King Ludwig’s plans proceed undeterred in the…
1886 CE
King Ludwig’s plans proceed undeterred in the 1880s.
He plans construction of a new castle on Falkenstein ("Falcon Rock") near Pfronten in the Allgäu (a place he knows well: a diary entry for 16 October 1867 reads "Falkenstein wild, romantic").
The first design had been a sketch by Christian Jank in 1883 "very much like the Townhall of Liege" (Kreisel 1954, p. 82).
Subsequent designs show a modest villa with a square tower (Dollmann 1884) and a small Gothic castle (Schultze 1884, Hofmann 1886), as well as a Byzantine palace in the Graswangtal and a Chinese summer palace by the Plansee in Tyrol.
By 1885, a road and water supply had been provided at Falkenstein but the old ruins remain untouched; the other projects will never get beyond initial plans.
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Jank's plan for the castle Falkenstein
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