A Gothic Revival castle built by Eduard Riedel and the opera set designer
Christian Jank between 1869 and 1886 on top of a Bavarian hill,
commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as a private fantasy retreat.
It draws on Wagner’s operas (Ludwig worshipped the man) and on medieval
castles both real and imagined. The king himself only lived there for 172
days before his mysterious death in June 1886.
