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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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Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein) is a 19th-Century historical Palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the South of Germany, near the border with Austria.
It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the municipality of Schwangau, above the incorporated
village of Hohenschwangau, which is also the location of Hohenschwangau Castle.
Despite the main residence of the Bavarian Monarchs at the time — the Munich Residenz — being one of the most extensive Palace complexes in the World, King Ludwig II of Bavaria felt the need to escape from the constraints he saw himself exposed to in Munich, and commissioned Neuschwanstein Castle on the remote Northern edges of the Alps as a retreat, but also in honour of Composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
The Castle was intended to serve as a private residence for the King, but he died in 1886, and it was opened to the public shortly after his death.[1]
It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the municipality of Schwangau, above the incorporated
village of Hohenschwangau, which is also the location of Hohenschwangau Castle.
Neuschwanstein Project Drawing.
Entwurf “Neue Burg Hohenschwangau”
(Schloss Neuschwanstein).
Artist: Christian Jank (1833–1888).
Date: 1869.
Collection: Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung.
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The closest town is Füssen. The Castle stands above the
narrow Gorge of the Pöllat Stream, East of the Alpsee and Schwansee Lakes, close to the mouth of the Lech into Lake Forggensee.
Since 2025, the Castle is part of the UNESCO World
Heritage Site “The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee”. According to Guinness World Records, at sixty-five metres
(213 feet), it is the tallest Castle in the World.
Despite the main residence of the Bavarian Monarchs at the time — the Munich Residenz — being one of the most extensive Palace complexes in the World, King Ludwig II of Bavaria felt the need to escape from the constraints he saw himself exposed to in Munich, and commissioned Neuschwanstein Castle on the remote Northern edges of the Alps as a retreat, but also in honour of Composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
The three-winged complex was built between 1869 and 1892 based on plans by Eduard Riedel in the Neo-Romanesque Style. Mediæval Knights’ Castles served as its architectural model. The Throne Room, the Bedroom, and the Minstrels’ Hall are particularly noteworthy.
Ludwig II chose to pay for the Palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds.
Ludwig II chose to pay for the Palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds.
“Both dwell at the heights of humanity !”
Wagner, Richard; German composer, Leipzig (Germany) 22.5.1813 - Venice (Italy) 13.2.1883. - “Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !” (“ . . . both dwell at the heights of humanity !”) - (Richard Wagner and King Ludwig II of Bavaria; - the title is a quotation from Friedrich Schiller’s Play “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” (The Maid of Orleans) VII, 1,2: “Drum soll der Sänger mit dem König gehen, / Sie wohnen beide auf der Menschheit Höhen”).
“Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !”
Wagner, Richard; Komponist Leipzig 22.5.1813 - Venedig 13.2.1883. - “Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !” - (Richard Wagner und König Ludwig II. von Bayern; - Bildtitel nach Zitat aus Friedrich Schillers “Die Jungfrau von Orleans’ VII, 1,2: “Drum soll der Sänger mit dem König gehen, / Sie wohnen beide auf der Menschheit Höhen”). Gemälde, 1890, von Kurt von Rozynski.
Artist: Kurt von Rozynski.
Date: 1 February 1890.
Source: https://www.akg-images.de/
Author: Kurt von Rozynski
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