Anyone ever walked down the Fairy Tale Road in Germany?

[Sequoia]

The German Fairy-tale Road stretches 600 kms from Hanau (near Frankfurt) in the State of Hesse through the Werra district and north to Bremen in the State of Bremen. The Road was devised by a group of city officials and business people around the sites of well known fairy-tales such as Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Grimm Brothers - Wilhelm and Jakob went around the region and collected fairy-tales and stories that people told them. So the collection of Grimms Fairy-tales was begun and these have since been translated into 140 languages



At the Trendelburg Turm in the Marburg District - Rapunzel (English version) was asked to let down her hair.

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http://www.bayswaterps.vic.edu.au/lote/maerchen/maerchen.htm

I just love fairy tales like The Goose Girl, King Thrushbeard, and thought The Pied Piper of Hamlin was extra scary since I think he sold those children into slavery (big thing back then, even now), since the townspeople wouldn't pay up.

In western cultures, The Grimms Fairy Tales are the 2nd best selling book over all after The Bible. Anyway, just finished a good history on these tales (told by women to the brothers who wrote them down), "Clever Maids" by Valerie Paradiz. I received the Grimm fairy tale book for Christmas from my mom as a child (along with a little transistor radio!), and just loved it and read it from cover to cover. When I told her later how muc I appreciated it she was a bit surprised since I wasn't such a little kid (maybe 12 or so)but fairy tales never go out of style and in them I now see things I didn't as a child.

[China_cat]

1. No but I've been to De Efteling

in Holland that has a full size 'sprookjes' forest with movable fairy tales, pastel (live) doves and red and white mushrooms that play Bach.

[Sequoia]

2. Mushrooms that play Bach? Bet there were those "coffee" shops

around too! Fun!