Hermitage of Gurnemanz
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The Hermitage of Gurnemanz is a hermit's hut in a forest clearing in the park of Linderhof Palace . It was built in the summer of 1877 on behalf of King Ludwig II according to Richard Wagner's stage instructions from the third act of the opera Parsifal .
In August of that year Ludwig II informed his friend Richard Wagner that he had "a hermit's hut leaning against a rock" built. It resembled the one "from Gurnemanz, near a meadow that will become a flowery meadow next year," the letter said.
“A spring flows close by, everything there reminds me of that solemn, solemn Good Friday morning of your blissful Parsifal, who penetrated my deepest soul with overwhelming power, the most sacred and purest emotion in my eyes, who is truly not used to crying is. There on the consecrated site I already hear the silver trombones ringing out of the Grail Castle.
At that time, however, it was quite difficult to let the meadow in front of the hermitage bloom as a “flowery meadow”, in accordance with the royal wish, because the hermitage of Gurnemanz was in the mountains at an altitude of about 1,100 meters above sea level .
So nature was helped a little and before each visit of the king "lawns with plenty of flowers" were dug up in a climatically favored place and put back in front of the hermitage of Gurnemanz .
The hermitage with its bell tower fell into disrepair in the 1960s. In 1999/2000 private donations made the reconstruction of the Gurnemanz hermitage possible. The replica was also placed just 150 meters west of the new Hundinghütte .
literature
- Hans F. Nöhbauer: In the footsteps of King Ludwig II. A guide to castles and museums, places of life and memorials of the fairy tale king. 3. Edition. Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-4008-1 .
- Marcus Spangenberg: Linderhof. Buildings and dreams in the mountains , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3791728049 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 34'7 " N , 10 ° 58'5.2" E.