Bad Salzig; the Hostile BrothersTurner
places the »Hostile Brothers« – the castles of Sterrenberg and
Liebenstein – on an unnaturally high mountain ridge. In reality the
slopes, as seen from the riverbank in Bad Salzig, appear considerably
lower. The light conditions depicted here may well come very close to
the actual atmosphere at the time. Coming from Boppard, he looks back in
order to capture this perspective. Turner, too, would probably have
been familiar with the legend of the two brothers who, due to their
profound mutual hatred, erected a “wall of discord” between their
castles, producing this unique architectural constellation. Today Burg
Sterrenberg is owned by the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate and is
used as a restaurant.
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