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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Having been in the Burg Hohenzollern region this week, I wanted to know what one of the chief dynasties of Europe is up to these days.

Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern, is the heir to the deposed Romanian throne, and... saxophonist and vocalist for the band, 'Royal Groovin''...
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, spends his time managing his own brewery, 'Preussens', and repeatedly suing various state governments and the federal government, for the return of all the possessions the last Kaiser, Wilhelm II, had to give upon abdication.
Gotta say, I'm Team Prince Hohenzollern, all the way. Georg Friedrich's a bit of a douche.
The House of Hohenzollern, coming to a cocktail bar near you.
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, wanted €44,00 for a friend and I to visit Burg Hohenzollern, and that makes him extra douchey.

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13 Oct
Here's a wild local Halloween story that I've alluded to before, but never articulated in full.

In October 1600, Jakob von Validlingen had ended work after hearing cases in Geradstetten, as the local judge or 'Obervogt' of the area.

As it happened, he ran into a friend... /1
Konrad von Degenfeld was the local lord, and had been to a wedding. Both Jakob and Konrad were, not to put too fine a point on it, fond of a drink, and so retired to a local house to neck a few frothy ales and dance a jig. /2
The night progressed, many tankards of ale and fine local wine were drunk and both nded the night quite plastered.

Not plastered enough, however, that Jakob forgot his bedtime routine - leaving his weapon somewhere far away from his bed, and taking a room by himself. /3
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7 Sep
There's a special kind of ignorance that comes with anti-vaxxers or anti-lockdown types, a real misunderstanding of the world around them that leads them to frame everything as evidence of creeping totalitarianism.

Quarantine facilities have been in Oz since colonization.
Prior to 1832, vessels arriving in Sydney reporting disease would be quarantined off North Head, until a purpose built station was created in 1832. ImageImage
For over one hundred years, migrant ships docked at the Sydney quarantine station and offloaded those with infectious diseases. They were confined there until they recovered, then released. Image
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26 Aug
So, in my amateur explorations into the 'Dark Age' Alamanni peoples of Southern Germany, I think I've found the first metalhead in history.

No, wait, hear me out...
In 2001, during building of an underground carpark in Trossingen, on the south-eastern edge of the Black Forest, a grave was found. It dated from the sixth century and contained the body of a man, and associated grave goods. Image
Contained in the 'death bed' along with the body of the man, was a lyre and a wooden flask. Image
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25 Aug
Today, I want to talk about a place I can never go to.

Today, it's under a bypass that runs between Aalen and Nordlingen, here in Southern Germany.

It still bears the name given to it by those who first settled there - Lauchheim.

That's how it appeared 1500 years ago.
The people who came to live there were the Alamanni - a group of tribes who broke through the Limes (the Roman border wall spanning modern Germany) from the north and settled modern-day Southern Germany, the Alsace and northern Switzerland.
Some of these tribespeople, who arrived in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, settled near modern-day Lauchheim, at a place called Mittelhofen.

There, they built a village with farms, a mill, a smith, etc - like that pictured below (a modern reconstruction, elsewhere).
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16 Aug
I could keep this thread going for hours, but here are a few of my favourites.

1. I love the "Zank you for twavelling on Deutschuh Bun" announcements on the train when arriving at your destination.
2. I love that drinking a beer on the way to a party, or on the train is completely acceptable.

I also love that pulling into a beer garden at 11am for a radler is completely acceptable on a summer's day.
3. I love that you go to the bakery separate from your shop, which you do two or three times a week since your fridge is tiny.

The bread is cheap, and there are always belegte (filled) brötchen (rolls) if you're feeling lazy.
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7 Aug
If there's one thing I know about, it's witch hunts. Witch hunts in Early Modern Europe were almost always predicated on a) fanciful explanations for natural phenomena and b) the settling of long-held grudges - both the realm of today's anti-vaxxers and Covidiots.
The sizable witch hunts at Trier, Fulda, Bamberg and Würzburg, in what is today Germany, took place during a century defined by not only internecine warfare and all that entails, but a significant drop in temperatures, caused by what's known as the 'Little Ice Age'.
Early Modern German society, that was dependant on agriculture at a near subsistence level, would suffer heavily from any drop in temperatures.

Sudden changes in the weather, therefore, were viewed with terror and awe.
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