who knows Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria?

[Zebra]

Built by King Ludwig

Today it has been elected as world heritage!

about time, too!

 

[DonGlock26]

 

[Zebra]

DonGlock26

you have been to Neuschwanstein as well!

 

[Darkwind]

Cool looking Castle.

 

[DonGlock26]

DonGlock26

you have been to Neuschwanstein as well!

Alas nein.

 

[Zebra]

the Schuhplattler

 

[Zebra]

Cool looking Castle.

ein Märchenschloss ..... a fairy tale castle

 

[toobfreak]

Built by King Ludwig. Today it has been elected as world heritage!

Good ol' Neuschwanstein Castle.

I never heard of it.

Though Bavaria (southernmost Germany) sounds like a place I'd like to visit.

Castles hearken back to a time before gunpowder was discovered. After the invention of the cannon, castles became somewhat archaic. But castles in prime locations was where the Nobles lived, they held the best locations and everyone else around them in the community was considered property.

Society was based on kings and a whole family of nobles from Dukes, Princes, Barons, etc., to Knights and other classes. Then finally, there were the common people, the peasants, the servants, who lived to service the local nobility.

That all pretty much went out with the death of Prussia.

 

[GLASNOST]

who knows Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria?​

I have been there.

 

[zaangalewa]

I have been there.

Good grief. Putinist attack on Neuschwanstein Castle. We need more and better crossbow bolts.

I made by the way one of the most nice experiences with Neuschwanstein which, unfortunately, cannot be repeated:

We made an extended bicycle tour through Bavaria and Austria when we had been about 18 years old. And on this tour we often started very early in the morning and later we made breakfast after we bought some food in bakeries and butcher's shops on the route. Today was a very foggy day and we rested at a little bridge. The fog slowly lifted as we ate and while this happened I saw something ... floating. In the receding fog, a miraculous ... Something ... a castle ... became clearer and clearer and landed softly and gently in the mountains. It was Ludwig's fairytale castle. A marvellous and uplifting sight. And then someone shouted: "Guys, do you actually know where we are? At Neuschwanstein!"

 

[JLW]

I’ve been there. I remember being told they used some kind of heating system or something invented by Leonardo Da Vinci.

 

[Zebra]

I’ve been there. I remember being told they used some kind of heating system or something invented by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Ludwig the Second saw to that

 

[GLASNOST]

Ludwig the Second saw to that

... and was as queer as Rudolf Nureyev - "not that there's anything wrong with that."

 

[zaangalewa]

... and was as queer as Rudolf Nureyev - "not that there's anything wrong with that."

King Ludwig was a very wise man. And a very great man. What he hated was war, Putinist. King Ludwig was close to nature and freedom-loving.



Dort oben auf freier Bergeshöhe ist die Seele dem Schöpfer näher. Schöner und erhabener ist es da als im Qualm der Städte, wo die wahren Freuden ihren Sitz nicht haben.
The fairytale king Ludwig II
The soul is closer to the Creator up there on free mountain heights. It is more beautiful and sublime there than in the smoke of the cities, where true joys do not reside.

 

[Zebra]

Good grief. Putinist attack on Neuschwanstein Castle. We need more and better crossbow bolts.

I made by the way one of the most nice experiences with Neuschwanstein which, unfortunately, cannot be repeated:

We made an extended bicycle tour through Bavaria and Austria when we had been about 18 years old. And on this tour we often started very early in the morning and later we made breakfast after we bought some food in bakeries and butcher's shops on the route. Today was a very foggy day and we rested at a little bridge. The fog slowly lifted as we ate and while this happened I saw something ... floating. In the receding fog, a miraculous ... Something ... a castle ... became clearer and clearer and landed softly and gently in the mountains. It was Ludwig's fairytale castle. A marvellous and uplifting sight. And then someone shouted: "Guys, do you actually know where we are? At Neuschwanstein!"

nice picture!

 

[Zebra]

... and was as queer as Rudolf Nureyev - "not that there's anything wrong with that."

he was ....