Neuschwanstein Castle: any particular significance?
From pb army tweet:
>>11842190 @USArmy: Soldier passes by Neuschwanstein Castle while transporting #COVID19 tests to @LRMC_Landstuhl at Hohenfels Training Area in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 15, 2020.
The Neuschwanstein Castle. Comfy place.
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Was used by the Nazis during WWII to hide loot. SS tried to blow up the place in 1945:
>Due to its secluded location, the palace survived the destruction of two World Wars. Until 1944, it served as a depot for Nazi plunder that was taken from France by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Institute for the Occupied Territories (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete), a suborganisation of the Nazi Party.[44] The castle was used to catalogue the works of arts. (After World War II 39 photo albums were found in the palace documenting the scale of the art seizures. The albums are now stored in the United States National Archives.[45])
>In April 1945, the SS considered blowing up the palace to prevent the building itself and the artwork it contained from falling to the enemy.[46] The plan was not realised by the SS-Gruppenführer who had been assigned the task, however, and at the end of the war the palace was surrendered undamaged to representatives of the Allied forces.[46] Thereafter the Bavarian archives used some of the rooms as a provisional store for salvaged archivalia, as the premises in Munich had been bombed.[47]
>Neuschwanstein embodies both the contemporaneous architectural fashion known as castle romanticism (German: Burgenromantik), and King Ludwig II's enthusiasm for the operas of Richard Wagner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle