Berg Palace is a manor house situated on the east bank of Lake Starnberg in the village of Berg in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The site became widely known as the last residence of King Ludwig II of Bavar
Berg Palace as reconstructed after World War II to its 17th-century appearance, viewed from Lake Starnberg
Berg Palace on the banks of Lake Starnberg
The hunting lodge with a formal Baroque garden around 1700
Starnberg Castle and the fleet of magnificent ships, led by the Bucentaurus, a copy of the ship of the Doges of Venice (around 1700).
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. H
Berg Palace (Bavaria)
…The site became widely known as the last residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and location of his disputed death. Today, it serves as residence of Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of the house of Wittelsbach. The building was built in 1640 in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa by Hans Georg von Hörwarth on the site…
Duke Franz, painted by Dieter Stein in 1985
Franz von Bayern in the regalia of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Munich, 2012)