Hohenschwangau Castle
Hohenschwangau Castle or Schloss Hohenschwangau (lit: Upper
Swan County Palace) is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It
was the childhood residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was built
by his father, King Maximilian II of Bavaria. It is located in the
German village of Hohenschwangau near the town of Füssen, part of the
county of Ostallgäu in southwestern Bavaria, Germany, very close to
the border with Austria.
The fortress Schwangau, which was first mentioned in
historical records dating from the 12th Century, stood high up on a
rock on the site of the present 19th-century Neuschwanstein castle.
The knights, later counts of Schwangau, were ministerialis of the
Welfs. Hiltbolt von Schwangau (1195–1254) was a minnesinger. Margareta
von Schwangau was the wife of minnesinger Oswald von Wolkenstein.
Photo 71, 1985