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When King Ludwig II died he was living in Neuschwanstein. It was on it’s 14th year of construction. He was bankrupting Bavaria building Neuschwanstein and he died mysteriously in the lake the day after he was placed under house arrest and told him that they were going to hold formal proceedings to declare him mentally unfit. The day he died all work was stopped on the castle and although the throne room had been completed, the throne was never delivered.
Neuschwanstein was opened to the public as a museum 6 weeks after his death.
On the walk up to Neuschwanstein I stopped to get Mike and I a beer and a pretzel...
The above is actually a picture of a poster.
View of castle as you wall up the hill.
Front Entrance
In the courtyard.
This is the castle on which the Disney Land Castle was based. In the view in the picture to the left reminds me of the Disney Land Castle.
During World War II this area of Bavaria was destroyed by bombs but great care was taken not to destroy the castles. It would have been a shame if they had not been preserved. While Neuschwanstein is not as ornate as Linderhof, it was very lavish on the inside as well.
From Neuschwanstein you can easily see the Castle that King Ludwig grow up in when his father Maximilian II was the ruler of Bavaria.
Next stop the Hofbräu House ...
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