Yea, I figured it wouldn't be uniform - these things rarely, if ever, are.
Also, as I mentioned in OP, the source material for the fanfiction I'm writing takes place in a fictional town heavily modeled after the layout and architecture of Nördlingen - there's some places in the source material that are identical to the real town, or clearly referenced with some alteration for plot purposes. (Though, there are also locations that are changed or added for plot convenience, such as a boarding school and some lightly forested areas inside the walls...) That's why I mentioned Swabia, as well as the larger area of Bavaria.
Though, the fanfic takes place inside an in-universe book written by a person from the town (like how the titular book-within-a-book in The Neverending Story is both a book you can read, and a place with living people inside it), which we never see the inside of in canon but we know real people can travel to, and I'm imagining that place is the written as the sort of "some other place similar to but not quite Here, in some imagined past" that the settings of fairytales often are. I feel like my closest bet for a "real" model for that fiction-within-fiction, if I want one, is Hohenschwangau, as the staff's pre-production inspiration tour also included scouring Neuschwanstein for swan-related imagery (all the Lohengrin stuff, etc) to pluck and modify. (Swans are... a major motif in the show, being associated with "good" characters from the in-universe fairy tale. Lohengrin gets namedropped, a depiction of the Swan Knight's swan-led boat is adapted into a flying chariot that two characters use to enter the fairytale world, and the in-universe fairy tale itself contains elements of Swan Lake.)
I hope nothing I've said as an American asking questions is too dumb or ignorant.
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Yea, I figured it wouldn't be uniform - these things rarely, if ever, are.
Also, as I mentioned in OP, the source material for the fanfiction I'm writing takes place in a fictional town heavily modeled after the layout and architecture of Nördlingen - there's some places in the source material that are identical to the real town, or clearly referenced with some alteration for plot purposes. (Though, there are also locations that are changed or added for plot convenience, such as a boarding school and some lightly forested areas inside the walls...) That's why I mentioned Swabia, as well as the larger area of Bavaria.
Though, the fanfic takes place inside an in-universe book written by a person from the town (like how the titular book-within-a-book in The Neverending Story is both a book you can read, and a place with living people inside it), which we never see the inside of in canon but we know real people can travel to, and I'm imagining that place is the written as the sort of "some other place similar to but not quite Here, in some imagined past" that the settings of fairytales often are. I feel like my closest bet for a "real" model for that fiction-within-fiction, if I want one, is Hohenschwangau, as the staff's pre-production inspiration tour also included scouring Neuschwanstein for swan-related imagery (all the Lohengrin stuff, etc) to pluck and modify. (Swans are... a major motif in the show, being associated with "good" characters from the in-universe fairy tale. Lohengrin gets namedropped, a depiction of the Swan Knight's swan-led boat is adapted into a flying chariot that two characters use to enter the fairytale world, and the in-universe fairy tale itself contains elements of Swan Lake.)
I hope nothing I've said as an American asking questions is too dumb or ignorant.