yes. it was a kingdom in which he was really just a figurehead with very little to say but when it came to his building projects he root of supreme. grit up to i don't think was a difficult client or what he was constantly scrapping plans your suddenly deciding rome should be defragged but all newly built walls might have to be torn down goose and you. know those people are surprised to learn that the council is built of bricks. and clad with rocks for me if i quire in. the film is the mahler cliff face and the walls are made up of the same materials it's a very sophisticated construction built from materials that come from the local area and see if that's how it really organically blends in with the surrounding you'll

be able in food. not only the construction but also the restoration in the last few decades for a technical logistical and physical challenge. the the king was always impatient to the work up there couldn't progress fast enough for him it's understandable anyone who works in construction will get it you always want to see progress and it's always too slow as it was a challenge for everyone involved. including the local people at the time a chronicle written by the village teacher back then whose name was left is still preserved in this funk our archives the man recorded the ups and downs of.

construction every day from the start. in 1985 he wrote. on violence 100 on the 23rd of april at 6 o'clock in the morning mr to have hold of the foreman at the king's castle who works and how much stronger oh and he took his own life with a bullet through his heart and in the way he said he had suffered a mental breakdown and is buried and by the hoffman who from becoming. the foreman heinrich harold had laid the foundation stone of the council on the 5th of september $869.00. some people saw this as the case of noise from. the giant trajectory the mountain pushed those in charge to the limits . filtering the construction business scape from reality ever since germany had had a kaiser the bavarian tin had filled support for us but he still had his world

a fantasy. be a lukewarm gun and we all like to dream we all have ideas but also have the courage to realize them and in his case to fight against all odds for them those that shows he was lucky that that's what i like about immune system partition do. you think it made history and come true. in throne room takes you to the past. to the noble knights. the heroic battles. the hollow. and everything under the watchful eye of divine guidance. the king rule by the grace of god. is in him torn so are. we now. the throne room of the internet which was sort of religious

a little bit the 2nd and it's a space dedicated to kingship this bill and well read as he was he designed everything himself the war from. this throne room came to symbolize the intervention of monarch. no audiences were given here no court was held there isn't even a throne in the room the combination of splenda and sunny today is pretty chilly stark in the space. in our shot of noise feinstein not everything is how it seems a source inside when you step into the throne room can you might think the columns are made us porfirio but it's actually stuck on a marble wall that was itself stuck on to cast iron columns oil and that was necessary for construction recently and. everything is for show. much fun stein is the perfect symbiosis of the latest

technology and medieval statics the king's wishes challenge the creativity of the architects. the throne room is a modern construction. a masterpiece of engineering. the head of administration of the council johann hensel is giving us a peek behind the curtains of the mock middle ages the roof construction of noise from stein council. the area is not open to the public. we have different ones we are now above the throne room that says this is the dome

a self-supporting construction is it both ways it's technique was innovative at the time arctic gilding with the ion or with these large i and good is that we also see downstairs in the throne room and the ones are all so young it was revolutionary at that time it when i got it. a little on. the modern construction of i am team beings can be seen beneath the throne room. to pick a fight when it came to technology good big the 2nd was mainly interested in what you could do with this one for and his very high demands started on science driving it forward it was here to clean. the king that was fascinated with technology and away with the latest innovations in construction.

sophisticated technology from the age of industrialization can be found throughout the castle. consumed here in ireland we now in one of the boiler rooms for the warm and heating system which was cutting edge back then it was still extremely uncommon in buildings used mainly for private purposes or a castle like their symbols on them it was included here to meet the king special demands for luxury the 2nd wanted a comfortable version of the middle ages from his childhood on he had always had a low tolerance to cold and so a warm air heating system was ideal some of the roof of the art of. the boiler for the unfinished nights on earth was in store which has never been in service.

