Dream Castles 1913 (Princes of the North Book 5)

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Ludwig wished to introduce Munich theater-goers to the best of European drama. Between and , the King had private performances Separatvorstellungen given for himself alone or with a guest, in the two court theaters, comprising 44 operas 28 by Wagner, including eight of Parsifal , 11 ballets, and plays the principal theme being Bourbon France at a cost of 97, marks.

I want to look myself, not to be a spectacle for the masses. Ludwig used his personal fortune supplemented annually from by , marks from the Welfenfonds [23] to fund the construction of a series of elaborate castles. In his letters, Ludwig marvelled at how the French had magnificently built up and glorified their culture e. It became his dream to accomplish the same for Bavaria.

These projects provided employment for many hundreds of local laborers and artisans and brought a considerable flow of money to the relatively poor regions where his castles were built. Figures for the total costs between and for the building and equipping of each castle were published in In , Ludwig commissioned the first drawings for his buildings, starting with Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee , though work on the latter did not commence until Schloss Neuschwanstein "New Swan-Stone castle" is a dramatic Romanesque fortress with soaring fairy-tale towers.

Hohenschwangau was a medieval knights' castle which his parents had purchased. Ludwig reputedly had seen the location and conceived of building a castle there while still a boy. In , Ludwig oversaw the laying of the cornerstone for Schloss Neuschwanstein on a breathtaking mountaintop site.

In , construction was completed on Ludwig's Schloss Linderhof , an ornate palace in neo-French Rococo style, with handsome formal gardens. The grounds contained a Venus grotto lit by electricity, where Ludwig was rowed in a boat shaped like a shell. Hunding's Hut was destroyed in but a replica was constructed at Linderhof in In , Ludwig had Einsiedlei des Gurnemanz a small hermitage, as seen in the third act of Parsifal erected near Hunding's Hut, with a meadow of spring flowers.

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The king would retire to read. A replica made in can now be seen in the park at Linderhof. Nearby a Moroccan House, purchased at the Paris World Fair in , was erected alongside the mountain road. Sold in and taken to Oberammergau, it was purchased by the government in and re-erected in the park at Linderhof after extensive restoration. From Linderhof, Ludwig enjoyed moonlit sleigh rides in an elaborate eighteenth-century sleigh, complete with footmen in eighteenth century livery. In , construction began on Herrenchiemsee , a partial replica of the palace at Versailles, sited on the Herreninsel in the Chiemsee.

Only the central portion of the palace was built; all construction halted on Ludwig's death. The following year, Ludwig finished the construction of the royal apartment in the Residenz Palace in Munich, to which he had added an opulent conservatory or winter garden on the palace roof. It was started in as quite a small structure, but after extensions in and , the dimensions reached It featured an ornamental lake complete with skiff, a painted panorama of the Himalayas as a backdrop, an Indian fisher-hut of bamboo, a Moorish kiosk, and an exotic tent.

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The roof was a technically advanced metal and glass construction. The winter garden was closed in June , partly dismantled the following year and demolished in Ludwig also proposed a Byzantine palace in the Graswangtal, and a Chinese summer palace by the Plansee in Tyrol. These projects never got beyond initial plans. For Berg Castle , Ludwig had a fifth tower constructed for it called "Isolde" and used the castle frequently as his summer residence.

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When Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia visited Berg in , he had the castle magnificently decorated for the duration of her stay there; the castle otherwise, by his standards, was modestly furnished. Although the king had paid for his pet projects out of his own funds and not the state coffers, that did not necessarily spare Bavaria from financial fallout. He demanded that loans be sought from all of Europe's royalty, and remained aloof from matters of state. Feeling harassed and irritated by his ministers, he considered dismissing the entire cabinet and replacing them with fresh faces.

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The cabinet decided to act first. Seeking a cause to depose Ludwig by constitutional means, the rebelling ministers decided on the rationale that he was mentally ill, and unable to rule. They asked Ludwig's uncle, Prince Luitpold , to step into the royal vacancy once Ludwig was deposed. Luitpold agreed, on condition the conspirators produced reliable proof that the king was in fact helplessly insane.

Most of the details in the report were compiled by Maximilian Count von Holnstein, who was disillusioned with Ludwig and actively sought his downfall. Holnstein used bribery and his high rank to extract a long list of complaints, accounts, and gossip about Ludwig from among the king's servants. The litany of supposed bizarre behavior included his pathological shyness, his avoidance of state business, his complex and expensive flights of fancy, dining out of doors in cold weather and wearing heavy overcoats in summer, sloppy and childish table manners; dispatching servants on lengthy and expensive voyages to research architectural details in foreign lands; and abusive, violent threats to his servants.

