Tourism in Bavaria, Germany

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卡尔德尔, 记者来鸿：德国--世界那么大不想去看看. BBC Chinese, Apr 22, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp ... lost_its_wanderlust

, which is translated from

Simon Calder, Has Germany Lost Its Wanderlust?  BBC, Apr 17, 2016.
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36047816

Note:
(1) "Besides the predictable tangle of Autobahnen and Bundestrassen, a few intriguing threads stand out from the rest. * * * The oldest claims to be the Schwarzwald Hochstrasse - the Black Forest High Road - meandering through arboreal loveliness just east of the Rhine."
(a)
(i) Paul Eisenberg (ed), Fodor's Europe. 59th ed, 2004, at page 351
https://books.google.com/books?i ... %20free&f=false
("The autobahn system in Germany is of the highest standard. * * * All Autobahns are toll-free. Local roads are called Bundesstrassen")
(ii) Bundesstraße (Bundesstraßen, like autobahns, are maintained by the federal agency of the Transport Ministry)  en.wikipedia.org

For "Bundes- " (English: federal), see Bund in (2).

(b)
(i) Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald; is bounded by the Rhine valley to the west and south; highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres (4,898 ft) )  wn.wikipedia.org
(ii) How did the Black Forest in Germany get its name?

Ashley Lutz, Tour Germany's Enchanted Black Forest Where Fairy Tales Are Set.
http://www.businessinsider.com/germanys-black-forest-2012-5
("Germany's Black Forest got its name from the conifers that block out most light below, giving the region a mysterious aura")
(c) Schwarzwaldhochstraße (English: Black Forest High Road; [Though oldest road in Germany] The name Schwarzwaldhochstraße was first used in 1930 after the completion of the section of road between Hundseck and Untersmatt made access to the high Black Forest easier)

With elevation of 600-1,000 meters, Schwarzwaldhochstraße starts from City of Baden-Baden southward to Freudenstadt. See Panoramic Map. Schwarzwaldhochstraße, undated
www.schwarzwaldhochstrasse.de/109-1-Panoramic-map.html
(Click the map to enlarge it, where Hundseck and Untersmatt are, respectively, 4 and 5 within blue circles)

(2) German English dictionary:
* Bund (noun masculine; genitive Bundes): "alliance"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bund
* Wald (noun masculine)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wald
* hoch: "(adv) up; (adj) high"
* Straße (noun feminine; from Latin noun feminine strata a paved road; plural Straßen)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Straße
* Freude (noun feminine; plural: Freuden): "joy, happiness"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Freude
* Hose (noun feminine; plural: Hosen): trousers"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hose
   ("Hose" alone means a pair of trousers/pants <die ideale Hose für Golfer  the ideal pair of pants for golfers>)
* Schwan (noun masculine): "swan"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schwan

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(3) "But the aristocrats of touring roads are the Deutsche Alpin Strasse - the German Alpine Road - and the Romantische Strasse, the Romantic Road. Both run for hundreds of miles through fine countryside on journeys punctuated with historic towns. The two routes meet just once, at a town within walking distance of the Austrian border: Fuessen. So, from the western terminus of the Alpine Road in Lindau on Lake Constance, I set the controls for the heart of German tourism."
(a) Lindau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindau
(an island on the eastern side of Lake Constance; located near the borders of [two German states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg] Austria and Switzerland)
(b) Lake Constance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Constance
(section 3 Name)

Sources of the Rhine River is further upstream.
(c) German Alpine Road. Google, undated
https://www.google.com/maps/d/vi ... UYLNjP4MOBTElHdwlrE
(from Lindau eastward to Berchtesgaden)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berchtesgaden
(near the border with Austria; section 2 Etymology)
(d) Romantic Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_Road
(the 350 kilometres (220 mi) of highway between Würzburg and Füssen)
(e) Füssen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Füssen
(has a population of 14,631; is known for its violinmaking industry)

