"Between the Living Room and the Study King Ludwig II had an artificial stalactite cavern built. These were in romantic vogue at that time. The landscape sculptor, Dirrigl from Munich, who had also built the grotto in the park of Schloss "Linderhof", built this grotto out of oakum and plaster-of-Paris, which has an artificial waterfall and which, with its illumination from above, is very effective.
As one goes out of the grotto, immediately to the right, after the Living Room, one comes to the entrance to the Winter Garden which is closed off by means of a glass door, sunk into the rock. The fountain in the Winter Garden was originally intended for the second floor. There it was to have graced a Moorish hail (with the Alhambra in Granada as its model). Because of the ceasing of the building work, with The Moorish hall not being built this fountain was placed in the Winter Garden. As in Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser", the grotto was to have represented the introduction to the study, in which room the painting of the legend is to be seen."
Neuschwanstein Castle<3
"Between the Living Room and the Study King Ludwig II had an artificial stalactite cavern built. These were in romantic vogue at that time. The landscape sculptor, Dirrigl from Munich, who had also built the grotto in the park of Schloss "Linderhof", built this grotto out of oakum and plaster-of-Paris, which has an artificial waterfall and which, with its illumination from above, is very effective.
As one goes out of the grotto, immediately to the right, after the Living Room, one comes to the entrance to the Winter Garden which is closed off by means of a glass door, sunk into the rock. The fountain in the Winter Garden was originally intended for the second floor. There it was to have graced a Moorish hail (with the Alhambra in Granada as its model). Because of the ceasing of the building work, with The Moorish hall not being built this fountain was placed in the Winter Garden. As in Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser", the grotto was to have represented the introduction to the study, in which room the painting of the legend is to be seen."
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