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Posted On: June 28th 2026, 04:38 pm
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New Herrenchiemsee Palace 👑
The palace was erected from 1878 onwards based on the model of Versailles. It was the largest building project by King Ludwig II of Bavaria but remained incomplete when the king died in 1886.
The most impressive part: the Latona Fountain, also a copy of the one in Versailles.
On the top tier is a statue of the goddess Latona und her twin children Artemis and Apoll. The myth depicted is best told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The children‘s father was Zeus which incurred the hatred of his consort Hera. She forbid any mortals to give hospatility to Latona and her children, who were forced to wonder the earth fleeing Hera‘s persecution until they reached Lycia. The thirsty Latona drank from a local pond until the lycian farmers waded into the water and kicked up the mud from the bottom of the pond so that the water was undrinkable. Enraged, Latona cursed the Lycians to live in their pond forever, turning them into frogs. The sculptures on this fountain show some Lycians with hands or heads of frogs, visualising the transformation.⛲️
In 2025 the palace and its garden was designated as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
Fun fact: the costs for the New Palace were more than the total construction cost of Linderhof and Neuschwanstein Castle together!🏰
📍On Herreninsel the largest island on Lake Chiemsee in southern Bavaria, Germany.
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The palace was erected from 1878 onwards based on the model of Versailles. It was the largest building project by King Ludwig II of Bavaria but remained incomplete when the king died in 1886.
The most impressive part: the Latona Fountain, also a copy of the one in Versailles.
On the top tier is a statue of the goddess Latona und her twin children Artemis and Apoll. The myth depicted is best told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The children‘s father was Zeus which incurred the hatred of his consort Hera. She forbid any mortals to give hospatility to Latona and her children, who were forced to wonder the earth fleeing Hera‘s persecution until they reached Lycia. The thirsty Latona drank from a local pond until the lycian farmers waded into the water and kicked up the mud from the bottom of the pond so that the water was undrinkable. Enraged, Latona cursed the Lycians to live in their pond forever, turning them into frogs. The sculptures on this fountain show some Lycians with hands or heads of frogs, visualising the transformation.⛲️
In 2025 the palace and its garden was designated as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
Fun fact: the costs for the New Palace were more than the total construction cost of Linderhof and Neuschwanstein Castle together!🏰
📍On Herreninsel the largest island on Lake Chiemsee in southern Bavaria, Germany.
@schloesserverwaltung.bayern
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a month agoarcufo.ch
wie schön! da war ich als teenager auch mal, aber leider noch nicht kunstinteressiert 😅
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