Herrenchiemsee Palace, Germany
During his trip to France in 1867, King Ludwig II of Bavaria originally planned to visit the Palace of Versailles, which he had long admired. However, he learned on the way that his uncle Otto had suddenly passed away, so Ludwig II had to leave in a hurry and missed the Palace of Versailles.
In December 1868, he asked the court architect Georg von Dormann to design a preliminary draft of the building based on the prototype of the shelter of the Palace of Versailles, which was used for the Linderhof Palace in the Graswang Valley of the Alps, which was under construction at the time. It was not until September 1873 that Dormann proposed seventeen different floor plans, many front elevations and bedroom plans for Ludwig II to choose from.
Another trip to France in 1870 was forced to be cancelled due to the unstable political situation, and the Franco-German War broke out in the same year.
In the summer of 1874, King Ludwig II of Bavaria finally came to France again as he wished, and visited the Palace of Versailles, which he admired, and the water sports performances arranged by the French government as a state guest.
Ludwig II had lost interest in the Linderhof Castle project because the space in the valley was not enough to support the huge building complex in his mind.
The previous design plans were used for the new palace project on the Herrenchiemsee Island in Lake Chiemsee, Germany, which was purchased in 1873. The groundbreaking ceremony of the Herrenchiemsee Palace was held on May 21, 1878, and the bedroom part of the magnificent main body, which had just been completed and cost more than the island purchase price, was handed over in 1881.
From September 7 to 16, 1885, Ludwig II lived in the unfinished Herrenchiemsee Palace for a few days and received actress Marie daan Hausmann.
Until June 13, 1886, when Ludwig II died mysteriously, he had only lived in the Herrenchiemsee Palace for a few days. The cost of this palace was the highest among the three, exceeding the sum of Neuschwanstein Castle and Linderhof Castle. Until his death, the construction cost of the palace had soared from the budgeted 5.7 million marks to 16.6 million marks, which was equivalent to 250 million US dollars in October 2013.
The palace garden was designed by the royal gardener and garden architect Carl von Efner. Because the height difference of the island was small and the space was limited, only part of the reference was made to the Palace of Versailles, and it was impossible to achieve an accurate copy.
The palace garden, a classic Baroque garden design, has a basic structure in a cross-shaped layout. The Letourne Fountain in front of the palace is the center of its landscape. The main axis is east-west, imitating the scenery of the Versailles waterway crossing the island and leading to Lake Chiemsee, and intersecting with the subordinate north-south axis.
There are two large sculptures of water features on the left and right in front of the palace. The Roman god Fama is on the right, and Fortuna, the goddess of luck and destiny in Roman mythology, is on the left.
The Fama Fountain at Herrenchiemsee Palace (Rudolf Meissen 1854-1904) was built based on the fountain model of the Palace of San Ildefonso in Spain
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