Discover a fantastic landscape
The castles - on the tracks of King Ludwigs II.
You don’t build a fairy-tale-castle just somewhere over the corner. Our country is the most beautiful spot in the world. At least it is not difficult to believe that.
Of course it were NOT the makers of Disneyland or the Las Vegas Illusionists who gave the world the Neuschwanstein Caste. A castle better known – even in mandarin or kanji – as the Fairy-Tale-Castle. It was the bavarian King Ludwig II who had built Neuschwanstein Castle.
But there is more: come and visit the architectural treasures like Linderhof Castle, Hohenschwangau Castle, Füssen Castle as well as the Ettal Monastery and the baroque era Wieskirche too.
You will enjoy the experience.
Neuschwanstein today - one of Europe's most-visited castles
Seven weeks after the death of King Ludwig II in 1886, Neuschwanstein was opened to the public. The shy king had built the castle in order to withdraw from public life – now vast numbers of people came to view his private refuge.
Today Neuschwanstein is one of the most popular of all the palaces and castles in Europe. Every year 1.3 million people visit "the castle of the fairy-tale king". In the summer around 6,000 visitors a day stream through rooms that were intended for a single inhabitant.
King Ludwig II
King of Bavaria 1864 - 1886
* 25. 8. 1845
Nymphenburg,
† 13. 6. 1886 in Lake
Starnberg.
Even before he died, the king had already become something
of a legend. "I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and others", Ludwig
once told his governess, and it is this mysterious element that still fascinates
people today. The poet Paul Verlaine called Ludwig II the "only true king of
this century". The shy dreamer, who had none of the typical characteristics of a
popular king, lives on, still idolized, as "the Kini".
Ludwig II was possessed by the idea of a holy kingdom by the Grace of God. In reality he was a constitutional monarch, a head of state with rights and duties and little freedom of action. For this reason he built a fantasy world around him in which – far removed from reality – he could feel he was a real king. From 1875 on he lived at night and slept during the day.
