European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                And melancholy chapter in bavarian history. The mad King Ludwig ii who commissioned the stunning Neuse Hanstein and Linderhof castles in the Alps often resided in a smaller Castle there. Ludwig drowned in the Lake at Berg too under circumstances which never became Clear. A votive Chapel was erected in his memory near the spot where the bodies of both the King and his doctor were found. Ludwig was not the Lake s Only victim. Local water patrol volunteers said 31 people believed to have drowned in the Lake in the last Century have never been found. Lake Sharnberg does t give up its bodies easily that s what they All say claimed a woman who has lived near the Shore for decades in the Village of amerland. The Lake also swallowed a German air Force plane Alfons Gischell at the wheel of a Sharnberg boat. During world War ii but Salvage Crews hauled it out about a dozen years later Gischell said. Stopping at berried affords the visitor a look at a nature Reserve with rare Trees the Church and pilgrimage Chapel of an nine Century old Benedictine monastery. Futzing Home of a respected protestant Academy is also the place to get the Best View of the German Alps to the South. And Sharnberg a resort town of 13,000 people at the Lake s Northern tip offers a City museum a waterfront Park Public swimming pools saunas and other recreational facilities. It is the Home town of Hans Urmiller the Man whose face adorns the 50 Mark Bill he lived in a Castle in the town s leu Stetten District. It is also the place where the Spring fed Lake drains into the slender Wurm River which flows through the Eastern part of Munich and into the Amper River at Dachau. I july 14, 1988 stripes Magazine 9