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Although Linderhof is much smaller than Versailles, it is evident that the palace of the French Sun-King Louis XIV (who was an idol for Ludwig) was its inspiration. The staircase, for example, is a reduction of the famous Ambassador's staircase in Versailles, which would be copied in full in Herrenchiemsee, another palace project by Ludwig that was designed less as a residential building than ...
But this construction had to make place for a new Linderhof Palace, built 1874–1879. From 1868 Ludwig II commissioned a project for a new Versailles Palace in Linderhof Valley. From December 1868 till September 1873, Dollmann presented seventeen different floor plans and numerous front elevations as well as many drawings of the bedroom.
English: Linderhof Palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed. The water parterre in front of the palace is dominated by a large basin with the gilt fountain group Flora and puttos. The fountain's water jet is nearly 25 m high.
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English: Linderhof Palace is a Schloss in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II. of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.
The palace was shaped in a 'W' with wings flanking the central edifice. Only 16 of the 70 rooms were on the ground floor. [2] Though it was to have been an equivalent to the Palace of Versailles, only the central portion was built before the king died and construction was discontinued with 50 of the 70 rooms still incomplete.
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