Shoot an arrow in Germany, and more often than not, you’ll hit a castle. It may sound preposterous given the country’s reputation for method and organization, but we still don’t know how many castles ...

WAVERLY, Iowa --- Lester Zelle can vividly remember seeing the Wartburg castle, the namesake of Wartburg College, while marching into a town near Eisenach, Germany, in 1945. At 21 years old, Zelle was ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Courier correspondent Jody Ferres is also a student at Wartburg College. She is part of the group studying in Germany during May term. While there, Ferres intends to file reports about ...

It did serve as the blueprint. Neuschwanstein was built by King Ludwig II, the “Mad King” of Bavaria in 1880, “in the authentic style of the old German knights’ castles,” as he himself described. King ...