jan 1, 1402 - Neuschwanstein Castle
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Neuschwanstein Castle
Schloss Neuschwanstein
Location Hohenschwangau, Germany
Construction started 5 September 1869
Completed c. 1886 (opened)
Owner Bavarian Palace Department
Design and construction
Architect Eduard Riedel
Civil engineer Eduard Riedel, Georg von Dollmann, Julius Hofmann
Other designers Ludwig II, Christian Jank
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn], Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.
The castle was intended as a home for the king, until he died in 1886. It was open to the public shortly after his death.
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