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Although Linderhof is much smaller than Versailles, it is evident that the palace of the French Sun-King Louis XIV (who was an idol for Ludwig) was its inspiration. The staircase, for example, is a reduction of the famous Ambassador's staircase in Versailles, which would be copied in full in Herrenchiemsee, another palace project by Ludwig that was designed less as a residential building than ...
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria.
A possible building site was chosen in the Graswang valley near Ettal, the later site of Linderhof Palace. The garden façade. After several revisions, Dollmann's designs for a former pavilion resembling Grand Trianon or the Château de Marly had grown to a large palace, including a copy of the Versailles Hall of Mirrors.
Nicknamed the "fairy-tale king", the politically powerless Ludwig II wanted to recreate places from far away or from distant past. The Neuschwanstein castle (pictured) was inspired by the operas of Richard Wagner, the Herrenchiemsee by Versailles, and the Linderhof Palace both by Oriental buildings and by the world of Wagner. All three ...
Famous Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps. Herrenchiemsee, palace built by Ludwig II of Bavaria; Linderhof Palace, palace built by Ludwig II of Bavaria; Neuschwanstein, palace built by Ludwig II of Bavaria; Ansbach Residence, Ansbach, residence of the margraves of Ansbach; Seehof Palace, Memmelsdorf
14 villas and palaces including Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace, Herrenchiemsee; 10 fortified sites including medieval Nuremberg Castle; memorials such as the Befreiungshalle in Kelheim and the Ruhmeshalle and Feldherrnhalle in Munich; the pilgrimage church St. Bartholomew's in Berchtesgaden