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Around Klagenfurt, Austria : Sicily to Ukraine by camper van part 54
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Wonderful weather, wonderful scenery, what better place to be than in a camper van travelling through the Austrian Alps at the beginning of June?
I left the Rosenthal Strasse (Austrian route B85) in my previous film and am now on the Austrian route 91 as I go over the Loiblpass Strasse, however I could have stayed on the B85 as it more or less ends up in the same place as the route I took. Incidentally this is not the Loiblpass which is further to the south and cuts through the Alps to join Austria with Slovenia.
The road takes me through Klagenfurt but this film does not show much of the city. If you want to see Klagenfurt, you have come to the wrong video!
Klagenfurt is at 446 metres. It is on the lake Wörthersee and on the Glan River. The city is surrounded by several forest-covered hills and mountains with heights of up to 1,000 m as you can see in this film. Ulrichsberg is the highest. To the south is the Karawanken mountain range, which separates Carinthia from Slovenia and Italy which you can see in the beginning of the film as I turn the van around as well as in other films in this series.
The name is quite odd. It appears to me that there is no shortage of linguists in Carinthia who have given all sorts of suggestions. Basically the name in German translates to ford of lament or ford of complaints. Here is one suggestion about where this could come from. A baker's apprentice was accused of theft and executed, but a few days later he was proved to be innocent, the citizens' lamented (= 'Klagen'). This story was reported by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, who later became Pope Pius II.
Legend has it that Klagenfurt was founded after a couple of men killed the abominable Lindwurm, a winged dragon in the moors adjoining the lake. There is a nine ton Renaissance monument in the city centre.
Klagenfurt was founded by the Spanheim Duke Herman as a stronghold on commercial routes. In 1252 the town received a city charter.
Klagenfurt suffered fires, earthquakes, invasions of locusts and attacks from Turks, and was ravaged by the Peasants' Wars. In 1514 a fire almost completely destroyed the city, and in 1518 Emperor Maximilian I, unable to rebuild it, ceded Klagenfurt to the nobility. The new owners brought about an economic and cultural renaissance. A canal was dug to connect the city to the lake as a supply route for timber to rebuild the city and to supply the city's new moats. The city was enlarged along a geometrical chequer-board lay-out according to the Renaissance ideas of the Italian architect Domenico dell'Allio; a new city centre square, the Neuer Platz, was constructed; and the new fortifications that took half a century to build made Klagenfurt the strongest fortress north of the Alps until Napoleon destroyed then in 1809.
In 1863 the city was connected by railway with an imposing central station which was destroyed in World War II.
In 1919, the city was occupied by the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes which claimed part of Carinthia. In 1920, the Yugoslavs withdrew after the Carinthian Plebiscite in October 1920, when the majority of voters ]decided to remain part of Austria.
During World War II, the city was bombed 41 times, killing 612 people, completely destroying 443 buildings, and damaging 1,132 others. 110,000 cubic metres of rubble had to be removed.
On 3 May 1945 General Löhr of Army Group E (Heeresgruppe E) declared Klagenfurt an open city.
On 8 May 1945, at 9:30 a.m., the British Eighth Army under General McCreery entered Klagenfurt. General Noeldechen surrendered the 438th German Division to Major General Horatius Murray. Three hours later groups of partisans arrived on a train which they had seized in the Rosental valley the day before, and Yugoslav regular forces of the IVth army moved in. They claimed the city with its South Carinthian hinterland and set up a HQ for the Carinthian Military Zone under Major Egon Remec.
On 7 May 1945, a committee of locals took power from the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Friedrich Rainer.
Several days passed before the Yugoslav troops withdrew from the city. Protected by British soldiers, the members of the Provisional State Government took the reins of power. It took months before basic communication and public transport, mail service and supply were working again. Part of the British Eighth Army had their headquarters in Klagenfurt, since Carinthia and Styria formed the British occupation zone in liberated Austria, which lasted until 26 October 1955.
In 2007 the city changed its official name to Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Klagenfurt on Lake Wörth). As there are no other settlements by the name of Klagenfurt anywhere, the previous shorter name remains unambiguous.
9 Things to do in Innsbruck, Austria
These are my carefully selected 9 things to do when travelling Innsbruck in Austria. My favorite places to visit in Innsbruck include the Golden Roof, Maria-Theresien-Strasse, Imperial Palace, Imperial Chruch of Kenotaph Maximilian I, Ambras Castle, Cathedral of St. James and the Basilika Wilten. These places are all highly worth visiting.
Innsbruck became the capital of all Tyrol in 1429 and in the fifteenth century the city became a centre of European politics and culture as emperor Maximilian I also resided in Innsbruck in the 1490s.
The city benefited from the emperor's presence as can be seen for example in the so called Hofkirche. Here a funeral monument for Maximilian was planned and erected partly by his successors.
The ensemble with a cenotaph and the bronze statues of real and mythical ancestors of the Habsburgian emperor are one of the main artistic monuments of Innsbruck.
In 1938 Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in the Anschluss. Between 1943 and April 1945, Innsbruck experienced twenty-two bomb attacks and suffered heavy damage. The KZ Innsbruck-Reichenau concentration camp was located here.
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Linderhof Palace (German: Schloss Linderhof) is a Schloss in Germany, in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.
Ludwig already knew the area around Linderhof from his youth when he had accompanied his father King Maximilian II of Bavaria on his hunting trips in the Bavarian Alps. When Ludwig II became king in 1864 he inherited the so-called Königshäuschen from his father, and in 1869 began enlarging the building. In 1874 he decided to tear down the Königshäuschen and rebuild it on its present-day location in the park. At the same time three new rooms and the staircase were added to the remaining U-shaped complex, and the previous wooden exterior was clad with stone façades. The building was designed in the style of the second rococo-period. Between 1863 and 1886 a total of 8,460,937 marks was spent constructing Linderhof
Although Linderhof is much smaller than Versailles, it is evident that the palace of the French Sun-King Louis XIV (who was an idol for Ludwig) was its inspiration. The staircase, for example, is a reduction of the famous Ambassador's staircase in Versailles, which would be copied in full in Herrenchiemsee. Stylistically, however, the building and its decor take their cues from the mid-18th century Rococo of Louis XV, and the small palace in the Graswang was more directly based on that king's Petit Trianon on the Versailles grounds.[2] The symbol of the sun that can be found everywhere in the decoration of the rooms represents the French notion of absolutism that, for Ludwig, was the perfect incorporation of his ideal of a God-given monarchy with total royal power. Such a monarchy could no longer be realised in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. The bedroom was important to the ceremonial life of an absolute monarch; Louis XIV of France used to give his first (lever) and last audience (coucher) of the day in his bedchamber. In imitation of Versailles, the bedroom is the largest chamber of Linderhof Palace. By facing north, however, the Linderhof bedroom inverts the symbolism of its Versailles counterpart, showing Ludwig's self-image as a Night-King.
The location of the palace near Ettal Abbey again presents another interesting point. Because of its architecture Ludwig saw the church of the monastery as the room where the holy grail was preserved. This fact connects the idea of a baroque palace to the one of a medieval castle such as Neuschwanstein and reminds of the operas of Richard Wagner whose patron Ludwig was
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