European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Linderhof Castle ludwigs favorite where he supposedly spent much time daydreaming and Drifting in a conc Shell boat in the underground Lake of an artificial Sasdi Hick Ludwig whiled away hours in Linderhof moorish continued irom Page 9t Tor this time in the Alps near Hising above the it Flat Gorge and the me Dieva style fantasy of Grey Granite bristling with towers and Pinnacles soars upward amid the lofty Mist Enve loped peaks framing Neuse Hanstein Castle some 80 Miles mouthed of Munich and 40 Miles West of Garmisch conjures up dreams of Days of dungeons and but Ludwig preferred a fairer the and the Motif is found throughout the porcelain Swan paintings and Swan murals pleased the King and even the water in his Wash Basin flowed from a swans among the then newfangled gadgets with which the King equipped his Castle was a Central hot air system which piped heat into the throne and a crude Telephone system which connected Neu Schwan Stein with a distance of less than two the throne room in Neuse Hanstein reveals ludwigs fondness for exquisite wide Marble stairs Lead to a gilded masterpiece of Ivory figures and Blue and Gold carpets and ludwigs passion for swans was nut confined to within the Castle on Moonlit his favorite Wagner was reenact cd on the nearby Lake for the Kings during this the the Swan makes his entry pulled by a giant All throughout his Castle building spree Neu Schwan after 17 years construction was still not completed when he died ludwigs Peers shuddered in horror at the peculiarity of his especially when he went off on bizarre tangents such As asking his serv ants to pose for nude statues fur the Linderhof in the bavarian ministers reached the limit of their tolerance and the swashbuckling Kings Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1977