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it's packed with myths and desires. is it the work of a wasteful lunatic or the wondrous conception of it genius who has never understood is it a medieval castle or a modern construction. a console inseparable from the tragic fate of bavarian king moved to the 2nd. paragraph. in $869.00 the 1st story the slate ingenious divine or absolute church it's a phenomenon or the new that reaches around the world and yet it was built for one man alone you defeated the 2nd or the fairytale king as he is known to us today his legacy includes a castle and a myth. people call me

a fool. will god call me that too when i finally received his summons. the man who built it never had the pleasure of living in his finished promise the king died before it was completed and the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear to this day. his story has become judgement and his legacy lives on. our have the stories of knowing castle and the man who built it zadok the 2nd are so closely intertwined with a charter as to make them almost unique guy is 3 of culture it. is all began here in when she found out he'd fix father king maximillian the 2nd rebuilt a late medieval castle here turning it into a comfortable house the family often spent summers here. much to his

father's regret vic the 1st born son was holy and interested in politics. instead with his younger brother auto he preferred to explore the area around the alps seen in china sea legs as well as horn chunk down. in 1961 the bavarian puppy proof consummate through stock an interest film about the life and fate of luke vic the 2nd. here in all here on the top floor of hole in shango castle is where the early childhood of luke vague and his younger brother also unfolded on. the walls a decorated with scenes from medieval legend says it's all very cozy very romantic

all much. good think grew up surrounded by fan maidens dragons and heroes. his relationship to his father was a distant bond intrigue felt he was traced with condescension and he found that his mother lacked a poetic sensibility. at the age of 18 a prince or a big felt more was home in the world of legends than in the monday and real world . they're hopping off and because his father mocks a 1000000 the 2nd died suddenly and march 18th 64th. when your vision was shocked by the fact that he was to ascend to the throne automatically and that once the shootout we know that he left his father's death bed in floods of tears similar and he was even more shaken when a servant addressed him as your. majesty immediately after his father passed away.

no one had prepared him for this sudden ascension to the throne. 3 days after the funeral he wrote in his diary just one group feeling deep in time paying each. team. to took time to form bio pic the 2nd of a very f.l. and i'm sure at 1st to show. you months he was someone who lacked stability and a man who was unsuitable for his job asking truly the representative of the bavarian state autos for a common guy that. at least he had been tortured how to handle money the records of princeton thinks pocket money can be found in the archives of the house of little spock. in july 862 he spent a total of 9000 guilders and 48 crowns on the scene donations for the poor

chocolates and presents. the prince had to keep meticulous appearance of what he spent in trees sent them to his father this sort of thing that really gets you in his corner and it was meant to help the crown friends learn how to live frugally of course and you can see that for example when he wanted to go to the theater he would have to pay for it himself and as he put it even if his father's lessons on was looted big considered to be excessive frugality had a big impact on and i think it agreed after his father's death upon his coronation a loss i want no more of this on necessary miserliness i was that i will figure it unfortunately he didn't understand that even a king's resources are not endless that's how to live and it's beautiful. his majesty didn't learn much from his father's example. one of his 1st official acts was to invite the highly indebted composer he had wagner to munich and to finance him unconditionally. at. c.n.n.

countered wagner's musical dramas based on scenes that were very much inspired by them of the very tail world here and became an ardent fan of that music all of the guys that for this are music. so the maestro as he respectfully called the composer became one of the 1st people to learn of the king somewhat unusual plan in the area . he wrote to wagner i discovered the obscene i intend to build a new castle above the old castle ruins in holland by the pilot or in the true style of the castles built for ancient german lines arching atop article i. the 1st sketches surface a nice simple castle i. watched a noisy sun shine he commissioned a theatrical scene painter christiane young to do the initial design is at the

image quite naturally those designs were quite literally theatrical. in this water's. design fuses elements from medieval germany more of spain and the mystical world a freak out this works this is a hand in india it's also in direct challenge to his father's cosy home when she found out castle with the milton the bee to maya as their take and with scenes from historical picture books on the walls of world it was wanted something grand something divorced from the real world and on a monumental scale in one with all of a form. and he was to achieve it. an architectural dream come true. and then commissioned a toy to escape reality with construction planned to see. the municipal archives in force and harbor a small treasure a photographic treasure. these

photos languished in a drawer for 150 years. these are our family these photos taken at the start of the construction process have never been seen before as far as i know this in this is the very 1st time that there be shown. to say. they were part of the deceased's the state and donated to the archive the photographer who was looked think shraddha born in foose in an 1830 he was the 1st person to document noise from stein council this photo shows the remains of a medieval castle on the mountain ridge of the same for 2 astronomy less wherever you can see the main bridge which was built in $866.00 so i know exactly what it will do you work on the castle began in 869 so this photo must have been taken sometime between those years and of course that means that this is the oldest photo

