My first thought as well! I built a sizable stone circle in the mountains. The man who helped laughed and said what will they think in a thousand years.

I recommend that they put a rubber duck in a display case in the basement or paint some big ducks on the walls so people 12000 years from now thinks they build those buildings to protect themselves from giant yellow ducks roaming around.

Nah, they’ll pretend like they know it all - like they do now

😆 you said that on the Peter and Ruth one too

@@yeboscrebo4451 this is an amusement park in Europe, don't make fun of them, they don't know what fun *is*

The castles needed those villages because that's where the tax money to support the castles came from.

Taverns didn't really just pop up in some village, even if there was a castle next to it. Taverns were more places in cities to sell wine and also where travelers would receive lodging. They were not really like the taverns in DnD.

@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei oh you’re absolutely right, and I don’t have the expertise in history to know what form they’d take but I do know this, if enough people hang around one spot for long enough eventually someone comes to sell them alcohol

And then William the Conqueror or somebody like that arrives from the land across the river or the ocean and burns it all down and absconds with all their millstones and chisels, and they have to start all over.

@@dougerrohmer Nah, he's the reason why England even has those castles. His pacification plan for the country was to build itty bitty castles on hills that the Anglo-Saxons were absolutely amazed by because they never thought of doing it themselves.

exactly what I thought. I wouldnt mind working there

Beating the English? Of course it's a full feeling job!

@@messire9837 man my people are busy beating the Scottish

There’s nothing like handwork and craftsmanship to fulfil us. We make efforts of the body and mind, and see the physical incarnation of our work and sweat. Instant dopamine shot.

​@@jeffington1224 Y'all are lucky to not be fighting the Mongols.

I also work in construction. It is mindblowing that they were able to build things on this scale without the technology we rely on today but equally we are able to build things today they would have refused to believe was real.

@@thomasedwards205 indeed....you make a relevant point... thanks for the comment

People very often mix up technology with intelligence as well as convenience. People weren't dumb and stupid back in the day, they just didn't have the technology and luxury we have today. They just took maybe a little longer, and it was more physical work. Which isn't bad maybe, since you already had your daily dose of exercise.

The skills are dying because unlike back in the day, you cant just have people learn artisanal skills that require a lifetime of toil and work and then proceed to basically pay them subsistence pay. Leaves me conflicted about this kind of stuff because on the one hand, the skills are dying, but on the other hand I think the environs that enabled the skills to be proliferated so much were not neccesarily something to yearn for.

@@dulljumbo4321 I can't disagree, commercial time frames, poor training and substandard composite materials all lead to a degredation of standards...there are, thankfully artisans still out there, however they do it for love, not for the money. I appreciate your comments.

it's also a way of life. I'd totally go there and do stuff to get away from working on a desk and just spend a summer baking bread or making cart wheels. I can't think of anything more therapeutic.

@@unlink1649 Imagine being one of the workers who finished Notre Dame

the title of this video made me go: "I wish I had friends like that"

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What's the experiment here? Just seeing if they can do it?

Here is something funny to think about, there are thousands of unfinished buildings that investors spend hundreads of millions on, then they go bankrupt and you got a 200 mil building unfinished and unusable just sitting there. Im sure similar happend back then. Family died of or left...

Well, if it's such a success, then when it's finished, they can always start building another castle. Now, that they have experience, they can make some things better or just differently. Or simply recreate a castle of another age or another country

@@mishatsaritsyn4843 problem with that is that it's no longer the FIRST medieval castle being built in modern times. Only the first of something this unique usually gets the fame, unfortunately

I am not sure that the comparison with the Sagrada Familia is legitimate. It is built with modern means and methods, on a completely different scale. And I don't know if it's still the case, but the times I visited it you couldn't see what the workers were doing, there were only cranes and scaffolding, all out of reach and visibility. At Guedelon, you can see the craftsmen at work, from the extraction of resources to the final installation.

@@mishatsaritsyn4843 There are rumours that they were planning to build the village after the castle, but nothing is certain, the castle still needs about ten years.

It is mainly caused by the fact that every building then needed craftsmen, not just construction workers, and it was every craftsman's pride to make something pretty. There were also craft guilds and they required skilled workers and there was competition within those guilds to be the best. Not to mention that if something takes you so long time to create, you obviously want it to be outstanding.

