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Neuschwanstein Castle ( German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the ...
Neuschwanstein Castle, elaborate castle near Füssen, Germany, built atop a rock ledge over the Pöllat Gorge in the Bavarian Alps by order of Bavaria’s King Louis II (“Mad King Ludwig”). Construction began in 1868 and was never completed. Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Louis II spent much of his childhood at Hohenschwangau ...
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Rudolf was born on 1 May 1218 at Limburgh Castle near Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in the Breisgau region of present-day southwestern Germany. [1] He was the son of Count Albert IV of Habsburg and Hedwig, daughter of Count Ulrich of Kyburg. [2] Around 1232, he was given as a squire to his uncle, Rudolf I, Count of Laufenburg, to train in knightly ...
Nov 24, 2020 · Completed in 1886, Neuschwanstein was inspired by Ludwig II’s declared desire to live somewhere designed “in the authentic style of the old German knights”. Ironically the castle that Ludwig desired to be his own private sanctuary, built away from the public eye in a remote mountain setting, wasn’t completed until seven weeks after his ...
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Feb 29, 2024 · Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany, near Hohenschwangau and Füssen. King Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle. It was designed in 1868 by set designer Christian Jank and then realized by architect Eduard Riedel.
Neuschwanstein Castle - a monarch's dream come true. Bavaria's King Ludwig II ordered his Gothic castle to be built atop this magnificent rocky outcrop overlooking Pollat Gorge. His fairytale castle is surely one of the most photographed buildings in the world. Yet it started out life as nothing more than the architectural fantasy of a Munich ...
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Without a doubt, Neuschwanstein Castle represents one of the most popular and most visited castles in the Germany. It was built in the German region of Bavaria, near the town Fussen by the commission of the King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was known by his nickname “Fairytale King”. He has built this castle to be his residence, and to support ...
