#herzog max palais

[archduchessofnowhere]

Sisi really became a Cottagecore Running Free and Talking to Animals in the Forest Poor Princess in media when she grew up in *check notes* one of the biggest palaces in Munich:

[demolina]

On 24 December 1837, Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie von Wittelsbach was born at Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich, Bavaria. Sisi, as she became known, was the four child and second daugther of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. The day of her birth was a Sunday, and the infant was also born with one teeth already showing, traditionally signs of good fortune.  

[sissiofaustria]

Marie Ludovika Wilhelmina, duchess in Bavaria, born princess of Bavaria, was the fifth daughter of the Bavarian king Maximilian I and Queen Caroline. Her sister Sophie was the mother of Frans Jozef I of Austria. On November 9, 1828, Ludovika married her second cousin Duke Maximilian in Bavaria (from the Wittelsbach House).

The couple lived in the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich in the winter and in the summer they lived at Schloß Possenhofen on the Starnberger See. They had ten children, of whom the best known, Elisabeth (Sissi), was to marry the Austrian emperor Frans Joseph I, who was Elisabeth's full cousin.

Her son Karel Theodoor was a grandfather of Elisabeth in Bavaria and with that a forefather of the Belgian king Albert II of Belgium. On January 25, 1892, Empress Elisabeth received a telegram from Munich: Ludovika had pneumonia.

On January 26, 1892, at four o'clock in the morning, she died at the age of 83.

[coffeenewstom]

Wo Juristen Kaffee trinken - Café Kreutzkamm in der Maxburg

Wo Juristen Kaffee trinken – Café Kreutzkamm in der Maxburg

Was die Münchner heute die “Neue Maxburg” nennen, war bis 1944 ein repräsentativer Amts- und Behördenbau, der wiederum aus einem häufig umgebauten Stadtschloss der Wittelsbacher hervorging, der Wilhelminische Veste, beziehungsweise Herzog-Max-Burg. Von dem ursprünglichen Renaissancebau ist nur noch der Turm erhalten, alles andere wurde 1954 bis 1957 neu errichtet, nachdem man die übrigen Reste…

[archduchessofnowhere]

Speaking of researching 19th century maps: I'd read many times before that the Max Palais and the Leuchtenberg Palais were both on the Ludwigstrasse but for some reason I never realized they were LITERALLY NEXT TO EACH OTHER????

I feel so silly for never noticing it I've searched for both the palaces before on a (modern) map!!

And if you zoom out a bit more you also find across the street: the palace of Ludovika's brother Prince Karl Theodor (the "Herzog" is a mistake it should say "Prinz"), and the Residenz, the Bavarian royal family's main palace in Munich.

New York Times Bestseller Historical Fiction Author Allison Pataki writing Ludovika: I was very lonely after I married Max and had to leave my family :(((

Actually Ludovika: *literally neighbors with half of her siblings*

[archduchessofnowhere]

Me when I suddenly remember that the Herzog Max Palais and the Leuchtenberg Palais don't exist anymore