It's not that they're more aesthetically pleasing. They're just different. If you took some of the decent to nice to beautiful skyscrapers and only had a few of those in the world but then created thousands and thousands of castles everyone would go on about how beautiful skyscrapers are and castles are not. Rarity does not equate beauty. (My point here is both are beautiful and things to marvel over)

@@johnw6060 Really? Nothing 'modern' is aesthetically pleasing, at all. It's concrete, glass and rebar. As for 'modern' houses they all look like a german bunker from WWII, meets doll house with glass and wooden trim. It's all soulless and hideous and a _direct_ reflection of how spiritually dead people have become. We build beautiful and breathtaking buildings all the way up to the outbreak of WWII, after the war it went downhill and very fast.

you can't really compare a medieval castle to a modern skyscraper though. You could compare it to 1920's skyscrapers and you'd probably come to the same conclusion.

they took the detail away so its easier to buid! the rulers need to house the people

It’s awesome. If I won the power ball here in America, I would buy out a French chateau or do my absolute best to buy and renovate a castle somewhere in Europe. If not I’d build a modern castle. Something so satisfying knowing you’re the lord of that castle lol.

@Haz wizZRblx yeah

theres a big park in the Netherlands where they've got areas in theme for pretty much every major period in history which is pretty cool, buildings in that style, activities matching it (for example they got a half circle theatre for roman times, you can do archery and sword lessons for medieval times etc)

There’s plenty of people that do that

@@harroldthered7050 I would build a "replica" of the castle from the 1971 Macbeth movie.

Nice, i bet you're ad awesome as the castle

@@LevantWasTaken thanks !

have you considered helping, to speed up the process?

@@nathanielpillar8012 i've been considering it recently yes :)

@@Nak1312 on the day it's finished, you will die ;-)

When they finish it they'll have to put it under siege so they can rebuild parts of it again lol

@@KraziEyevin Can you imagine the research into historical warfare! Siege engines, cannons, ladders, fortifications, defending breaches, improvisational weaponry...

They're planning on building a Medieval village next to it once it's done. I'd like to imagine that their ambition will never run out, and they'll eventually expand into a whole walled Medieval city with a full scale cathedral on the side, just to keep the project going forever.

@@Lightice1 That would've been so cool! We can always dream! :D

In an interview one of the project managers said that once they were finished they can probably build a Renaissance chateau from the medieval castle.

Apparently they're giving it a modern look thats so cancer

​@@thatundeadlegacy2985is this news recent, and if it is is there proof?

@@thatundeadlegacy2985 According to the latest news reports, the Notre Dame is being restored exactly to its previous form.

Somehow I too have seen that video in that past. The other night I thought about that video.. then UKposts read my brain and brought me here >.>

@@daniilivanov9601 or you maybe mentioned it once, it's kinda scary how much your phone listens. Had a conversation about water quality, the same day some articles got recommend to me even though I haven't searched for this topic ever before. Coincidence, I don't think so.

Right, everyone gets that all the time, but, this time around they read my mind

I remember that as well 😁 glad it's doing well!

I wish they'd do an update on it.

REAL Freemasons not the technocrat Freemason on their Land Rover with Freemason stickers. 😂

Looks like a death trap

@@freedomfreedom6544 What looks like a death trap ?

I could imagine the Accident Rate on those 13th century sites would have been high.

@@SternLX Maybe not as high as we imagine: skilled workers were very hard to find back then so I guess it was in the interest of everyone to keep them safe. Productivity was certainly not as much as central as it has become since Industrial Revolution, and quality of work was more important than speed of achievement. Since, in my experience, shorter and shorter deadlines are the key to get spectacular errors and accidents, maybe a less time pressured environment was quite safe after all. We must also keep in mind that these people were free workers, not 'slaves', so they would have probably a high interest, and a say, in their own safety...

How can you recognise them?

@@damionkeeling3103 they are purple.

That is so cool! How did you manage get a job there? It sounds amazingly interesting! I'd love to learn one of the many skills those people have

@@damionkeeling3103 I helped to put them in the place they are in and remember the spot, also due to the varying iron content the color is always slightly diffrent from the next stone.

@@FruitingPlanet Thanks, must be fun helping to make something that will last for centuries.

something you can walk up to and NOT ...ASK WHY

This is way better than a theme park, because it's all real instead of plastic.

it's a living museum, not a theme park, lol, Williamsburg Virginia has a living museum, not on this scale not in the slightest, but similar idea

Puy de Fou is a famous French theme park you might enjoy. I love the authenticity and attitude that has gone into the building of this castle. It's important these skills aren't lost.

minus the groomers and pedos like disneyworld

@@banzy3 It's not a 100% accurate obviously because it would be boring for a theme park but it's still very good. Some historians love to shit on the park but they don't understand what's its real purpose.

