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Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany.
Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (left) with his parents and his younger brother, Prince Otto, 1860. Born at Nymphenburg Palace, [5] which is located in what is today part of central Munich, he was the elder son of Maximilian II of Bavaria and Marie of Prussia, Crown Prince and Princess of Bavaria, who became King and Queen in 1848 after the abdication of the former's father, Ludwig I, during ...
When the motive is the enforced marriage, many modern tales soften it, by representing the daughter as adopted (as in Andrew Lang's version of "Donkeyskin" for The Grey Fairy Book), the marriage as put forth and urged by the king's councillors rather than the king himself, or the entire notion being a fit of madness from which he recovers in ...
Ashford Castle: County Mayo, Ireland. Once the beloved ancestral home of the royal O’Brien family and now a five-star resort, Ashford Castle has stood tall on the shores of Lough Corrib for over ...
The Crystal Castle, from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power; Castle Grayskull, from the He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon series; Castle Lemongrab, from Adventure Time; Castle Wyvern, in Gargoyles; Death's Castle, from Adventure Time; Dreamland Castle, from Disenchantment; Ice King's Castle, from Adventure Time; Katz Kastle, from ...
Hohenschwangau Castle at night. Hohenschwangau Castle (German: Schloss Hohenschwangau) is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany.It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Cinderella Castle is a fairy tale castle at the center of two Disney theme parks: the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland at the Tokyo Disney Resort.Based on Cinderella's fairy tale castle from Disney's 1950 animated feature film, both serve as the symbol and flagship attraction for their respective theme parks.
"The King of the Golden Mountain" (German: Der König vom goldenen Berg) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 92). [1] [2] [3] The main version anthologized was taken down from a soldier; there is also a variant collected from Zwehrn (Zweheren ) whose storyline summarized by Grimm in his notes. [4]