by little fiction ardler in our collection hardly opposites. workable stopped a full career through my great grandfather actually worked on the noice bunch tynecastle building site so far and my grandfather would sometimes take in his lunch at the council of the mark and i think it was because he thought he might catch a glimpse of the king they're counted out in clinics if people were curious about the king he was not exactly shy but he rarely made public appearances or and when you were up at the construction site you might expect to see him some time on the way of cult. in the military and capital munich people were skeptical about the monarch zeal for building a council but not here in l.v. . it was all those years in fact no one criticised the construction of noise punch line. due to its high altitude this region is not very fertile so people didn't live a life of affluence here and a giant construction like noise punched on bed approximately

a 3rd of the population in houston and me it. was even possible to run into the king. gibson movie the were there are some stories like the one of him meeting a young cowherd who asked him the time. the boy had no clue who the stranger was then he said why do you need to know what time it is and the boy replied precociously well i have to take my cows for milking and i don't know when. he then told the boy the time and even asked for the name of the farm 2 days later a king servant rode up on a horse and handed the boy of bob watch on a chain so he could see the time himself and know when he should take the cows in can is really the coolest and there are a whole lot of stories at this personal levels of painting

a very different picture of the king and how he's depicted in munich comes on this field as this this is moving from the inside it was. there he was known as a spendthrift and the maverick but here in southern bavaria his subjects admired him as a monarch with a personal touch. the photographer who did shraddha made the most of the spectacular views in the area. almost $100.00 french a graphic plates a kept in a mean it's a poor times the frisson. air is sighing with his camera which was new technology at the time something that only had. just got going silly castle was built this show went to a farm where it was a big heavy camera this was no smarts for he dragged everything up the mountain and

that's why we have now got a graphics plate of photos and a lesson. today the wafer thin photographic plates a delicacy and irreplaceable every building phase was documented carefully for 17 he is that helps historians reconstruct the building process. the 1st the ancient ruins and the mountaintop to move from the site and you steam train was constantly at work. on. the. 2 digits while doing the 2nd was not just agreement he was a visionary to he had the will the imagination and of course the power and the resources to make this dream come true. the blueprint for

a mega sized project. it was impatient and for studious and he wanted the building to progress as quickly as possible when anything didn't go the way he wanted he would be extremely displeased those responsible would fall into the greatest describe. for tom from the top of the tower to the cellar for everything was not big the seconds work out so he dedicated himself to every detail and that if i was in a regular correspondence with the royal superintendent of construction and the architecture he'd take he always inspect the plans personally so he could decide how to forsee if to or what to change officer and nuns i in matters of government not think mostly how to bow to his ministers and except their advice. 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 roots train. and grit up to i don't think was

a difficult client at home he was constantly scrapping plans you know suddenly deciding rome should be different would be all newly built walls might have to be torn down goodness and. those people are surprised to learn that the council is built of bricks. and clad with rocks from italy if i quite. to fail is not involved 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 to 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. because the king was always impatient with the world cup they 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 all of it a little. 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 moma chord the ups and downs of the construction every day from the so. not. in 17500 vote. on the violence 100 on the 23rd of april at 6 o'clock

in the morning mr hare hauled from the foreman at the king's castle who works and haul it shrunk out and he took his own life with a bullet through his heart and in the eye and say had suffered a mental breakdown and is buried and by the hoffman home from pick up in. the foreman heinrich harold who laid the foundation stone of the castle on the 5th of september 869. some people saw this as the case of noise found. the giant truck jet down the mountain pushed those in charge to the limits. for you think the construction was in seat from reality ever since germany had had a cause of the bavarian tin had filled supply for us but he still had his world a fantasy. be a little boy and we all like to dream we all have ideas that will 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 may come true. if throne room takes you to the past. to the noble knights. the heroic battles. the hollow keane's. and everything under the watchful eye of divine guidance. the king rules by the grace of god. he sent him torn so are. we now in the throne room of the into which was sort of religious. it will be the 2nd and by all it's a space dedicated to kingship about this bill and well read as he was he designed

everything himself to the core of. this throne room came to symbolize the interviewers had monarch. no audiences were given here no court was held there isn't even a throne in the room the combination of splendor and solitude is particularly stark in this space. inertial enjoy time not everything is how it seems as side when you step out of the romero continuum i think the columns are made of spore for you but it's actually stuck on marble that was itself stuck on to cast iron columns oil and that was necessary for construction recently and. everything is fisher who. found 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 funston castle. the area is not open to the public. we have given no ones we are now above the throne room this is the dome a silver star. forcing construction is above is this technique was innovative at the time arctic golding with on land or with these large i and good is that we also

see downstairs in the throne room and the ones are lothian it was revolutionary at that time it when i got it for 2 on. the modern construction of i'm t. beings can be seen beneath the throne room. configured by the 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 quickly. thinking it was fascinated with technology and aware of the latest innovations in construction. sophisticated technologies from the age of industrialization can be found throughout the castle. to superior you know

