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house of Wittelsbach, German noble family that provided rulers of Bavaria and of the Rhenish Palatinate until the 20th century. The name was taken from the castle of Wittelsbach, which formerly stood near Aichach on the Paar in Bavaria. In 1124, Otto V, count of Scheyern (died 1155), removed the residence of his family to Wittelsbach and called ...
Nov 14, 2016 · On October 18, 1921, King Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria and last ruler of the House of Wittelsbach died. His body was brought back to Munich on November 5, 1921 and, despite fears of a movement to restore the monarchy, a state funeral was held with an estimated 100,000 spectators. He was buried in the Frauenkirche in the center of Munich.
kingdom in Central Europe between 1806 and 1918, from January 1871 part of the German Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Kingdom of Bavaria ( German: Königreich Bayern; Bavarian: Kenigreich Bayern) was a historic German state that existed from 1805–1918. It became the Free State of Bavaria in 1918 and today since 1945 it is ...
This large-scale portrait shows King Ludwig II (1845–1886) as a Grandmaster of the Knights of St. George. It was painted a year after Ludwig’s death and was the late king’s official portrait, to be displayed in the Bavarian parliament. Ludwig ruled over the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1864 until his mysterious death by drowning in Lake ...
The prehistoric settlement history of Bavaria started about 3,500 years ago in the Bronze Age. From 800 BC. The Celts came to Bavaria from Western Europe, preceded by tribes such as the Illyrians. In the 1st century BC. At about the same time the Romans arose from the south and the Germans from the north. The Romans initially prevailed and ...
Nov 1, 2016 · Otto was then promoted to captain on his eighteenth birthday on April 27, 1866 when he began active military service in the Royal Bavarian Infantry Guards. In this role, the Prince participated in both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and later as colonel in the fateful Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. When King Maximilian II died on March 10 ...
Historical event. 7 January 1845. Ludwig III’s castles include the famous Neuschwanstein castle in the mountains, the summer palace Nymphenburg near Munich, and the large Herrenchiemsee palace on the Bavarian lake Chiemsee. On this day, the last king to rule Bavaria was born. His name was Ludwig III and was a member of the famous Wittelsbach ...
