Neuschwanstein Castle,the castle of the fairy-tale king Ludwig II. In stone of the ideal fantasy world which the king built as a refuge from reality.

The political reason for building is: in 1866 Bavaria, allied with Austria, had lost a war against the expanding Prussia. Bavaria was forced to accept a "defensive and offensive alliance", which removed the king's right to dispose over his army in case of war. From 1866, therefore, Ludwig II was no longer a sovereign ruler. This limitation was the biggest misfortune of his ... (more)