Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany
The famous neuschwanstein castle – which will have inspired the creation of the Sleeping Beauty Castle – is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it’s not alone.
Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace, HerrenchiemSee Palace and Schachen’s royal residence are already UNESCO World Heritage.
Os Four German palaces built by King Louis II of Bavaria They were added to the list of the cultural and natural world heritage, following a candidacy of the German Commission of UNESCO.
As Turismo da Germany praises, in a statement sent to ZAP, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee adopted the corresponding resolution at the 47th Session of the International Cultural Organization last week in Paris.
Louis II inspired fairy tales
Louis II, king of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886, began in 1867 to build an alternative world far from Munich, the city of residence of the Court, where he could live as a true monarch in his quality of constitutional king and regent of Bavaria.
In 1868, he ordered to start building a residence in Neuschwanstein on the remains of two medieval castles.
Today, the building that looks like a fairy tale It is considered a symbol of German romanticism and is one of Germany’s most famous sights. Because it will have inspired by the creation of the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Parallel to this project, plans began to be prepared to build a luxurious palace on the island of HerrenchiemSee, in Lake Chiemfor whose conception and decoration Louis II took as reference the absolutist architecture of the Palace of Versailles.
The construction of Linderhof Palace It began in 1869 in the Graswang Valley, south of Oberammergau, style of a nineteenth -century high bourgeoisie villa.
1866 meters high and with the grand panorama of the wetterstein massif as a backdrop, Schachen Royal Residence.
All Ludwig II architectural projects have in common historical inspiration and a Single Architectural Conception.
“These recently declared world assets are harmoniously integrated into a cultural landscape that seduces its authenticity and variety,” says Turismo da Germany in the statement.
There are now 55 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany, 52 of which are sites of cultural world heritage and three places of natural world heritage, all of them being part of the most important testimonies in the history of humanity.
