4072 x 2550 px | 34,5 x 21,6 cm | 13,6 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
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18. Januar 2012
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Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and extensive borrowing, not with Bavarian public funds The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then over 60 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with up to 6, 000 per day in the summer The palace has appeared prominently in several movies and was the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle] and later, similar structures.In 1868, the ruins of the medieval twin castles were demolished completely; the remains of the old keep were blown up.[26] The foundation stone for the Palace was laid on September 5, 1869; in 1872 its cellar was completed and in 1876, everything up to the first floor, but the Gatehouse was finished first. At the end of the year 1882 it was completed and fully furnished, allowing Ludwig to take provisional lodgings there and observe the further construction work.] In 1874, direction of the civil works passed from Eduard Riedel to Georg von Dollmann.[27] The topping out ceremony for the Palas was in 1880, and in 1884, the king could move into the new building. In the same year the direction of the project passed to Julius Hofmann, after Dollmann had fallen from the King's favor.The palace was erected as a conventional brick construction and later encased with other types of rock. The white limestone used for the fronts came from a nearby quarry The sandstone bricks for the portals and bay windows came from Schlaitdorf in Württemberg.
