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"Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn],
English: "New Swanstone
Castle"[1]) is a
nineteenth-centuryRomanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangaunear Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany.
The palace was commissioned byLudwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner.
Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of
extensive borrowing, rather than 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
The municipality of Schwangau lies at an
elevation of 800 m (2,620 ft) at the south west border of the German
state of Bavaria. Its surroundings are characterized by the
transition between the Alpine foothills in the
south (toward the nearby Austrian border) and a hilly landscape in the north
that appears flat by comparison.
In 1868, the ruins of the
medieval twin castles were completely demolished; 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, the
gatehouse being finished first. At the end of 1882 it was completed and fully
furnished, "
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