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 life a stream based on the it was included here to meet the king's 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 it's another if you are. the boiler for the unfinished nightspot was installed it has never been in service . everything was the finest quality for the. who also closes. battery operation downs 18000 pounds a brand new item in the collection telephone was the entire construction

tailor made for one man and that. was that ingenious was simply crazy and for work we think of a mad man as someone who has no idea what he's doing just suits and look 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 all that was coherent in itself was often but that world was not meant to be open to others so if. the price was loneliness. is big chain because your way to the tragic love story is just an innocent.

his wash basin reminds you of that too smoove front the cup that his cheeks brushed a communion challenge. this is imposing as the choir stalls in a cool thing changing. them and do it when you walk around the noise time you realize very quickly that it was not built for practical purposes this could come because there are no guest rooms to focus as you noticed straight away that this is a fantasy made real to me of it's more like walking through a film so that you realize you're not in the house you're in a dream of the scene and call. searching for the holy grail. alongside the none of this will.

respond because buildings are unique and that they're not about showing off prestigious dynastic functions heaver divestiture rather they were spaces where he turned his poetic world and his world imbued with literary arianne trickle influences and to architectural reality there's nothing like this anywhere else on this. stalley tight grosso in the middle of the console belongs in that well to. a secret door leads to a staircase which is normally hidden from view. it was built especially for the service teams. through of the stairs take you from the access road all the way to below the rafters because that means they run through the whole

building you can see that the stairs are relatively wide and well equipped so the servants could do their work properly has to do you know. this was because the king insisted on fast and discreet service the monarch's behavior was starting to become increasingly won't he was true indian self the entire council is laced with staircases big and small riddled with hidden door was. cool. this seen as whole. gate this is the 1st extensive restoration that since it was built x. . it's in the order of stone and paintings have been at work throughout the castle for several years was. a.

nag hell. bent. as this is part of us what's so special about the paintings here in his 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 it is why the explosion location and the high volume of visitors was torm he she hadn't been doxie getting sent. to seek new civil artists personally. exquisite craftmanship was always more important to him than an artist suneet signature or style. played my suit into something if it's what i want 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 have a chat with the foreman for example the hobbit handouts a gas to gotten for 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 a lot feel. the king must have made a lot of cigars because he had other construction projects to my car in chains in the palace is modeled on for someone in france i was. really into her palace in the mountains near et al is built in the star of a french summer residence. on castle is almost to the german middle ages and the world of germany pledge and. expensive dreams of a keen resolve to build a rumor that will probably never die is that look big the 2nd bankrupted the state

treasury 5 building noise that's completely wrong by law he received a sum of money annually which he used to pay for the quarterly the maintenance of other castles divorce was numb from borg and many others who would spoil the step had to be paid for the court theatre had to be paid for the mutable and at the very bottom of the list whatever was left he used that for his own building projects such as on of our congress to act. fixed it with private from 871 on was he received a yearly sum of 300000 monks and oppression mr president bismarck taken from so-called reptilian phones all slush funds. it was a little thank you gift for handing of the title of cons to we human of trash and also a niche to 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 risk direction of his powers in trend he could well be given a little financial benefit that 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 on nutrition good big clearly said and also wrote i can't escape building is my greatest joy in life and i hoped laban sats how he put it formally on undeterred he continued to order chandeliers with exquisite nickel placing furniture and sculptures to bills show his obsession with details. on cost approximately 6000000 mugs that sequent of about 42 maybe he knew as today. he will also take in loans from foreign banks which was a big mistake on those foreign banks who are not obliged to be loyal subjects to. and so they insistently pressed the repayment they even threaten to seize his properties size this come to printer was thrown on. the building

