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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 ...
Neuschwanstein front façade and surroundings (photochrom print, c. 1900) A 1901 postcard of Berg Castle. At the time of King Ludwig's death, the palace was far from complete. The external structures of the Gatehouse and the Palas were mostly finished but the Rectangular Tower was still scaffolded.
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 ...
Ludwig only had an opportunity to stay at the Palace for a few days in September 1885, with a handful of rooms richly decorated and the unfinished parts covered by colorful canvasses. After the king's death in the following year, all construction work was discontinued. During the period between 1863 and 1886, 16,579,674 Marks [1] were spent.
Ludwig II King of Bavaria r. 1864–1886 "the Swan King" or "der Märchenkönig" (1845-1886) Otto I (VIII) King of Bavaria r. 1886–1913 deposed (1848–1916) Ludwig III Prince Regent, r. 1912–1913 King of Bavaria r. 1913–1918 abd. in pretence 1918–1921 (1845–1921) Maria Theresa of Austria-Este 1849–1919: Leopold, Fld. Mar. (1846 ...
The German King Otto I reasserted central authority, banishing Arnulf's son Eberhard and re-granting the title to Berthold, a younger son of Luitpold. Henry I: Duke of Bavaria: 947: 955: Ottonian: Son of Henry the Fowler. On Berthold's death, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, gave the duchy to his own brother Henry (I), who was also Arnulf the Bad's ...
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.
After Bavaria's entry into the empire, Ludwig II became increasingly detached from Bavaria's political affairs and spent vast amounts of money on personal projects, such as the construction of a number of fairytale castles and palaces, the most famous being the Wagnerian-style Neuschwanstein Castle. Ludwig used his personal wealth to finance ...