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The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
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It was designed as the Romantic ideal of a Knight’s Castle. Unlike real Castles, whose building stock is in most cases the result of Centuries of building activity, Neuschwanstein was planned from the inception as an intentionally-asymmetric building, and erected in consecutive stages.[33]
Typical attributes of a Castle were included, but real fortifications — the most important feature of a Mediæval aristocratic estate — were dispensed with.
The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
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The Palace complex is entered through the symmetrical Gatehouse, flanked by two Stair Towers.
The Eastward-pointing Gate Building is the only structure of the Palace whose wall area is fashioned in high-contrast colours; the exterior walls are cased with Red Bricks, the Court Fronts with Yellow Limestone.
The Roof Cornice is surrounded by Pinnacles. The upper floor of the Gatehouse is surmounted by a Crow-Stepped Gable and held King Ludwig II’s first lodging at Neuschwanstein, from which he occasionally observed the building work before the Hall was completed.
The Ground Floors of the Gatehouse were intended to accommodate the Stables.
Pictures of the Lohengrin saga. Drawing Room, Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886. Postcard published circa 1890 — 1900. Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17481.
Source: Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17481); Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Library of Congress. Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-00182.
Author: Josef Albert (1825 — 1886).
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The Courtyard has two levels; the lower one is defined to the East by the Gatehouse, and to the North by the foundations of the Rectangular Tower and the Gallery Building.
The Southern end of the Courtyard is open, imparting a view of the surrounding Mountain scenery.
At its Western end, the Courtyard is delimited by a Bricked Embankment, whose polygonally protracting bulge marks the Choir of the originally-projected Chapel; this three-Nave Church, never built, was intended to form the base of a ninety-metre (295-feet) Keep, the planned centrepiece of the architectural ensemble. A flight of steps at the side gives access to the upper level.
Pictures of the Tannhauser saga. Study (Arbeitszimmer), Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886. Postcard published circa 1890 — 1900. Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17480.
Source: Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17480); Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Library of Congres. Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-00181.
Author: Josef Albert (1825 — 1886).
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Today, the Foundation Plan of the Chapel-Keep is marked out in the Upper Courtyard pavement.
The most striking structure of the Upper Court level is the Rectangular Tower. Like most of the Court Buildings, it mostly serves a decorative purpose as part of the ensemble.
PART TWELVE FOLLOWS.
Bravo, Zephyrinus! One can only try to imagine the depthless artistic opulence and grandeur of each of these completed suites with their fascinatingly complex Wagnerian themes in these rooms that seem endless (yet we understand many rooms were not able to be completed in Neueschwanstein Castle prior to the untimely death of King Ludwig II). A shame.
ReplyDelete(No doubt Jeeves and Perkins are clamoring ceaselessly to Zephyrinus to pass Oktoberfest in residence at the Castle “in the regal manner to which they are accustomed”). Hide thy cheque book, Zephyrinus!) -Comment by Dante P
Thank you, Dante P, our Mediæval Liturgical Travel Correspondent and Trip Advisor.
DeleteDelighted that Neuschwanstein Castle and its architecture and history proved of interest. It is a magnificent structure and worthy of a visit.
Dante P is very prescient in mentioning that Perkins and Jeeves have expressed an unhealthy interest in visiting the environs of this outstanding creation. Not having the first-clue about architecture (or history), these two reprobates insist that they dearly want to learn !!!
Their insistence and persistence in mentioning travelling at the same time that Oktoberfest is in operation, is purely co-incidental.
They maintain.