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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 ...
One was called Schwanstein Castle. [nb 1] In 1832, Ludwig's father, King Maximilian II of Bavaria, bought its ruins to replace them with the comfortable neo-Gothic palace known as Hohenschwangau Castle. Finished in 1837, the palace became his family's summer residence, and his elder son Ludwig (born 1845) spent a large part of his childhood here.
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 ...
The building was constructed between 1836 and 1847, intended to become the palace of King Otto, following the transfer of the state’s capital from Nafplio to Athens in 1834. It was erected at the expense of King Ludwig I of Bavaria , as a personal loan to Otto.
For a long time, the palace was the favourite summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria. King Max I Joseph died there in 1825 [3] and his great-grandson King Ludwig II was born there in 1845. [4] In 1863, the only meeting between Ludwig and Otto von Bismarck was held in Nymphenburg, although they remained connected in a lifelong friendship.
The old castle was built from 1715 on the order of Margrave Georg Wilhelm as a summer house. [2] The architect was probably the agricultural inspector Johann David Räntz the Elder, a student of Paul Decker. Supervising construction fell to Johann Heinrich Endrich, who later built his own dwelling on the edge of the park (later known as ...
The castle dungeon was a wooden raft at the bottom of a well. Prisoners were lowered by rope and would remain there until a ransom was paid. [4] [6] In 1339, Ludwig gifted the castle to Count Rudolph II of the Electorate of the Palatinate, his nephew. [8] According to a decree of 1473 [which?], the castle saw use as a prison and court. [9]
King Ludwig enjoyed living in Hohenschwangau, however mostly in the absence of his disliked mother, especially after 1869 when the building of his own castle, Neuschwanstein, began on the site of the old Schwangau fortress, high above his parents' castle. Schloss Hohenschwangau. After Ludwig's death in 1886, Queen Marie was the castle's only ...