everything was the finest quality for the keen water closet. battery operated bills 18000 pounds a brand new item in the collection a telephone half the entire construction tailor made for one man. who is that ingenious most simply crazy and we think of a madman as someone who has no idea what he's doing it's like this 2nd knew what he was doing all the way. living in a world of his own closed off from anyone is a different story to big this 2nd created a world for himself that had a logic of its own no that was coherent in itself. but that world was not meant to be open to others so if when. the price was loneliness.

he's been chained to carrie's your way to the tragic love story tristen on his own . his wash basin reminds you of that too smoove front the cup that his tooth brush because. he's big this is imposing is the choir stools in a cool thing to. do is when you walk around noise fans time you realize very quickly that it was not built for practical purposes this could kind of there are no guest rooms to focus and you notice straight away that this is a fantasy made real it's more like walking through a film so that you realize you're not in the house you're in a dream in the snow and cold. searching for the holy grail.

alongside the numbers the school. buildings are unique and that they're not about showing off just dynastic functions he would not to shraddha as they were spaces. where he turned his poetic world and his world imbued with literary arianne trickle influences into architectural reality there's nothing like this anywhere else on this. style of tight grosso in the middle of the castle belongs in that world to. a secret door leads to a staircase which is normally hidden from view. it was built especially for the 7

streams. of the stairs take you from the access road all the way to below the rafters because boy that means they run through the whole building that's available you can see that the stairs are relatively wide and well equipped so the servants could do their work properly as they do you know. this was because the king insisted on fun lost in discrete service the monarchs behavior was starting to become increasingly awed he was true indian self and the entire castle is laced with staircases big and small brittle with hidden doors. in. this scene his whole. game this is the 1st extensive restoration work since it was built experts in

stone and paintings have been at work throughout the castle for several years. man. yeah. as a business what's so special about the paintings hearing is they are incredibly high quality of execution taped to my door and you can see that from the fact that they've scarcely been damaged despite exertional cation and the high volume of visitors to whom he she hadn't been getting sent. to see new civil artists personally. excuse across the ship was always more important to him than an artist's unique signature or style. played.

suit into something if it's wild and it was only for a total of about $200.00 days that he really lived in the castle at a time when the artist was still working up the wealth and he would show up now and then receive have a chat with the foreman for example their job and hand out cigars he gotten for that as it was standard back then well not when the monarch was satisfied with your work you get a cigar as a reward for life because of what. the king must have made a lot of cigars because he had other construction projects to. carry in choosing the palace is modeled on for something in france. was found. i am to the palace in the mountains near a town is built in the style of a french summer residence. which funston castle is his almost to the gentle middle ages and the world of germany pledge and expensive

dreams of a keen to build iron bar rumor that will probably never die is that ludwig the 2nd bankrupt of the state treasury 5 building noise that's completely wrong by law he received a sum of money and nothing which he used to pay for the court and. the make notes of other castles to vote a box numb from borg and many others who would spoil the stamp had to be paid for the court theatre had to be paid for the middle and at the very bottom of the list whatever was left he used that for his own building projects asika as one of our congress to act. fixed debts with private from 871 on was he received a yearly sum of 300000 motes of an impression mr president bismarck taken from so-called rich 2000000 phones or slush funds. it was a little thank you gift for handing of the title of kinds to william of prussia was a word mr this what's incorrect is to call it a bribe for i prefer to call it

a gift to him then when he had already given up some of his sovereignty and accepted this great personal restriction of his powers in trend he could well be given a little financial benefit of it often and saloon to be our mccoy. and yet even with his financial allowance from the north the king was still very short of money . his ministers i asked him to limit his building projects for nutrition had big clearly said and also wrote i can't discuss building is my greatest joy in life and i hoped laban sat's how he put it formally or undeterred he continued to order chandeliers with exquisite nickel placing furniture and sculptures the bills show his obsession with details. on cost approximately 6000000 marks that sequent of about 42000000 euros today. also taken loans from foreign banks which was a big mistake on those foreign banks were not obliged to be loyal subjects to him

