In King Ludwig's plans the columns in the Knights' House gallery were held as tree trunks and the capitals as the corresponding crowns. [50] In its lower stories the Palas accommodates administrative and servants' rooms and the rooms of today's palace administration. Following Romanesque style, most window openings are fashioned as bi- and triforia. Until 1944, it served as a depot for Nazi plunder that was taken from France by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Institute for the Occupied Territories (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete), a suborganisation of the Nazi Party. [43], Due to its secluded location, the palace survived the destruction of two World Wars. Pic: Inside Neuschwainstein's Hall of Singers. Neuschwanstein Castle Inside View In Bavaria, Germany. Like most of the court buildings, it mostly serves a decorative purpose as part of the ensemble. [46] The plan was not realised by the SS-Gruppenführer who had been assigned the task, however, and at the end of the war the palace was surrendered undamaged to representatives of the Allied forces. The upper floor of the Gatehouse is surmounted by a crow-stepped gable and held King Ludwig II's first lodging at Neuschwanstein, from which he occasionally observed the building work before the hall was completed. Fourteen carvers worked more than four years on the bed canopy with its numerous pinnacles and on the oaken panellings. Neuschwanstein Castle Interior Image. The room looks the same today. The western end of the courtyard is delimited by the Palas (hall). Many of the interior rooms remain undecorated, with only 14 rooms finished before Ludwig's death. On the page "Building history" you will find a plan of the castle complex. [15] For technical reasons, the ruined castles could not be integrated into the plan. [23], The basic style was originally planned to be neo-Gothic but the palace was primarily built in Romanesque style in the end. [31] In the end, Ludwig II lived in the palace for a total of only 172 days. A flight of steps at the side gives access to the upper level. The former queen resided in Hohenschwangau Castle. King Ludwig II did not attach importance to representative requirements of former times, in which the life of a monarch was mostly public. It is designed as an amalgamation of two rooms of the Wartburg: The Hall of the Singers and the Ballroom. The heirs of construction casualties (30 cases are mentioned in the statistics) received a small pension. The palace complex is entered through the symmetrical Gatehouse flanked by two stair towers. The Throne Hall, 20 by 12 metres (66 by 39 ft),[55] is situated in the west wing of the Palas. [32], The King's wishes and demands expanded during the construction of Neuschwanstein, and so did the expenses. A massive keep, which would have formed the highest point and central focus of the ensemble, was planned for the middle of the upper courtyard but was never built, at the decision of the King's family. Neuschwanstein embodies both the contemporaneous architectural fashion known as castle romanticism (German: Burgenromantik), and King Ludwig II's enthusiasm for the operas of Richard Wagner. The ruins above the family palace were known to the crown prince from his excursions. To guarantee a smooth course of visits, some rooms and the court buildings were finished first. 6  Oratory [26] The topping out ceremony for the Palas was in 1880, and in 1884, the King was able to move in to the new building. Pic: The cavernous kitchen at Neuschwanstein Castle. The rooms on the second floor were never finished and today house a shop, a cafeteria and a multimedia room. The Palas is a colossal five-story structure in the shape of two huge cuboids that are connected in a flat angle and covered by two adjacent high gable roofs. Despite its size, Neuschwanstein did not have space for the royal court, but contained only the King's private lodging and servants' rooms. The castle has a walled courtyard, spires, indoor garden, artificial cave, and towers. [1] Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle.

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