King Ludwig II Of Bavaria

[+ Avalon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

 

Today - 13 June - is the anniversary of the death of this gay king in 1886.

 

He was a castle builder. Inspiration for the Disneyland Castle!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_Castle

[alkan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

 

Today - 13 June - is the anniversary of the death of this gay king in 1886.

 

He was a castle builder. Inspiration for the Disneyland Castle!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_Castle

 

His unhappy personal life is well documented, his sensitivity to Wagner and his own form of creativity make him fascinating. We also should perhaps admire the technical skill of the men who built Neuschwanstein in spite of the huge difficulties created by the site and the whims of the inspirer. And remember too on this day the servant who died with him. All right, a slight euphemism there.

https://dryaskulk.tumblr.com

Two other buildings which may have had some influence on the Sleeping Beauty story. Tyn church may have had some influence on the Disney design, and Usse, lost in its dreaming woods, may have helped with the formulation of the original story (or someone thought that was a good marketing ploy).

[+ Avalon]

His unhappy personal life is well documented, his sensitivity to Wagner and his own form of creativity make him fascinating. We also should perhaps admire the technical skill of the men who built Neuschwanstein in spite of the huge difficulties created by the site and the whims of the inspirer. And remember too on this day the servant who died with him. All right, a slight euphemism there.

https://dryaskulk.tumblr.com

Two other buildings which may have had some influence on the Sleeping Beauty story. Tyn church may have had some influence on the Disney design, and Usse, lost in its dreaming woods, may have helped with the formulation of the original story (or someone thought that was a good marketing ploy).

 

Thanks for info. I was unaware of those two places.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_before_T%C3%BDn

 

http://www.chateaudusse.fr/?lang=en

[liubit]

Two buildings which may have had some influence on the Sleeping Beauty story. Tyn church may have had some influence on the Disney design, and Usse, lost in its dreaming woods, may have helped with the formulation of the original story (or someone thought that was a good marketing ploy).

Tyn Church in Prague’s Old Town Square is my avatar here

[alkan]

Tyn Church in Prague’s Old Town Square is my avatar here

We lived in an apartment just beside it, looking onto the north door. Very beautiful. Why did you choose it?

[+ friendofsheila]

Wasn't he also nutty as a jaybird?

[alkan]

Wasn't he also nutty as a jaybird?

Well yes. He created a fantasy for himself and when the practicalities of real life prevented him from living the fantasy, he retreated from the real world rather than give up the fantasy. (This is almost exactly how you could look at his architectural creations.) I don't suppose that that is a technically sound psychological description but it is how I think of it. The investigation of his death was somewhat blurred by the need for discretion but he seems to have killed someone and then committed suicide. Before the last few days though he seems to have had lucid times when he was conscious of the pain of the struggle.

[+ Avalon]

It looks like Ludwig's Castle at the back of the stage

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsql523bSj4

[+ Pensant]

The Wittelsbach Dynasty, like the Hapsburgs, left an enduring architectural legacy from Munich to L’viv and south to Croatia. The Hapsburgs also left a great deal of architectural treasures in Spain. Remarkable people and much more loved by the people than the Windsors, Hohenzollerns or Romanovs.

[+ Pensant]

The Wittelsbach Dynasty, like the Hapsburgs, left an enduring architectural legacy from Munich to L’viv and south to Croatia. The Hapsburgs also left a great deal of architectural treasures in Spain. Remarkable people and much more loved by the people than the Windsors, Hohenzollerns or Romanovs.

[liubit]

We lived in an apartment just beside it, looking onto the north door. Very beautiful. Why did you choose it?

Because I was living in Prague when I picked it. I left the city a year ago and still miss the boys!

[TruthBTold]

It seems that he might of been much happier if he had just abdicated and lived his slightly mad life the way he wished. Unfortunately it appears that his younger brother perhaps was also insane so things would have been hard. At any rate he was handsome.

 

[Doe Be Doe]

Bring back the Wittelsbachs, Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Wettins, Oldenburgs, bring em all back.

[+ Pensant]

I’m reading a book about the origins of WWI, and the diplomacy did seem more civilized in those days, although frequently wrong-headed, as events later confirmed. Austria-Hungary was actually thriving economically because of the imperial free trade regime. Cisleithania, the German part, had its own government, as did Transleithania, the Hungarian part, which was much more aggressive than the former in trying to impose Magyarization on the Slavs. The only imperial functions were defense and foreign affairs.

[Kenny]

trying to impose Magyarization on the Slavs

That's always been a problem, unless one is a versatile top.