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The German Fairy Tale Route [1] (German: Deutsche Märchenstraße) is a tourist attraction in Germany originally established in 1975. With a length of 600 kilometres (370 mi), [ 2 ] the route runs from Hanau in central Germany to Bremen in the north.
"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]
According to folklore a fairy path (or 'passage', 'avenue', or 'pass') is a route taken by fairies usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as fairy forts or raths (a class of circular earthwork dating from the Iron Age), "airy" (eerie) mountains and hills, thorn bushes, springs, lakes, rock outcrops, and Stone Age monuments.
In 2007, ownership was transferred to the Bas-Rhin département. [1] Today, it is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the region. For many years it was considered fashionable in France to sneer at the castle because of its links to the German emperor. Many considered it to be nothing more than a fairy tale castle similar to ...
Map of the Castle Road Route marker. The Castle Road (German: Burgenstraße) is a theme route in southern Germany (in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) and a small portion in the Czech Republic, between Mannheim and Prague. It was established in 1954. In 1994 it was possible to extend it to Prague.
The end of King's Castle Land. The park itself closed in September 1994, the victim of a poor economy, bad summer weather, rising liability insurance costs and the Whitneys' desire to retire.
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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.