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Berg Palace (German: Schloss Berg) is a manor house situated on the east bank of Lake Starnberg in the village of Berg in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The site became widely known as the last residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and location of his disputed death.
In 1890, the Royal house of the Netherlands and the Grand Ducal house of Luxembourg diverged, and the new Grand Duke, Adolphe, purchased Berg Castle the following year, in order to maintain the Grand Ducal estate at Colmar-Berg.
Berg Palace (German: Schloss Berg) is a manor house situated on the east bank of Lake Starnberg in the village of Berg in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The site became widely known as the last residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and location of his disputed death.
In 1890, the Royal house of the Netherlands and the Grand Ducal house of Luxembourg diverged, and the new Grand Duke, Adolphe, purchased Berg Castle the following year, in order to maintain the Grand Ducal estate at Colmar-Berg.
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Linderhof Palace
- Herrenchiemsee New Palace
- Hohenschwangau Castle
- Berg Castle
- Place of Death
- Votive Chapel
- Roseninsel
- Ludwig’s Artists
- Philipp Perron
Neuschwanstein was the first great castle building project of King Ludwig II. During his time as crown prince, his father Maximilian II had acquired in 1832 the ruin of the manor Schwanstein and commissioned the painter Domenico Quaglio (1787-1837) to renovate it as "Schloss Hohenschwangau". Maximilian had paths and viewpoints laid out nearby to be...
Of the buildings, which King Ludwig II commissioned, the royal villa Linderhof, today usually termed a castle or palace, is his most intimate edifice and the only one that he inhabited for any length of time. The idyllic Graswang valley had already delighted Ludwig’s father, King Maximilian II. He bought the forester’s lodge near the "Linderhof" si...
Although Ludwig II was a constitutional monarch, he nonetheless venerated the absolutist France of King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715), whom he considered a direct ancestor by means of god parenthood. After all, in 1786 the French King Louis XVI (r. 1774-1792, executed 1793), a direct descendent of the sun king, had become godfather to the future Bavaria...
During the high and late Middle Ages, the lords of Schwangau had four castles constructed for themselves in the southern Allgäu region: Vorder- and Hinterschwangau, Schwanstein and Frauenstein. Shortly before their family became extinct, the family sold their property in 1535 to a patrician family from Augsburg. After several changes in ownership, ...
In 1676, the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria (1636-1679) purchased the die Hofmark Berg (i.e. originally a manor with economic and legal privileges) on the Würmsee (today, Starnberger See). In conjunction with a small palace built in 1640 it was the location of numerous lacustrine and hunting events organised for the Wittelsbachs. During the ninet...
After his legal incapacitation on 11 June 1886, the so-called "Fangkommission" (catch commission) under direction of Bernhard von Gudden (1824-1886) brought King Ludwig II to Schloss Berg, which had been chosen as the future place of abode for the monarch. Having arrived here on 12 June around noon, the following day Ludwig behaved far more placidl...
On 13 June 1896 – exactly ten years after the royal catastrophe of 1886 – Prince Regent Luitpold laid the foundation stone for a memorial church above the scene of the accident. The elongated neo-Romanesque sacred space, today usually termed a votive chapel, was built in accordance with the plans of Julius Hofmann (1840-1896). After his death, his ...
King Maximilian II had discovered the idyllic landscape around Lake Starnberg during his time as crown prince. To create a generous summer residence for himself, he bought among other things the Wörth Island situated in front of the western shore of the lake near Feldafing in 1850. The architect Franz Jakob Kreuter (1813-1899) constructed here in t...
In the series presented here, the volumes with photographs of works of art by Julius Hofmann and Philipp Perron are an exception. While the first is possibly some kind of "memorial volume" for the architect who had died in the month of August in the year of publication, the latter served probably as an advertisement for the still flourishing worksh...
Philipp Perron (1840-1907) hailed from Frankenthal in the Palatinate that was then still part of Bavaria. After an apprenticeship in Paris and at the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künstehe worked as a freelance sculptor. Among the creative artisans who contributed to the palaces of Ludwig II, Perron was one of the most important. With his workshop,...
From 1890, the former city hall became the exclusive residence of Grand Duke Adolphe. The Palace underwent major renovation work and an additional wing was built in the courtyard, under the supervision of the Belgian architect Gédéon Bordiau and the state architect Charles Arendt.
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Today, the castle at Lake Starnberg is mainly associated with King Ludwig II and his death. In the 17th century, Elector Ferdinand Maria acquired the castle and used it for glamorous festivities and hunting parties. In the following centuries his successors took over the property.
