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...three days, Cleveland had been sprinkled with Germans-from Chicago, from Milwaukee, from Peoria, from St. Louis, from Manhattan, They were singing as they loved to, celebrating a community festival that some of their parents and grandparents had founded in 1845 in Wurzburg, Bavaria...
Citizens of the U. S. know about Buckingham Palace and Versailles, yet cannot, in the main, so much as pronounce the names of those even more costly and unique royal castles of Bavaria: Herrenschiem-see, Hohenschwangau, and Neu-schwanstein. From them ruled the Wittelsbachs, among the most ancient in lineage of modern Germanic kings, a family of genius often tinged with madness. Last week the head of this venerable and royal house, onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, was visited at his Munich home by delegations of thronging, cheering Bavarians who hailed him as "King Rupprecht, our Rightful King...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
Perhaps there seem to drum in imagination's ear those feverish midnight hoofbeats which so often heralded (in winter or summer, snow or clear) the approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women...
Such a madman, such a King, could touch the Bavarian heart, fire imaginations, make the very enormity of his follies a .source of national pride. "What country but Bavaria could produce a king so mad as ours?" asked contented tradespeople as they grew rich supplying his luxuries. Even today, Ludwig II, who drowned himself in a fury at last, seems a hero to Bavaria...