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Ludwig I or Louis I (German: Ludwig I.; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars. As king, he encouraged Bavaria's industrialization, initiating the Ludwig Canal between the rivers Main and the Danube.
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 ...
After Ludwig's death, there was much discussion about a mysterious seventeen-year-old man named Kaspar Hauser, who had appeared seemingly out of nowhere in 1828. Seventeen years previously, the first son of the future Grand Duke Karl and his French wife Stéphanie de Beauharnais died under what were later portrayed as mysterious circumstances.
Ludwig (German: Ludwig II.) is a 1973 English-language epic biographical drama film co-written and directed by Luchino Visconti.The film stars Helmut Berger as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, along with Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, and Gert Fröbe.
Curse of DarKastle gets its inspiration from King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who spent much of his family’s fortune on mysterious castles and art. His most noted structure is Neuschwanstein Castle, which DarKastle is loosely based on. He reigned from 1864 to his mysterious death in 1886.
Ludwig subsequently commissioned Stieler to supply many of the paintings for his Gallery of Beauties at the Nymphenburg Palace. [3] After succeeding his father Maximilian Joseph, Ludwig became the second king of Bavaria, then an independent state and a member of the German Confederation. He was known for his patronage or architecture and the arts.
Ludwig I's youth was marked by Napoleon's claims to power on the one hand and Austria's on the other; at the time, his family's House of Wittelsbach was a pawn between these two great powers. Until 1805, when Napoleon "liberated" Munich in the War of the Third Coalition and made Ludwig's father Maximilian king, Bavaria was repeatedly a theater ...
Louis I (German: Ludwig; 23 December 1173 – 15 September 1231), called the Kelheimer or of Kelheim, since he was born and died at Kelheim, [1] was the Duke of Bavaria from 1183 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1214.