works had to be halted time and again much to the king's shall ground. in the middle of the council courtyard the outlines of some foundation walls tell us about new things a regional vision for the construction. the plan via the plan was to build a castle keep here right where we're standing nose at which would be noise at lunchtimes tallest tower by far not the middle or the lit was modeled in the medieval fashioned it would have housed the castle chapel on the ground floor and above it would be a keep about 45 meters high it were from a viewer to me the whole get off the back with. that would make a total height of $980.00 s. the last bastion for the keen. his inspiration came from a set designed for record fog across a lone creating. 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 was no other way to put it. castle is like a torso rather than a whole body it doesn't look the way look big the 2nd planned it for that's especially because the central deep is missing it has had his get would have completely changed the entire look of the castle hoot for in that. speech and 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 been caught in 1905 it finally became clear to ludwig's minister. is that something had to be done to cut his majesty simply refused to take their advice resist. the claims for

payment overwhelming the king whose bankrupt painters brick layers and guild is no longer receive their money. the debt soon totaled 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 made it. a monarch is supposed to hold office for life unless he's certified as insane as an ancient some of the guys think views on ludvig 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. this day june 10th

886 a government commission from munich of arrived at the castle to remove the king from power. but instead the monarch took the men into custody. 2 days later. the 2nd finally accepted his fate. and my store majesty this is the on happy a 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 because we are taking you to bear castle on lake stanback. the last acts of the tragedy. the king was taken away. he would never sit 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 shitstorm it seems tossed in demat.

you think it was placed under house arrest at least on bag. no one knows what really happened. conspiracy theories abound one plausible sequence of events is that you'd feed went into the water talked to fun couldn't tried to help and they both drowned when the desperate fool making began to struggle with his would be rescuer king would leave the 2nd was just 40 years old when he died. it was a shock to everyone. was that an accident suicide or murder. a mistake was born as any attempt to explain the dead invites a new theory. to our 3 stay in lost and used to swim there across the aisle to say

to them at the end it's 4 kilometers long and see as the king was a very very good swimmer back or the curious that he drowned. curious. ditching simply trapped. in al gore hardly anyone can or wants to believe that the king died of natural causes. as he's wise woman and 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 and in fact everyone believed he had withdrawn to a mountain hut somewhere and it's all because ludwig was just 40 years old when he died given. it was unimaginable that a man so young would just die. if.

that's right the indian sikh economies going into the lake was an escape for losing i know an escape from an unbearable situation namely 1000 inflows patrick by that i mean his detainment in the bag 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. and 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. bluefins younger brother also displayed abnormal behavior from early childhood and was diagnosed as mentally ill. was locked up from the age of 23. today it's issues he's suffered from psychosis resulting from schizophrenia.

and so his leaving rather would be things why such a life was certainly unbearable for load big and he wanted to escape it and 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 the whole philosophy. he left behind both apostle and a dream no more realized in bricks in war time. was. in the following decades to reason flourished and noise from. this is the 1st colorful teach dancing from the 1930 s. the council is the focus of tuesday's cameras. at all fittler visited noise fudge

tynecastle in early 1933 on the 50th anniversary of recount fatness death records by white by chance ludwig the 2nd had something in common with hitler would have a great admiration for wagner that's had a pretty offices naturally led to hitler's own interest in this castle to oversee of time. but he wanted to be the greatest master builder of all times himself rather than standing in the king's shadow here and visited the castle once. for detox and i was annoyed don was in fact a problem for the nazis because of the man who. commission down. and in the thirty's and forty's who had stood with the 2nd was still known as a mad kangaroo fits 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 from strands remote location. this made it safe from a brain no one was living there and the council had a lot of space. ringback ringback to think for had new should. ringback come soon 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 when our strong store noise was the largest and storehouse of them all because it's well known that the so-called rothschild treasures were kept and noise francia donald ward of. april 19th 45. american troops reach noise french tynecastle. the so-called monuments men confiscated the loot taken from france by the nazis during the occupation troops of school shoes 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 lucre admits 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. was able to present itself as an untouched treasure untaet gave a boost to terrorism to his most potent noise from stein became the symbol of a different germany will disney took inspiration here for his famous fairy tale castle. soon the council was on the list of must see attractions the u.s. military stationed in germany. that south photographs of the bavarian dream found

their way into the living rooms of many americans. to swallow this for of that is if until 30 or 40 years ago bunched on was dismissed as kitsch as well so those but actually no one from this area visited knowledge on china's luncheon because it was just kitchens and it most cheap go when a relative was visiting and you'd have to pay a courtesy visit to flee kids who he knows wants them on. the guest list for such courtesy visits includes former us 1st lady barbara bush. the queen thailand. and former soviet president mikhail gorbachev. name game. every year one and a half 1000000 visitors from all around the world come here to be enchanted by the costumes magic. those who do are rewarded with press taking images from

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