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Sanssouci is currently up for peer review here. If anyone has any comments to make to improve it, I would be very grateful. Trebor27trebor 15:48, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I heard the Wartburg was used by the Stasi for many years, perhaps as a training headquarters. Can anyone confirm this?? ( RM21 01:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC))
"According to a humorous myth, the castle (Burg) got its name when its founder first laid eyes on the hill upon which the Wartburg now sits; enamored with the site, he is supposed to have exclaimed, "Warte, Berg--du sollst mir eine Burg werden!" ("Wait, mountain--thou shalt become a castle for me!"). The humor in the story hinges upon the fact that the German words for "castle" (Burg) and "mountain" (Berg) sound similar."
This is American fakelore, and by someone who can't tell myth from legend from anecdote. Can a German language telling be found? Burg and berg only sound similar in an American pronunciation. This isn't good enough for Wikipedia. -- Wetman 03:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
It is a legend, and legends are tradition, even part of heritage. However, if it is just a legend which is merely based on a German play on words then it is patronizing to call it "humorous", readers don't need to be told, they can figure that out for themselves. Yes, of course, Hilmar Schwartz doesn't mean it to be taken as gospel. No German would dream of naming it humorvoll, witzig, or even komisch, let alone as the modern "facetious", calling it witzelnd, spöttisch or even mokant. There really is no need to tell people it is humorous. Dieter Simon ( talk) 00:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
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Sanssouci is currently up for peer review here. If anyone has any comments to make to improve it, I would be very grateful. Trebor27trebor 15:48, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I heard the Wartburg was used by the Stasi for many years, perhaps as a training headquarters. Can anyone confirm this?? ( RM21 01:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC))
"According to a humorous myth, the castle (Burg) got its name when its founder first laid eyes on the hill upon which the Wartburg now sits; enamored with the site, he is supposed to have exclaimed, "Warte, Berg--du sollst mir eine Burg werden!" ("Wait, mountain--thou shalt become a castle for me!"). The humor in the story hinges upon the fact that the German words for "castle" (Burg) and "mountain" (Berg) sound similar."
This is American fakelore, and by someone who can't tell myth from legend from anecdote. Can a German language telling be found? Burg and berg only sound similar in an American pronunciation. This isn't good enough for Wikipedia. -- Wetman 03:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
It is a legend, and legends are tradition, even part of heritage. However, if it is just a legend which is merely based on a German play on words then it is patronizing to call it "humorous", readers don't need to be told, they can figure that out for themselves. Yes, of course, Hilmar Schwartz doesn't mean it to be taken as gospel. No German would dream of naming it humorvoll, witzig, or even komisch, let alone as the modern "facetious", calling it witzelnd, spöttisch or even mokant. There really is no need to tell people it is humorous. Dieter Simon ( talk) 00:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
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