Building a medieval castle from scratch 

I always love seeing how Guédelon is getting along.

_"Why do you build a medieval castle"_ *"Because building a cathedral would have been more complicated"* I absolutely love this (slightly paraphrased).

True appreciation of how hard it was to make these marvels of construction without modern technology.

Craftsmanship!!! That's why I admire older buildings in NYC and hate when they randomly knock them down to build an ugly building that looks like an ice cube tray. No character whatsoever! The building of this castle is fantastic with people using real talent!!!

There's a documentary series on this castle done in 2014 with Historian Ruth Goodman. I remember seeing it and was fascinated. Have been keeping tabs on the castle ever since. Would love to visit it some day. The show was called Secrets of the Castle. Highly recommended.

The BBC did a great Series about making a Castle. This one and they show a lot of the steps. Even how the workers lived. Thanks for showing it. It has been a few years since I last saw it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Fantastic synergy between construction, scholarly research, historical and practical education of scholars, trade workers, and the general public, and tourism that funds the project! The greatest value in the project, by all measures of value, is in its ongoing work rather than in it being so complete as for work to end.

been following this for the better part of over 10 yrs now. My wife found it, and at that time they were saying it would take minimum of 25 yrs to build. Here we are 2+ yrs past that minimum, what a wonderful project.

Correct me if I'm wrong but everything has been built using techniques and materials of the time. Only 3 contemporary items can be found on the site,: ropes, goggles and working shoes, all this for insurance reasons. Everything else, from the iron for the tools, to the last roof tile was produced on the premises, with the materials found on the premises.

I'm jealous of these people. To have a passion like they must in the first place, and then getting to live their dream life like the stone mason said. I can't even imagine how peaceful that feels.

That's amazing using original pigments to do their wall designs. Like a French colonial Williamsburg.

I think it's also important to note that going back and exploring long abandoned/forgotten methods can help reveal things we may have missed when upgrading to the next best thing. We may had improved but what did we give up for that and can we utilize what was given up today now that technology has gone even further! I absolutely love seeing how the castle has progressed over the years.

every now and then a video about Guédelon is released, its a nice way to see the evolution. first one I saw they were finishing the main building, and not a single tower had a roof

My grandfather was a carpenter. I do lots of types of art and crafts. As a creative type, I can say that I appreciate and love doing things old school, far more than to use modern technology.

That is so Epic. This is something I’d want to volunteer on the weekends!

This will be very useful. This is a repository of conservation skills.

The knowledge of the old ways, along with the benefit of modern research to prevent the use of harmful substances. The best of both worlds, brought together to keep history alive for the modern age. I love to hear that the skills developed and honed there are helping to restore Notre-Dame. Proof, if there ever was any, that the ways of the past were not only better in some ways, but still as relevant as ever. Imagine how hard it would've otherwise been to find people with the knowledge and hands-on skill for such an undertaking, were it not for the years that this wonderful place had been growing. Amazing. I hope to go there and see it myself, someday.

This is one of the coolest projects happening on our planet today I would argue; its not only fascinating but doing a superior job at preserving historical techniques and technologies.

They had a similar project in Arkansas where they were building a castle using authentic techniques. We visited it once or twice. I think it shut down about 15 years ago.

27 years into a 25 year project... This is so awe inspiring

Truly wonderful...rediscovering ancient knowledge.

Dream job. I love learning how people did stuff before modern tools and techniques.

This is awesome. I hope they have a brewery.

I remeber reading about this castle as a child, now I'm 20 is crazy how time passes

Yes compared to instant homes made today.😅😅 Just beautiful.

Even the way they are building the castle is a work of art. Lovely.

L'un de mes endroits préférés. Je l'ai visité pour la première fois il y a 20 ans et plusieurs fois depuis. C'est toujours intéressant de voir comment progresse la construction.

Thanks, that is very interesting. My Dad was a stonemason. I bet he would have enjoyed visiting.

This reminds me so much of a guy I remembered back at my home state of Colorado, who was building his own castle up in the rockies.

Extremly impressive. That they helped with Notre Dame shows that the intentions; keeping these traditions alive; worked.

I would love to visit this castle.

I think this is such an awesome project! So worth the journey on all sides.

So cool to see it grow over the years

The original definition of using tools to make tools!!

I would genuinely love to work there myself! Such an awesome thing.

Incredible segment

It is a really special place!

Absolutely beautiful. Magnificent castle A great credit to the workers and everyone involved

I have been there twice, last time was 7 years ago, amazing to see how much they have progressed.

Love how much they've gotten done, I watched a documentary on it or TV show can't remember, they are really putting in their souls

Peasant jobs nice! I would love a castle.

This is SO COOL! Thank you for sharing this.

My town used to be a roman fort so we also have something like this in our town but roman style. It used to be a lot bigger back in the day, but sadly due to lack of tourist they had to scale down a lot. It used to also show how the tribal people outside of the roman fort (and more specifcally locally) lived. You could even go there and bake bread the roman way etc... very cool.

There also is a smaller, more rural project in south-west germany, north of lake constance, called Campus Galli. Experimental archeology kinda goes hard

I hope this project gets more attention and help

What a truly wonderful story😊. I enjoyed that a lot.👍👍 TY

❤I would love to find more projects like this

Thats so freaking cool. Would like to visit it one day.

This is fascinating. Every bit of it.

Construindo um castelo 👍👍

Love the medieval castles and the look of them. good video

Finally got to go there last summer while on vacation. I had a great time there.

