Royal Villa (Berchtesgaden)

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South side of the Royal Villa, seen from Luitpoldpark.

The Royal Villa (also: Max Villa ) in Berchtesgaden was built by order of the Bavarian King Maximilian II according to plans by the architect Ludwig Lange and completed in 1853. It is a listed building and stands west of the market center on Kälbersteinstraße above the Luitpoldpark, which opened in 1893 .

Usage history

Like his ancestors and descendants, Maximilian II had spent many summers in the Royal Palace . In the royal villa that he built , his two sons Otto and the later fairy tale king Ludwig II had spent their summer holidays as children "between 1853 and 1863". However, an incident in the park of the Royal Villa has been rumored since the end of the 19th century , which caused Ludwig II to take a violent dislike of Berchtesgaden as early as 1857 and which after the death of his father (1864) kept him from further visits to the Villa held.

Last used by Prince Regent Ludwig until 1918, the Royal Villa was managed by the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund from 1922 and sold to a private individual in 1975. Part of the building was converted into apartments in the early 1920s; Everything else was used one after the other before the Second World War as a “higher education institution”, an exhibition space for the local artists' association, “Café Bubestinger” and “Kur-Café Königliche Villa”, the latter combined with an initial renovation.

After the war, the villa served as a youth center, café and wholesale market. Around the mid-1980s, it was finally divided into around 30 condominiums. Since then, only the large main staircase, paintings in the stairwell and some largely original rooms or parts of them are in their original condition.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dieter Meister: The haven of calm for kings, artists, coffee drinkers and children . In: Berchtesgadener Anzeiger ; News from November 21, 2003
  2. ↑ Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house and Karl M. Lipp publishing house, Munich 1973. Keywords: Royal Villa p. 176 and Schloß p. 310
  3. ^ Walter Flemmer: Stations of a fairy tale king. Places and landscapes of King Ludwig II. In: Georg Jenal with the collaboration of Stephanie Haarländer (ed.): Present in Past. Contributions to the culture and history of the modern and modern times. Festgabe for Friedrich Prinz on his 65th birthday, Munich 1993, p. 419
  4. ^ At Heinz Häfner - A king is eliminated . Munich 2008 - it says from p. 38 f .: In the park of the royal villa a court official discovered “that Ludwig tied his brother ( Otto ) hands and feet, with a gag in his mouth and a sackcloth around his neck on the floor and tugged violently at the cloth. (..) The officer had to use force to free Otto. Father Max II was shocked and angry about Ludwig's behavior. He dictated a severe punishment. For his part, Ludwig was so bitter about it that he took a violent dislike for Berchtesgaden and did not return there for a long time. "

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '44.2 "  N , 12 ° 59' 48.9"  E