(4) "The road [German Alpine Road] rises quickly away from the placid inland sea, swerving through a succession of landscapes showing middle Europe at her lyrical best - broad meadows speckled with flowers, muscular hillsides carved by streams of melting Alpine snow, and a sense of order and contentment bestowed by stout and well-turned-out farmhouses."

well-turned-out (adj): "very well dressed, usually in expensive clothing"
www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/british/well-turned-out

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(5) "The drive to Fuessen takes two glorious hours * * * Townhouses * * * decorate a lattice of cobbled lanes beneath steeply-raked roofs. In a cavern-like tavern where dirndls and lederhosen are compulsory (for the staff at least), each guest gets a bib, a tankard of beer and a plate of pork knuckle * * * But the town's main draw is its role is as base camp for the campest castle in Christendom: Neuschwanstein.  The hilltop citadel, built for Ludwig II of Bavaria, is the most recognisable castle in Europe. You'll probably have seen its playful twirls of towers and turrets decorating a postcard, a tourist brochure or a guidebook cover. And if you haven't? Well, one word sums it up: Disneyesque. Walt himself chose Neuschwanstein as the model for the Sleeping Beauty's castle"
(a) "steeply-raked roofs"
(i) raked (adj): "sloping <a ​steeply raked ​stage, ​sloping down towards the ​audience> <raked ​wings>  <a raked ​mast>"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/raked
(ii) rake (n; origin unknown): "inclination"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rake
(b)
(i) dirndl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl

Remember: This is English Spelling. Germans ALWAYS capitalize the first letter of German nouns.
(ii) dirndl (n; German dialect Dirndl girl): "a dress style with tight bodice, short sleeves, low neck, and gathered skirt"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirndl
(c)
(i) lederhosen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lederhosen
(ii) For the definition of "hosen," see (2).
(d) tankard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankard
(e) The "campest" is the superlative of

camp
(n): "something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing
(adj): "of, relating to, being, or displaying camp
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/camp
(f)
(i) Neuschwanstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle
(English: New Swanstone Castle; Ludwig [II] paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds)

Quote: “Ludwig called the new palace New Hohenschwangau Castle; only after his death was it renamed Neuschwanstein. The confusing result is that Hohenschwangau and Schwanstein have effectively swapped names: Hohenschwangau Castle replaced the ruins of Schwanstein Castle, and Neuschwanstein Castle replaced the ruins of the two Hohenschwangau Castles.
(ii) For the definition of Schwan," see (2).
(iii) History of the Origins of Neuschwanstein Castle. Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen (English: Bavarian Department of State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes), undated
www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/idea/
("Hohenschwangau was decorated with scenes from medieval legends and poetry, including the legend of the swan knight Lohengrin. Ludwig [II] identified himself when still a boy with Lohengrin, to whom Richard Wagner dedicated a romantic opera in 1850. The swan was also the heraldic animal of the Counts of Schwangau, whose successor the king [Ludwig, which is Herman variant of Louis] considered himself to be. Maximilian II [who was Ludwig II's father] had already made the swan a leitmotif of Hohenschwangau. Idealization of the Middle Ages was thus combined with concrete local tradition")

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(6) "But if the nation that has always been at the forefront of tourism has passed the point of 'peak Wanderlust,' other countries will suffer."

The "peak Wanderlust" is a wordplay on "peak oil" -- until fracking came along, many experts predicted oil production anywhere in the world would decrease inexorably and be used up a few decades into the twenty first century.

(7) " they [Germans] plan to spend more time at home with their Schlosses"
(a) German English dictionary
* Schloss (noun neuter; plural: plural Schlösser (the singular form has "o" rather than "ö") ): "castle (château, palace, not fortified)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schloss
(b) Schloss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss

Quote: "Most Schlösser were built after the Middle Ages as residences for the nobility and not as true fortresses, although they were often originally fortified; the usual German term for a true castle is Burg and for a fortress is Festung; however, many castles were called 'Schloss,' especially those that were used as residences after they lost their defensive significance and many were adapted to new tastes during the Renaissance and Baroque period.