Neuschwanstein Castle, Above the village of Hohenschwangau, Bavaria, Germany... www.castlesandmanorhouses.com ... euschwanstein Castle (Schloss Neuschwanstein), is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace. It was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner. The palace was intended as a personal refuge but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his suspicious death in 1886.