It is already a touristic location 😃 Been there at the end of the year with my ex gf ahah

Even when the castle will be finished, plans are already being drawn to establish and build a hamlet, providing what a local medieval baron would need in terms of food and workshops. Guedelon is here to stay and evolve, for decades to come ♥

They can also rent it out to movie or TV productions in need of a Castle like landscape.

It has been both from the start. The core purpose of Guédelon is experimental archeology and castle study, and it was open for tourism essentially from the start in order to help fund the project.

Beyond the awesome scope of the project, I must say, there's something about this video that gives me such a warm and fuzzy summer feeling. maybe it's the audio design, it's just brilliant.

Lololol that castle looks like sh!tCompared to those of old. N most that r of discussion from our NonZombieCommunity are star forts of complex geometric design spanning miles out in all directions. The mantles above the windows aren’t even anything like the old no acoustic repelling attribution. And most didn’t even use mortar. Castle is light n powered w/ electricity n doesn’t have any connection to the known aether of that time. Be careful for the things u present echo in eternity so this is essentially BLASPHEMY. This looks like a child’s sandbox compared to a TRUE STAR FORT

It’s not exactly an act of pride. This is a scientific experiment with a budget. It’s experimental archaeology. Pride would simply hinder the objective observations they could take away from this.

Tu as tout faux beaucoup de français s'en moquent quelques-uns en sont fières et passent une vie de peine à leur rappeler ce que ce peuple fut

@@Vox_Popul1 That was exactly that indeed, archeological/historical science. I visited few years after they started and it was very interesting to watch the village, workers, life growing. Most of the workers are actually professionals at their task, stones, wood, iron. Many of them are "Compagnons du Tour de France" or "Best France worker" in their specialty. This project has also been used to train younger students, so it was a school as well. And people did not realized, but it is pretty much a lifetime project.

The best on this construction site is... the silence! There are lots of very busy people, you hear the hammering on the stones or the blacksmith's working, but all in all is a peaceful quietness about the whole place! Even if there are hundreds of visitors. No noisy machinery, no engins to transport the stones, but the slow path of horses who transports all they need around. That's what impressed me the most every time I was there.

@@vcie515 Yea, I'm not a very auditory person, I'm more visual, and I don't really pay attention to sounds (or lack of them) until someone points them out. But yes, now that you mention it, it's fantastic to just hear the little hammers tapping away, and the birds chirping in the background. It certainly beats hearing jackhammers, drills, and generators constantly going, and trucks beeping as they're backing up..

@@vcie515 and no damned boomboxes blasting "music" that easily can be confused for pneumatic hammers.

why is it taking them so long to build? 20 years using "period-accurate" techniques and yes without the actual need for a castle, i would think if it were real medieval times they would have been killed off before the castle was finished... history is bullshit.

Or it's all fake

@@ponchopower what

And this is how you make a good forgery, to weather it naturally

I think it also looks old to us mostly due to the sense of style. We just associate castles with the times they were built. It's the same phenomena as seeing a person dressed in period accurate attire.

@@WaffleCake Yeah but people dresses in period accurate attire still look modern to me, like they've used modern fabrics or something. Whereas this looks like a real castle from medieval times

BothBeckman: That is a crucial point of the game. The other being to keep the craftsmanship and know how alive. Paris cathédrale repair is also a great learning workplace for les compagnons du Devoir and many others.

Doesn't seem too experimental after 20 years.

I miss these shows, watched all of them on absolute history UKposts channel , it's a pity they don't do more of those kinds of shows

I would have missed that, I haven't had a tv licence for about 7 years

Yes, they were wondderful programs!

@@jasonseekoei5392 Yes! I know, it would be great if they made a new one. For a longtime I didn't know about the steam train one (still with Peter, Ruth, and Alex), but as far as I know that was the last thing they all made together. Those programs have surprisingly stuck with me as one of my favorite TV/movie discoveries from the past couple years.

I remember watching that series in the castle, and I have to echo your sentiments towards the Farm Series. I’ve watched them multiple times and still enjoy them.

Agreed, and to think the ancients figured this out thousands of years ago is amazing. Looking at a wonder such as the pyramids you truly get to appreciate how much effort and ingenuity goes into their creation.

hes explaining it with a nice german accent aswell haha

Masonry is one of those professions where it seems like magic when you don't know how it's done, but when you see the techniques, it's usually very simple (just painstakingly time consuming). The ingenuity of human craftsmen and builders never ceases to amaze me.

@@ariochiv Correct! From a stonemason.

The ARTE doc features a cross over with campus galli for the windows if my memory is right ...

@@testman9541 yes I was actually there when they made that….

