Neuschwanstein Castle
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Neuschwanstein Castle 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. It is located in the Swabia region
Neuschwanstein Castle in 2013, looking northeast
An eastward view over the village of Hohenschwangau and the Alpsee (Alp Lake) towards the Tyrolean Alps, with the two castles of Neuschwanstein (white; left) and Hohenschwangau (yellow; right). Also visible is the smaller Schwansee (Swan Lake), to the right.
Neuschwanstein project drawing (Christian Jank 1869)
Wagner and Ludwig II (by Kurt von Rozynski, 1890)
Hohenschwangau Castle
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Hohenschwangau Castle is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It is located
Neuschwanstein Castle
…in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the municipality of Schwangau, above the incorporated village of Hohenschwangau, which is also the location of Hohenschwangau Castle. The closest larger town is Füssen. The castle stands above the narrow gorge of the Pöllat stream, east of the Alpsee and Schwansee lakes, close to the…
Schloss Hohenschwangau 2021
Hohenschwangau Castle at night
Hohenschwangau Village (left), Schloss Hohenschwangau (right), as seen from Neuschwanstein Castle
The castle in 1701, prior to reconstruction