February 25, 2016 at 9:32 am

Picture of the Day: Neuschwanstein Castle circa 1900, 10 Years After It Was Built

by twistedsifter

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Photograph via Library of Congress

 

Seen above is a photochrom print of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany; taken as few as ten years after the completion of the castle.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-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 as an homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.

The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer. [source]

 

 

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