12 and Count Alexander von Faber-Castell

Just a quick blog post for today’s 12th anniversary of the Bleistift blog:

One of Count Alexander von Faber-Castell’s estates, Wolfgangshof, maybe five miles from Faber-Castell’s headquarters, was recently used as the backdrop for a TV show about Franconian folk music (as far as I know the first TV show of its kind).

Wolfgangshof Anwanden (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)

There doesn’t seem to be any geoblocking going on as I can watch this video here in the UK without problems. It is available from the BR Mediathek (from Bavaria’s public-service radio and television broadcaster).

Count Alexander von Faber-Castell was the first “Faber-Castell” Count – before his marriage he was known as Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen.

You can read more about him on Sean’s Contrpauntalism blog or in my blog post Schwanberg and the Pencil Cedar.

7 thoughts on “12 and Count Alexander von Faber-Castell”

  1. Congratulations on making it to 12 years! Few blogs manage to run that long while posting as consistently as you have. I look forward to many more years of reading and enjoying Bleistift.

  2. Thank you very much for your kind comments and congratulations.
    Koralatov, unfortunately I have not posted much in recent months, so it’s by far not the consistency I wish for. The problem is that I have too many ideas for blog posts but no time to do them.

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