Herrenchiemsee -- Ludwig's Island Hideaway.
Chiemsee is the largest lake entirely within Germany's borders. It is a beautiful lake perched at the foot of the eastern Bavarian Alps that provide an incredibly scenic backdrop for the sailboats and water skiiers that congregate there every summer. Despite being on a major thoroughfare between Munich and Salzburg, the Chiemsee is surrounded only by small resort towns. It was perhaps this sense of minor seclusion that inspired King Ludwig II to take the lake's largest island, Herreninsel, and convert it into his own private lake cottage, complete with Versailles-like Schloss Herrenchiemsee.
Indeed, Versailles was the inspiration for the castle's appearance. King Ludwig continued his bow toward French royalty, loading the interior with portraits of French kings.Like Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee is big, magnificent, and unfinished. In fact, only twenty of its rooms were completed.
pretty sweet!
posted by amanda @ 4:17 PM
15 Comments:
That is humoungalicious!!!!!:)
yea pretty much,and only 20 rooms were finished!that is just weird.
WOW!!!
so much for that being a "hideaway!:)
I would want to see those rooms!:)
Camera's are not aloud in the castles,so i have no pics of the insides,sorry.But i will look for some,just in case.
Must be nice to be a king....
Keep dreaming, mike!:)
................you'll never and I mean NEVER ,mike, be THAT high!! so take M&M'S advice!!!!!!!!!!!KEEP DREAMING!!!!!!sorry
abby chill out.
Now he wants to be princess for a day! whats next?:(
what???????????????????
you now know! k :)
Cause i told you!
I say briefly: Best! Useful information. Good job guys.
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