Katz Castle Katz This castle was once owned by the Count of Stahleck. He must have been very rich. Maybe he counted his gold in one of these towers. Mouse Castle Do you know the fairy tale called “Rumpelstiltskin”? Rumpelstiltskin could The count didn’t like his neighbour. The turn straw into gold. He worked many neighbour’s castle was much smaller, so nights making gold for the owner of a the count gave that castle the nickname castle. “Mouse” castle. 10 7 D 9 8 big wall between their two homes. two their between wall big story of the two brothers lives on. lives brothers two the of story They argued so much that they built a a built they that much so argued They Both castles are almost gone. But the the But gone. almost are castles Both Two brothers owned these two castles. castles. two these owned brothers Two Sterrenberg and Liebenstein Castles Liebenstein and Sterrenberg.