Magnus on the go! Füssen Ep 2 - Neuschwanstein Castle and Ludvig II, das musical.

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FÜSSEN EPISODE 2
In this episode I’m in the south of Germany, in the picturesque city of Füssen.
I’ll visit Neuschwanstein Castle with the Bavarian Castle tour company.
Disney himself got the inspiration to the design of the famous Disney castle from this castle!

I also go to the festspielhaus just outside Füssen and watch Ludvig II, Das musical.
Ludvig II was the king who built Neuschwanstein Castle and he died at the age of 40 in mysterious circumstances in 1886, when his lifeless body was found floating in Lake Starnberg, south of Munich, together with the corpse of his physician.


INTINERARY
Füssen, Germany
Verona, Italy
Venice, Italy
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Plitvice lakes, Croatia
Pula, Croatia
Bled, Slovenia


Neuschwanstein Castle
(German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn], is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig chose to pay for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. Construction began in 1869, but was never fully completed.
The castle was intended as a private residence for the King, until he died in 1886. It was open to the public shortly after his death. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.

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 basic style was originally planned to be neo-Gothic but the palace was primarily built in Romanesque style in the end. The operatic themes moved gradually from Tannhäuser and Lohengrin to Parsifal

Neuschwanstein Castle is open at present. A visit is only possible as part of a guided tour. Please note that the group sizes had to be significantly reduced due to hygiene regulations.

Tickets for Neuschwanstein Castle are only available online at:
www.hohenschwangau.de

Please take into account considerable waiting times and restrictions such as altered routes or room closures.
The official hygiene and conduct rules of course apply for visits to all the sights and notices will be posted in each place as a reminder.

https://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/

https://bavariancastletour.com


Ludwig II
(25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He is sometimes called the Swan King or der Märchenkönig ("the Fairy Tale King").
Ludwig succeeded to the throne in 1864. He was aged 18. His real interests were in art, music, and architecture. One of the first acts of his reign, was to summon Wagner to his court. Also in 1864, he laid the foundation stone of a new Court Theatre, now the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (Gärtnerplatz-Theater).


FÛSSEN
Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu, situated one kilometre from the Austrian border. The town is known for violin manufacturing and as the closest transportation hub for the Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles. As of 2018 the town has a population of 15,538.

Füssen later became the site of the "Hohes Schloss" (High Castle), the former summer residence of the prince-bishops of Augsburg. Below the Hohes Schloss is the Baroque complex of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, whose history goes back to the 9th century. Füssen has Saint Mang (Magnus of Füssen) as its patron saint. He and his Benedictine brother Theodor were two monks from the Abbey of Saint Gall and are considered to be its founders, in addition to the Monastery of Kempten. Magnus' original burial place was in the small chapel he built. His bones were transferred to the crypt of the church built in 850. Around the year 950 all his bones disappeared.