What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle?
Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Castle (, , ; Southern Bavarian: "Schloss Neischwanstoa") is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. The castle was intended as a home for the king, until he died in 1886. It was open to the public shortly after his death. Since then more than
Neuschwanstein Castle ruins of the two Hohenschwangau Castles. Neuschwanstein embodies both the contemporaneous architectural fashion known as castle romanticism (), and Ludwig II's immoderate enthusiasm for the operas of Richard Wagner. In the 19th century, many castles were constructed or reconstructed, often with significant changes to make them more picturesque. Palace-building projects similar to Neuschwanstein had been undertaken earlier in several of the German states and included Hohenschwangau Castle, Lichtenstein Castle, Hohenzollern Castle, and numerous buildings on the River Rhine such as Stolzenfels Castle. The inspiration for the construction of Neuschwanstein came from two journeys in 1867 — one in May to