"Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein Castles" Top 5 Page for this destination Hohenschwangau by Beograd

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I could've made two separate pages about these two castels but they complement each other and I don't think they should be separated in any way. The one that you can see on this picture is "Neuscwanstein" castel made after idea of King Ludwig II.
These castles are situated in beautiful area of Allgeu. I strongly recomand a visit to this area. It is beautiful, peaceful, close to one of the most interesting sites in Germany, in winter gives great skiing and rest of the year is a good hiking place. What more do you need?

King Ludwig II

King Ludwig II was older son of King Maximilian II of Bavaria and Queen Marie of Prussia. He had a strong connection with french Dynasty of Bourbon: he was born on the name day of King Louis IX, cannonized king who was the founder of Hous of Bourbon. Ludwigs granfather Ludwig I was also his godfather, whose godfather was Louis XVI. This whole connection had great influence on life of King Ludwig II.
As a child, young prince Ludwig had his first encounter with the legend of "Lohengrin" through Wagners scene peace of the same name. Ever since, Ludwig was a great admiror of Wagner, whome he financially supported untill composers death.
Ludwig came in power in 1864, after his Fathers death. At the age of 18 and growing up mainly in Hohenschwangau, isolated and lonely, he was extremly young and unprepared for the hard task that was ahead of him. He had extremly vivid imagination to which he "retreated" after a conflict with Munich court. This imagination of his gave us castles like Neuschwangau, Herrenchimsee and Linderhof.
On 9th June 1886, a State Commission came to Hohenschwangau to remove King Ludwig II. He was to be declared insane. days later, King made his last journey to Castle Berg to be found dead on 13th of June in Starnberger Lake. The court psychiatrist was also found drowned with the King. To this day it remains a mystery what exactly happened. Believs are contardictory. I personaly don't think it's much of a mystery. He wanted strong and independent Bavaria and the rest of the German states wanted it with united with them percisly for being strong and rather wealthy!

IMPORTANT

Interior photographs of both castles on this page are borrowed from official sites because taking pictures on the site is FORBIDEN, pretty much like in any other museum or similar site.


www.hohenschwangau.de
www.neuschwanstein.de

Pros and Cons
  • Pros:Castles, surroundings, peaceful and active holidays in one place
  • Cons:Very difficult for disabled to reach castles, lousy tours!
  • In a nutshell:Definatly beautiful and worth visiting! I'll return!
  • Last visit to Hohenschwangau: Apr 2006
  • Intro Updated Apr 16, 2006
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  • viddra's Profile Photo
    Jun 18, 2006 at 2:07 PM

    Kao i uvek, saveti su ti odlicni...Zaista sam uzivala u ovom virtualnom obilasku. Hvala, Dragana

  • Fen's Profile Photo
    Apr 26, 2006 at 10:49 AM

    HI Nina, Thank you for sharing this lovely page with us. I would love to visit Neuschwanstein Castle someday. Lovely page ~Fen

  • Kuznetsov_Sergey's Profile Photo
    Apr 24, 2006 at 8:05 AM

    Thank you, Nina for the sharing Hohenshwangau impressions. In our opinion it is one of the most beautiful places on earth! We are going to visit it for the third time since 2004...

  • JLBG's Profile Photo
    Apr 21, 2006 at 10:38 PM

    I was once in Neuschwanstein Castle and enjoyed it a lot. We were lucky to find it without any crowd (off season, week day). I like very much your page and the tune of your tips.

  • RhineRoll's Profile Photo
    Apr 18, 2006 at 3:51 AM

    Very good pages -- Hohenschwangau pretty much files under "tourist trap" if you ask me -- I very much liked the village of Schwangau though!

  • bijo69's Profile Photo
    Apr 17, 2006 at 10:26 AM

    Beautiful page! I must admit...I hardly know the Southern part of Germany...

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