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Thursday 10 January 2013

The Castle of Neuschwanstein

By Mariel Wozney


The Neuschwanstein castle is basically a Romanesque castle located in Fussen, in the south west part of Bavaria in Germany. The actual castle was initially run by King Ludwig II and it was used as a retreat as well as a homage for Richard Wagner and actually many locations inside the castle have been influenced by Wagner himself, especially the singers room which could be found on the third floor level and also features paintings of different people coming from some of Wagner's operas.

The outside area of this particular castle has a gatehouse, which includes 2 watch towers. The gatehouse of the castle's brings you through to the courtyard that features 2 levels and in addition the southern area of the castle's courtyard offers an incredible view of the mountain scenery. Close to the west part of the courtyard area there is an unfinished formation made of bricks that's designed to be a nice chapel but was not ever finished. The north part of the courtyard has got a 3 story building called "the knights house" which was utilized as service areas. The western part of the courtyard area showcases the "palas" which was a real hall which contain servants quarters and Ludwig's stateroom.

The inside of the castle was essentially designed to hold over two hundred rooms, but never was finished and basically only 15 rooms have been finished completely. This particular castle consists of the entry hall, where the flooring is covered in mettlach tiles and it's separated into 2 aisles. The main hall of the castle consists of groined vaults as well as lovely works of art. The throne room, which had been designed as the "grail hall" of Parsifal and was actually fashioned in a unique Byzantine design was finished in the year of the death of Ludwig. The throne room is in fact two storeys high but is missing the most essential portion of the whole room, and that is the throne. The dining area is also adorned with gorgeous artworks which generally represent the "Minnesinger period" and features a single dining room table which is about 1 metre high. The overall interior planning of the dining room was specially designed by Julius Hoffman.

The bed room was initially created in a Neo-Gothic kind of theme and actually took a total of four and a half years to finish and also had a total of fourteen wood carvers doing it. The bedroom has paintings in the walls which actually represent one of the stories of Wagner "Tristan and Isolde" and even a washstand that gets its water supply from the stream which is to be found above the castle.

The castle's chapel that's attached to the bedroom was actually made a a tribute to the French king, King Louis IX and also has beautiful paintings depicting the life of this king.

The castle's dressing room was made with oak paneling and also includes paintings representing the work of Walther von der Vogelweide and Hans Sachs. The living room area is extremely ornately adorned and also has an extra room or space generally known as the "swans corner" which was a tribute to the legend of the swan knight - Lohengrin. This particular castle showcased a synthetic stalactite cave that's created from paris and oakum plaster and was made as a space for Wagner to be able to conduct his very own operas which were set inside of a cave.

The singers hall is situated on the whole 4th floor of the castle structure and was also designed by Julius Hoffman and it is a reproduction of the Minstrell hall of the castle of Wartburg. The castle's kitchen was an especially spacious space which was supported by only two pillars and used a standing stove along with a big container for all the fish.

This castle remains to be standing up to this day and draws in guests globally to check out all its amazing features. The Neuschwanstein castle sees above 6,000 guests each and every day in the summertime and approximately one million site visitors every year.




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