I am certain that humanity will return to this natural rhythm in the coming decades. For me it is even vital... We will always have computers, medicines, a few machines... but if we want to survive we will have to find again this way of apprehending time

@@nabucho7006 natural rythm... Which nature ? Guédelon is the example of a human made landscape. Or impact of humans.on their ecosystem. Going tonthe water mill of Guédelon, there is a path that they have put crushed stone. Each year there are beatles that cross the path and each year the tourists walk on the bugs at that period mass kill them simply because they are tourists came for a castle and not for beatles. This is so human🤦🙈

No, a picture and description is enough no need to go on these ridiculous reenactments, just a waste of time. Also kids would rather get to know modern materials which they would actually use themselves.

@@Cortesevasive I think you don't understand the meaning of "experimental archeology"

@@Cortesevasivegrow up dude.

@@Cortesevasive shut up

Maybe you could leave larpers alone. They aren't hurting anybody

just mentioned that I'm a comment

The Chinese plan that far in advance.

Well they are using mostly medieval tools, they have to be taught those medieval skills and they spend time explaining to others what they are doing. All the while, they still work in any weather. That takes a lot of their time, hence is taking 35 yrs to finish the project.

Usually it would take less than a decade in medieval times. But they worked longer, didn't talk to visitors and generally there were a few more of them.

Check out Conwy Castle in Wales which is many times larger than this castle. King Edward I and his architect Master James of St George built both the castle and town walls in a barely believable four years between 1283 and 1287. They had more men and those men were already skilled in their trades since childhood. This is an absolutely wonderful project but it is a small number of people and is a living history project and so it isn't the same as a King or wealthy Baron wanting a new castle.

Props to your great great gramps!

prior to communisim there was english scottish and irish populations in russia .. osme of the iron working cities in the 17th and 18th century were built by english. there is russians still with scottish and english names , McMillan, Clarence, mores, Robertson. Jones, Pierce, Ruddock.. ect are some i have seen on russians documents.. its not super common but you see such names about. .. moscow in the 1500s had an area the english traders would stay even. you can tell its a european foreign name because its got no russian ending on it like sky or vich or such.. and it just immediately looks nonrussian .. .

You sir have an AWESOME SAUCE kind of ancestor. I tip my hat off to the gentleman.

Not a Frenchman, but I'm still proud of their work. The value of the historical knowledge alone being preserved and revived is incredible.

@SlackTheTruth Then get suitable clothing or have your house isolated...

@SlackTheTruth Silly comment. You can still copy lost architectural styles while modernizing the innards of the structure

@SlackTheTruth What about classical exterior with modern interiors? Would you go for that?

@SlackTheTruth I bet you’re a “new German”

@SlackTheTruth Im also german. Pretty sure he means like second or third generation immigrant.

There is a pretty thorough documentary made by ARTE channel (made or bought to an independant producer, but who cares…), it is available in French or German.

i wish you could visit this castle , it was amazing when i do it . The worker here are very friendly , even if they are working hard ,they took time to answer questions they probably have answer thousand time. I probably return here when this will be finished , to see the ending result .

There is still plenty of time for you to travel there and help out !

The first tool like hamer or axes were bought ones like they would have done in the middleage.This bootstraped the wood and iron work and the quary and keln... See th ARTE doc for more...

From what I've heard on site, the castle could be only the beginning, and they are planning on pursuing the project even further by building extra buildings -- similarly to the medieval watermill that they have built next to the castle a few years ago.

You wrote "volunteer" so do you actually get money for doing it or is this a pure passion project?

@@SimonLausch Dear Ano, I was raised in and around traditional people so this is both a passion and a lifestyle choice. I travel to projects that have a need within my skill sets and I teach, design, and build infrastructure according to those needs..."Money"...has never been my focal point as I have worked for nonprofits most of my life so only look to have expenses covered if the project is not "profit-based"... I'm in Iowa now on a timber frame project, but planning for and helping design a project in Northern Spain I hope to start construction on within the next 18 months..."Life" and living it well, has been a lifelong passion...with the traditional arts and crafts a cornerstone...

@@JayCWhiteCloud While that sounds like an ideal life what if you get disabled or grow too old to work? How do you get retirement funds?