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The degree to which these accusations were accurate may never be known. The conspirators approached Bismarck, who doubted the report's veracity, calling it "rakings from the King's wastepaper-basket and cupboards. In early June, the report was finalized and signed by a panel of four psychiatrists: Bernhard von Gudden , chief of the Munich Asylum; Dr. Hubert von Grashey who was Gudden's son-in-law ; and their colleagues, Dr.

Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen and Dr. The report declared in its final sentences that the king suffered from paranoia , and concluded, "Suffering from such a disorder, freedom of action can no longer be allowed and Your Majesty is declared incapable of ruling, which incapacity will be not only for a year's duration, but for the length of Your Majesty's life.

Adding to the controversy are the mysterious circumstances under which King Ludwig died. Today the claim of paranoia is not considered correct; Ludwig's behavior is rather interpreted as a schizotypal personality disorder and he may also have suffered from Pick's disease during his last years, an assumption supported by a frontotemporal lobar degeneration mentioned in the autopsy report.

Ludwig's younger only brother and successor, Otto , was considered insane, [38] providing a convenient basis for the claim of hereditary insanity. Tipped off an hour or two earlier by a faithful servant, his coachman Fritz Osterholzer, Ludwig ordered the local police to protect him, and the commissioners were turned back at the castle gate at gunpoint. Ludwig then had the commissioners arrested, but after holding them captive for several hours, released them.

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand was the only member of the Bavarian Royal Family who always remained on friendly terms with his cousin with the exception of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria , so Ludwig II wrote him a telegram; the latter immediately intended to follow this call, but was prevented from leaving Nymphenburg Palace by his uncle Luitpold who was about to take over government as the ruling Prince Regent.

The government succeeded in suppressing the statement by seizing most copies of the newspaper and handbills. Anton Sailer's pictorial biography of the King prints a photograph of this rare document. The authenticity of the Royal Proclamation is doubted however, as it is dated 9 June, before the Commission arrived, it uses "I" instead of the royal "We" and there are orthographic errors.

As the king dithered, his support waned. Peasants who rallied to his cause were dispersed, and the police who guarded his castle were replaced by a police detachment of 36 men who sealed off all entrances to the castle. Eventually the king decided he would try to escape, but it was too late. In the early hours of 12 June, a second commission arrived. The King was seized just after midnight and at 4 am was taken to a waiting carriage. Gudden, "How can you declare me insane? After all, you have never seen or examined me before," only to be told that "it was unnecessary; the documentary evidence [the servants' reports] is very copious and completely substantiated.

On the afternoon of the next day, 13 June , Dr. Gudden accompanied Ludwig on a stroll in the grounds of Berg Castle. They were escorted by two attendants. On their return, Gudden expressed optimism to other doctors concerning the treatment of his royal patient. Gudden agreed; the walk may even have been his suggestion, and he told the aides not to join them. His words were ambiguous Es darf kein Pfleger mitgehen , "No attendant may come along" and whether they were meant to follow at a discreet distance is not clear.

The two men were last seen at about 6: After searches were made for more than two hours by the entire castle staff in a gale with heavy rain, at The King's watch had stopped at 6: Gendarmes patrolling the park had heard and seen nothing. Ludwig's death was officially ruled a suicide by drowning, but the official autopsy report indicated that no water was found in his lungs. Many hold that Ludwig was murdered by his enemies while attempting to escape from Berg. One account suggests that the king was shot. According to Lidl, he had hidden behind bushes with his boat, waiting to meet the king, in order to row him out into the lake, where loyalists were waiting to help him escape.

In his right hand he held a posy of white jasmine picked for him by his cousin the Empress Elisabeth of Austria. His heart, however, does not lie with the rest of his body. In Edward ordered the constable of the castle to give shelter to men fleeing from the Scots.

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There was an inquisition into the land at Lancaster in that stated "there is at Liverpull a certain Castle, the foss whereof and the herbage are worth by the year 2s. Sir Richard Molyneux was appointed constable of the castle in and the title was made hereditary five years later. The Great Tower had a slate roof and it was suggested to be used as storage for the court rolls. During the reign of Charles I the castle was seized by Lord Derby. Protestant supporters of William of Orange seized the castle in On 5 March [2] the burgesses obtained a lease for the castle and its site from the Crown for fifty years.

Lord Molyneux disputed this as he still claimed hereditary constableship. This delayed the settlement of the lease until , when the last remaining ruins of the castle were removed. Finally in an act was passed to demolish the castle and build a church in its place. Construction of St George's church began on the site of the old castle and the church was consecrated in By the church had been pulled down and a new one built in its place. In the church was demolished and the Victoria Monument was erected in In excavation of the south side of Castle Street was conducted before the construction of the Crown Courts building , which was built in the style of a castle.

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