Bavarians revere the eccentric King. Musicals and songs have been composed about him and Bavarian pubs still carry his portrait.
The King's current popularity is based on admiration for his almost poetic love of building impractical castles.
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A portrait of the castle of King Ludwig II of Bavaria ploughed in a hemp field in Utting, Germany. |
His enthusiasm for castle-building was such that he bankrupted the state. The psychological explanation for his behaviour is most likely obsession, dubbed compulsive palace-building. However, he was declared insane shortly before he drowned in the Starnberg Lake near Munich in 1886.
The 20,000 sq m (215,000 sq ft) hemp field labyrinth will be open to the public from July 19 to September 20.
Isn't that a face in the background of the plow marks? Looking slightly down and to the right like a face on a coin it looks like to me, with mustache and beard..