@@SimonLausch Sorry Ano...sounds like you are stuck in the "modern consumer culture" and the many physical, mental and social illnesses it brings with it. Our worlds are so different, that it would be hard to relate our perspectives to one another it would seem? I experience questions like yours often from many clients that find themselves "stuck" within modernity and its insidious destructive mindsets...rather than the natural and traditional ones our species evolved within... As for "disable"...I'm not sure what you mean...???...I have friends and many acquaintances that have all manner of challenges (i.e "alternately abled") such as blindness, deafness, or even in wheelchairs. That has never stopped them from living natural and holistic lives...Age has absolutely nothing to do with it at all...I'm well over 60 years old...my teachers I learned from as a younger man were all born in the mid to late 1800s...with some over 100 years and still working till the day they passed on..." Age" is a modern excuse too often used by "first world" cultures not to continue enjoying life...living it fully and with appreciation... Since money has never been a focal point or motivation..." retirement funds"...has never been something I really concern myself with...If I "need money" it's not hard to find if you have developed any reasonable skill sets and things people want...and since I don't make it a focal point...it comes as I need it...For my entire life, anything I would want typically was something I could make with my own two hands...and for those things I could not make myself, acquiring them (or access to them) was never difficult...So, as I stated above, I doubt that much of my world is even relatable to yours...from the food I eat, where I sleep, the clothes I wear, to the way I exist daily...

@@JayCWhiteCloud I would love to do something like this in life but alas, I do not have the skills needed to be useful to others. Where should I go to become competent? Most people don't want to hire me either.

That´s an Old Military March Song ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fHqHn4Rubp6b26c.html Don´t click the link if you don´t like this kind of stuff.

Thanks Carl! Nice of you to take the time to comment, we love your work.

@@nicolasboullosa I've spent dayss watching yours! 😀

Moi aussi j'aime ton travail et tes vidéos Carl.

If we simply assume that people 800 years ago were just as smart and creative as us that live today, a lot of things become easier to understand.

Notre Dame was burnt by a criminal fire yet the government don't want to investigate on the most emblematic Cathedral of France because they don't want to put an end to immigration as it's an idea of the far right.

Yes, things appear to be coming along nicely.

How To Build A 13th Century Castle | Secrets Of The Castle | Absolute History

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" hahahaha

@@winstonsmith1457 “Hello, my name is Íñigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die!”

@@winstonsmith1457 Good sketch!

there was no lime at the castle did you watch the video

@Mr n Mrs Squidd yeah it's really interesting

could certainly see that happening once it's finished

It could, but there are MANY finished castle still standing from the middle age all over europe, so its value wouldn't be that big once it's finished

Haha! Yes, the priority was not defensive value but availability of ressources. Having to carry all that stuff up a steep hill is something you really don't want to do!

You should take him to see Ewloe Castle near Chester, (it's inside a forest, so you have to get there on foot). I was sim confused as to why it was not built on a hill, but it seems to mainly be to mark the Welsh - English border. The English ignored it as useless once they took control, so it fell into ruins.

@@steemlenn8797 If the location of the castle would have been importent in a strategic point of view, yes, they would have (in the middle age) brought all the necessary materials up on a hill!

@@vcie515 Yes, and that explains why it could take more than a century to build one. But still if in any way possible they used local materials and not somethign you ahve to transport over a long distance. So a castle might end up on a less defensible position than wished for because of material. It is always a calculstion of cost and result. Have a castle in a bad position or no castle in a good one because it costs 4 times the money?

It should however be noted that although the defensibility of the location is to be considered, that's not the only factor. Economics played a considerable part, so the local availability of resources, coupled with local politics, could easily override military considerations. Most castles throughout the medieval era weren't meant to be impregnable fortresses, but first and foremost were the home of a local lord. They were meant to display wealth, power, and protect the lord and his family from local threats, which high walls surrounded by a ditch would do just fine.

Minecraft irl lol

They're actually tremendously behind compared to what actually would require but as they mention in the video, they have to switch between actual work and tourism and they don't have the same manpower they had back in the days.

The work on the castle is funded by the visits. There is no village there, the building site is in a forest, the builders don't live on site. There has been however talk about building one once the castle is complete.

@@NouriaDiallo Good to know. It'll be interesting if they built a 17th or 18th century village next to the castle.

@@kairon156 If they build a village nearby the castle, it will be of the 13th/14th century. Same epoch than the castle. 17th and 18th would not be harmonious. But for now they just focus on finishing the castle. It's still a lot to do! :-)

@@vcie515 That's a good point. keeping within the theme of the era is important.

there was a sneaky mention of one way they make money in the video. they sell baskets. remember, the only ones used on sight are the round ones with the handles.

Thanks!

hello, it just so happens that the castle's UKposts channel has created a series of videos entirely subtitled in English. (I use google translation)

There was a bbc program a while ago about 3 english historians who worked on the project for a year. This was in english. Maybe worth looking out for.

Look for 'secrets of the castle' on youtube. This returns the bbc programs in the list. Well worth watching as are all the programs in the series.

@@gregutdmglaucos3757 thankyou for sharing this information

@@kwkw5711 thankyou! I will look for it,much appreciated!