Confessions of a Castleholic

This Castleholic never ceases to learn... While I have written a post with no less than 13 pro castle hunting tips , I learned another one the other week: If possible do not visit a castle that is also a registrar's office for civil weddings on a Saturday morning when it actually serves as a place to tie the knot. Because when I visited Schloss Neuhaus in Paderborn, that is exactly what happened to me and I saw no less than five or six bridal couples. So it's a bit of a wonder I managed to actually sneak a few pictures without not one but several bridal couple in them. It also meant that I could not actually visit all of the rooms usually open to the public. While today a school, a museum and, obviously, a  registrar's office, Schloss Neuhaus was once the residence of the Prince-Bishops of Paderborn with its history going back all the way to the year  1257 when the first fortified house was erected there just outside of the city of Paderborn. It was Bishop Heinri...