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Schloss Neuschwanstein (Neuschwanstein Castle) which inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty's castle. It stands above Hohenschwangau a village in Schwangau, Ostallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany.
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 Palace on the remote northern edges of the Alps as a retreat but also in honour of composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
Ludwig chose to pay for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds. Work began in 1869, the walls are made of brick with light-coloured limestone as decoration.
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. Since then, more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle
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Schloss Neuschwanstein (Neuschwanstein Castle) which inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty's castle. It stands above Hohenschwangau a village in Schwangau, Ostallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany.
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 Palace on the remote northern edges of the Alps as a retreat but also in honour of composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
Ludwig chose to pay for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds. Work began in 1869, the walls are made of brick with light-coloured limestone as decoration.
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. Since then, more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle