One of the most visited places of interest in Germany, incomparable beauty of the mountains and human imagination.
Neuschwanstein Castle ("New Swanstone Castle") was built in the ХІХ century in the South of Bavaria, not far from austria-german border. The name of the castle is justified because one can find both swans and stones here. But let's go through it all point by point.
You need to take a train from Munich going to the South, to the Alps, to get to the Neuschwanstein Castle. All along the way you will see beautiful views and furthermore the weather can change radically. As for example it can start snowing in the end of April, when in 100 km to the north from you people have probably already forgotten what does winter look like.
We arrived Füssen, a typical bavarian town...and you see dozens of Chinese and Japanese getting out of the train with you and getting in the bus after bus driver's phrase "Yes, yes, to the castle!".
The castle was built in 1869-1883 at the order of the King Ludwig ІІ of Bavaria. By the way, he built 4 beautiful castles and the embezzlement of money was one of the reasons of his removal from power. The King had a lot of projects, 14 millions marks in dept and demanded even more loans from all european countries. That led to political conflict between the King and the Government. Finally he was declared "helplessly insane" and his uncle Prince Luitpold became a Prince Regent of Bavaria.
You can get to the castle in such cart or on foot (it takes usually 20-30 minutes).
On the way to the castle you will see a stream. Somebody shouted in the near of it "Let's swim!"
The castle belonged to the House of Wittelsbach to the 1926, who runned Bavaria from 1806 till the end of the World War I.
Ludwig II of Bavaria spent a quarter of his time in this castle after it had been built.
The castle is one of those who inspirated the design of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Marienbrücke("Brücke" - bridge) got its name after prussian Princess Mary, the wife of the King of Bavaria Maximilian II.
There is a river - Pöllat - flowing under the bridge, that is why the bridge is sometimes called as Pöllatbrücke instead of Marienbrücke.
During the World War II there was the gold of Reichsbank held in the castle together with the pieces of art that were stolen by nazis. The gold was taken out of the castle to an undisclosed location. But there is a version that it was sunk in the nearest lake.
There is an other castle near Neuschwanstein - Hohenschwangau. This castle has been built by the father of Ludwig II of Bavaria - Maximilian II.
Alpsee lake. The territory 50 meters behind the lake belongs to Austria. Two mountain peaks on the picture hidden in the clouds are austrian territory.
You can just go for a walk and cross the austrian-german border not noticing it at all.
That is how the design of the Neuschwanstein castle looked in the year 1869.
And that is how the castle looks like today.
The swans are looking at the austrian coast.
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