and so they insistently pressed for repayment they even threaten to seize his properties size this come to print to storm. the building works had to be whole to time and again much to the king's sharp ground. in the middle of the council courtyard the outlines of some foundation walls tell us about luke biggs original vision for the construction. the plan was good plan was to build a castle keep here right where we're standing nose at which would be noisy lunchtimes tallest tower by far not the middle or the it was modeled in the medieval fashion it would have housed the castle chapel on the ground floor and above it would be a keep about 45 meters high it's often referred to me the whole get off the back foot. that would make a total height of $980.00 s.

the last bastion for the king. his inspiration came from a set design for record far across lone cream a fortified tower rising above everything else ideal in the middle ages for spotting approaching enemies but somewhat obsolete after the invention of the telephone because if there is no other way to put it. castle is like a torso rather than a whole body walls it doesn't look the way those make the 2nd planned it for that's especially because the central deep is missing and the set is good it would have completely changed the entire look at the castle hoot for in that. expression remained an unfulfilled dream. just on the moon by this time the 1st suits had begun to be filed against him by craftsmen who hadn't been paid and caught and $885.00 it finally became clear to

ludwig's ministers that something had to be done to cause majesty simply refused to take their advice was just. the claims for payment were overwhelming the king was bankrupt painters brick layers and builders no. longer receive their money. the debt soon to 100000000 euros in today's money you know how to swim and he got himself into a very difficult position personally because a king and that is also a problem for the state and probably in russia that. a monarch is supposed to hold office for life unless he certified as insane. as the ancient some of the guys think views on ludwig the 2nd state of mental health still differ greatly to this day when he was certainly very unusual and you can certainly say he was eccentric and in his later years he did suffer from let's say mental abnormalities in here as

it is a more recent theory speculates that he might even have had a neurological disorder some early signs of dementia. thursday june 10th 1886 a government commission from munich of arrived at the council to remove the king from power. but instead the monarch took the men into custody. 2 days later. the 2nd finally accepted his fate. most your majesty this is the unhappiest studio i have ever had to perform to you are hereby deposed for reasons of mental illness isis can i now ask you to follow me it is we are taking you to bear castle on lake stanback. the last act of the tragedy. the king was taken away. and would never set eyes on his castle again. declaring him of unsound mind was a legal gray area and that was clear to anyone there was no constitutional

provision for the ruler to be declared legally insane and dethroned but they did it anyway it's them it starts them grandma. you think was placed under house arrest at least on bank. no one knows what really happened. conspiracy theories abound one plausible sequence of events is that you'd think went into the water talked to fun couldn't tried to help and they both drowned when the desperate for making began to struggle with his would be rescuer king would lead the 2nd was just 40 years old when he died. it was. shock to everyone. was that an accident suicide illness. a missed was born

is any attempt to explain the dead invites a new theory. to our tourist in boston used to swim there across the alps a kilometer long it's 4 kilometers long and see as the king was a very very good swimmer mccurdy curious that he drowned. curious. the king simply trapped. in algal hardly anyone can or wants to believe that the king died of natural causes. as he was filming it could also you know i know from my grandfather he was 14 when ludwig died and he never believed the story that the king was murdered as this is an old family legend that the body in his coffin was a wax dummy of a very popular opinion throughout bavaria at the time that the most of by i think in fact everyone believed he had withdrawn to a mountain house somewhere and it's all good because ludwig was just 40 years old

when he died it was unimaginable that a man so young would just die for sure but does so in europe ensure if. those who still doesn't drink that's right the indian secret gunman he's going into the lake was an escape for losing i know if it menacing from an unbearable situation namely 1000 its influence batak by that i mean his detainment in the bag castle and the fact that he is a monarch who was incredibly conscious of his majesty suddenly had to obey the orders of doctors and nurses invent a thon. or the wife of a mentally ill person even under absolutely the best care was not unfamiliar to him . due to the fate of his brother who was clearly mentally ill and because the. younger brother who displayed abnormal behavior from early childhood and was diagnosed as mentally ill. from the age of 23.

