２０１９年２月６日（Wed.） 今日も懐かしいドイツの地名が目に留まりました。 （ ニュースソース： DWーDE ２月５日発 ）
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Freudenberg: A small German town but a big Instagram star
フロイデンベルク： ちいさなドイツの街ですが、インスタグラムでは有名。（意訳）
Pictures of Freudenberg's snow-covered, 17th century houses have drawn fans from around the world, especially visitors from Japan. DW visited the German town to find out what it's like living in a tourist attraction.
雪に覆われたフロイデンベルクの写真、１７世紀の家並みが世界中の関心を集めています。 特に、日本から。何が惹きつける要素なのかを調べて見ました。（一部、意訳）
After climbing the steep stairs to reach a hilltop overlooking Freudenberg, it's easy to see why tourists from around the world come to visit the western German town, located in a rural area about a 90 minute drive away from Frankfurt am Main or Cologne.
Down below, over 80 timber-framed houses are perfectly aligned in the panoramic view from the city park. Their black and white facades and snow-covered rooves look as though they've jumped out of the pages of a fairytale.
It's wintry images like these that have made Freudenberg a star on Instagram, with the town tagged in over 11,000 posts on the photo-sharing social media platform.
The pictures of Freudenberg's old town, dubbed the Alter Flecken, have "caused an avalanche" of interest, the town's mayor Nicole Reschke told DW.
"In the past six months, the images of the Alter Flecken, with or without snow, have spread through social media and other media platforms to such an extent that interest has risen — and we've already seen more tourists," she added.
Most of the people who live in the historic houses don't mind all the attention, one resident told DW
Although there's already been a boost in the number of tourists coming through the town, the full extent of Freudenberg's Instagram-boom will likely only become clear within the next three years, Reschke said.
"We are curious to see whether this will continue."
A rise in Japanese visitors
Busloads of tourists, many from Asian countries, regularly roll into Freudenberg, parking at the base of the stairs that lead up to the panoramic city views.
Besides snapping pictures from the city park, visitors also take advantage of the town's open-air stage, the Technology Museum and the local hiking trails.
Freudenberg hosts around 30,000 overnight guests a year, although the actual number of tourists is likely to be much higher.
Many groups, especially those that arrive on bus tours, only spend a few hours in town — making it difficult to get an accurate count of the people coming through Freudenberg, mayor Reschke explained.
（超抜粋） 訪問者の大半はバスツアー客です。 滞在時間も数時間程度となっています。 ・・・
（注： 以下、転載を略します。 原文サイトはこちら ）
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私は２０１３年に単独で現地を訪問しました。 ケルンに滞在した３日間の中の１日をフロイデンベルクへの日帰り旅行としたもので、列車とバスを乗り継いで現地にたどり着いた次第です。 （その時の様子はこちらに掲載してあります。）
訪問のキッカケは、ガイドブックに小さく紹介されていたのですが、木組みの家並みが美しいとの紹介だったので、旅程に組み込んだ次第です。
ドイツに於ける、こうした地方都市の存在や継続は、日本の一極集中的・画一的な考えとは異なる結果ではないかと、今も思っています（日本でも、頑張っている地域はありますが）。
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＜原文の一部＞
Freudenberg: A small German town but a big Instagram star
フロイデンベルク： ちいさなドイツの街ですが、インスタグラムでは有名。（意訳）
Pictures of Freudenberg's snow-covered, 17th century houses have drawn fans from around the world, especially visitors from Japan. DW visited the German town to find out what it's like living in a tourist attraction.
雪に覆われたフロイデンベルクの写真、１７世紀の家並みが世界中の関心を集めています。 特に、日本から。何が惹きつける要素なのかを調べて見ました。（一部、意訳）
After climbing the steep stairs to reach a hilltop overlooking Freudenberg, it's easy to see why tourists from around the world come to visit the western German town, located in a rural area about a 90 minute drive away from Frankfurt am Main or Cologne.
Down below, over 80 timber-framed houses are perfectly aligned in the panoramic view from the city park. Their black and white facades and snow-covered rooves look as though they've jumped out of the pages of a fairytale.
It's wintry images like these that have made Freudenberg a star on Instagram, with the town tagged in over 11,000 posts on the photo-sharing social media platform.
The pictures of Freudenberg's old town, dubbed the Alter Flecken, have "caused an avalanche" of interest, the town's mayor Nicole Reschke told DW.
"In the past six months, the images of the Alter Flecken, with or without snow, have spread through social media and other media platforms to such an extent that interest has risen — and we've already seen more tourists," she added.
Most of the people who live in the historic houses don't mind all the attention, one resident told DW
Although there's already been a boost in the number of tourists coming through the town, the full extent of Freudenberg's Instagram-boom will likely only become clear within the next three years, Reschke said.
"We are curious to see whether this will continue."
A rise in Japanese visitors
Busloads of tourists, many from Asian countries, regularly roll into Freudenberg, parking at the base of the stairs that lead up to the panoramic city views.
Besides snapping pictures from the city park, visitors also take advantage of the town's open-air stage, the Technology Museum and the local hiking trails.
Freudenberg hosts around 30,000 overnight guests a year, although the actual number of tourists is likely to be much higher.
Many groups, especially those that arrive on bus tours, only spend a few hours in town — making it difficult to get an accurate count of the people coming through Freudenberg, mayor Reschke explained.
（超抜粋） 訪問者の大半はバスツアー客です。 滞在時間も数時間程度となっています。 ・・・
（注： 以下、転載を略します。 原文サイトはこちら ）
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私は２０１３年に単独で現地を訪問しました。 ケルンに滞在した３日間の中の１日をフロイデンベルクへの日帰り旅行としたもので、列車とバスを乗り継いで現地にたどり着いた次第です。 （その時の様子はこちらに掲載してあります。）
訪問のキッカケは、ガイドブックに小さく紹介されていたのですが、木組みの家並みが美しいとの紹介だったので、旅程に組み込んだ次第です。
ドイツに於ける、こうした地方都市の存在や継続は、日本の一極集中的・画一的な考えとは異なる結果ではないかと、今も思っています（日本でも、頑張っている地域はありますが）。
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