I remember when they broke ground on this. I'm happy to see that they didn't give up. Personally, I would have built a keep instead, something smaller.

Awesome to see how some are still using age-long techniques to make buildings and structures like this in our day-n-age to resemble the past.

Simply amazing!

This is such a cool project and I wish these folks all the best. It's also going to REALLY confuse people in a few hundred years!

Beautiful!

What am I doing here on my couch 🛋️ 🤔 What a marvelous project I should have known about 30 years ago. Oh, at that time I didn't know, what I know today. Sh...

Someone built a castle type home in Eastern Connecticut which is up for sale and it is very impressive and massive.

So cool

It’s nice…to take the nature and design in ways, another time…😮

Amazing!! I want to be a part of the village

So beautiful! This is how we used to live... A Hard Day's Work and something to be proud of, to be connected to Nature and everything around us not like California forever and Silicon Valley.

This is amazing !!

Fantastic!!

There is a great series called “secrets of the castle” that goes through how and why the castle is being built.

I've been there - it's great 🙂

Wow! Amazingly!

3:19 For those wondering where the Freemasons came from, the Notre Dame fire is a great example: they used skilled workers from hundreds of kilometres away. All trades in those days were ruled by a Guild you had to be a member of. This was to ensure quality but also to protect the local trades market. It meant you couldn't work outside of your Guild's area, with huge fines and expulsion for those who did. The only tradespeople allowed to work where they wanted, were the masons as they were needed to build massive cathedrals. It was impossible to all get them in the Guild of the area or the communicate with they Guilds the workers belonged to. A system of secret handshakes was developed, amongst other things, to identify yourself. It is impossible to forge a complex handshake, which you need to know. Being able to work in a highly sought after trade, made masons rich and influential for their social position. The ability to move to different cities for work, meant they travelled much more than the average person and learned a lot more. Not just knowledge, but people. Over time, it became a society of rich and powerful people. Nothing secret, as it has been known since the day they started.

Very cool

This is cool I saw the castle before but they were always old uploads I'm glad this was an update instead and how they helped Notridam is neat didn't know that eather

Amazing

If I ever were to visit Europe, this would be the reason.

I wish I lived in France so that I could see this place. I would ask to film shorts there and help advertise the place in return.

crazy to see how far they have come!, remember this "story" since digging the first holes 😅

this is what i imagine if we were still living in ancient times but with modern technology 😂

🎶Guedelon gang, Guedelong gang, each one builds castles in their own way, the mason has a chisel and the carpenter a saw, Guedelon gang Guedelon gang!🎶

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OK, if ever there was a worthwhile project, this is it.

I believe it was on the history squad or the one that does features about doing excavations in a few days, if you know what I am talking about you know. The reference was a castle that took YEARS to build. They employed so many people around the clock that there was a line of people constantly for years, all hours of the day, and it was there for so long that merchants set up shop next to the waiting line so people could get things while they were waiting to do their work. If I remember correctly, it was around the clock work and a few thousand people were employed. I think it took 5 years to build. Its an English castle, there are records of this, so maybe what I said, to those that are curious, is enough for them to know which one. But the idea that this castle was unique in that regard is probably not true. Its likely that some castles too much more work, people and time. Now, imagine our modern idea of what a worksite is supposed to be like. Also, it has taken that long, but a "medieval village" has sprung up around it. Much like castles back then. People got used to the influx of people and settled there. And it offered protection. Even without war, a castle seems to be an economy builder.

Excellente

:) You all are Amazing, every time I look in it's better. To *watch (RU-vid wise) a castle being built in all of the right ways and by the people with the right skills it's like a fantasy come to life.

Absolutely amazing! Great story, so fascinating.

Wow!

Secrets of the Castle with Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn is very good. The spent three months there documenting how the process of how things would have been done during the time period, and how the workers would have lived. They were working one of the corner towers during that time. The artisans did have advanced math (e.g. geometry) - they just didn't share it, considering it a trade secret.

1:23 Well, in Meßkirch (Germany) they are currently building a whole monastery after they were inspired by Guédelon.

This is experimental archeology. by recreating the techniques, they help understanding the remains found in archeology. they help understanding what the times really were, help understanding the economy of the times and give a new light to the text that are left from these times.

Who else already knows about this from Tom Scott?

This would be the most fantastic thing to do. I would like to see a follow up for when they make the stain glass please There are a few outrageous things id love to do before i go to the beyond Archeological dig and this. ❤

I always thought it would be cool to build a castle but with all the modern conveniences on the inside.

Look closer... I think I saw her... I will call her name... 🏰 "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb thy golden stair" 🏰 ✨

I have not seen the progress in a good while. Looks dar well complete. Im sure it will probably never be truly complete, but it has come a long way. Another few years should see a kitchen and chapel I imagine. I hope to visit in the not too distant future.

magnifique

Wow

i clicked on this thinking it was Manor Lords

This is going to really mess up future archaelogists hahahaha i wish i could be there in a 1000yrs as they argue about the age of this castle.

Hopefully they are not only researching old documents to apply and test but also creating new documents on what works from those old interpretations.

Carbon Neutral Castle! I love it!

I'm imagining the confusion of 31st-century archeologists trying to explain the late 20th-century societal collapse that led to a medieval castle being built in the 21st century

Do any of the people that help build the castle have their own channel? I’d like to watch it get built or have some sort of daily insight but all I find is documentaries and news.