today it's issue 2 suffered from psychosis resulting from schizophrenia. and so his leaving of it would be things by such a life was certainly unbearable for load vague and he wanted to escape it. whether he consciously intended to do so by means of suicide or he simply wanted to flee this place i'd say that's open to interpretation him a whole philosophy. he left behind both a puzzle and a dream no more realized in bricks in war time. in the following decades to reason flourished at noise from.

this is the 1st color for th day seen from the 1930 s. the console is the focus of 2 scammers. adolphine live is that it annoys french tynecastle in only 933 on the 50th anniversary of riccati fatness day really that's why white by chance ludwig the 2nd had something in common with hitler would have a great admiration for wagner that's a pretty off the face naturally led to hitler's own interest in this castle. but hitler wanted to be the greatest musta builder of all times himself rather than standing in the king's shadow he only visited the castle once. for the dots and i was annoyed don was in fact a problem for the nazis because of the man who commissioned. and in the thirty's and forty's stood like the 2nd was still known as a mad king sick of its with a not so great reputation involving home eroticism etc so good noirmont that didn't

. exactly fit in with the nazis ideology doing to its most hang ashamed. about something they didn't realize before the end of the 2nd world war is noise for instance remote location. this made it safe from a brain no one was living there and the council had a lot of space. ringback ringback for hiding who should. ringback come through doj the whole of southern germany was famous for its hiding places for looted art to be had reticular objects stolen by the nazis from france from paris with marsh launched on a noise was the largest and storehouse of them all because it's well known that the so-called rothschild treasures were kept and water. april 19th

45. american troops reach noise french town council. the so-called monuments men confiscated the new taken from france by the nazis during the occupation traits of scope choose jewelry and paintings the ids are only a few of the $23000.00 pieces of art found by the american troops here on the bottom. 600 crates of irreplaceable works was sent back to paris alone. come from nuclear of modest it's lucky the castle wasn't misused by the nazis for ideological purposes swan's and that means that after the end of the nazi dictatorship and the 2nd world war one sponsored dine was able to present itself as an untouched treasure and in time that gave a boost to terrorism and no strange time became the symbol of a different journey all disney to conspiration here for his famous fairy tale

castle. soon the council was on the list of must see attractions for u.s. military stationed in germany. that south photographs of the varian dream found their way into the living rooms of many americans. this wall is full of thoughts if until 30 or 40 years ago bunched on was dismissed as kitsch disposal those but actually no one from this area visited north ranch diners luncheon because it was just kitchen and at most to go when a relative was visiting and you'd have to pay a courtesy visit to flee cards because who he knows wants them on. the guest list for such courtesy visits includes former us 1st lady barbara bush. the queen of thailand. and former soviet president mikhail gorbachev. the aircraft. every

year one and a half 1000000 visitors from all around the world come here to be enchanted by the casals magic. those who do are rewarded with press taking images from another world. on board. there's one of nature's wonders and one of its mysteries they all i love the feet last feels obvious to some kind national park. every year in no hurry to return to the stock. why. researchers from germany are trying to find out.

nation of the food. it's 30 minutes on d w. story of producer and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied rhineland their father's soldiers from the french colonies. german children had a hard time because they were reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and content culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. bush documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the

children of change. starch january 11th on d. w. . this is you know the news live from berlin the european union rolls out its mass vaccination program i danced cove at 19 it's a shot of hope as a huge coordinated effort gets underway to start and uniting societies most vulnerable members. also on the program plastic sheeting and blankets are their only protection against the elements hundreds of migrants has spent a 4th night in freezing conditions in northwestern bosnia herzegovina aid groups

say people could die they don't get proper shelter and save.