Word: schloss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Profitable Inconvenience. Willy Brennecke, general manager of the dignified old (90 years) Schloss-Hotel Hahnhof, agreed to evict his regular guests to make room for the new visitor-Saudi Arabia's oil-rich and autocratic King Saud. It would be inconvenient, but inconveniences could be tolerated in Baden-Baden for a party prepared to pay $10,000 a day. While Willy mobilized, other Baden-Baden innkeepers embarked on the difficult task of persuading their own guests to double up in bathless bedrooms in order to take care of the princely overflow...
...Schloss Herrenchiemsee (through September) got into the festival business years before the war with a series of candlelight concerts at the imposing castle, which is often passed off as a medieval relic, although it was actually built by mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria only 70 years ago. The specialty at Schloss Herrenchiemsee (near Munich) is low-calorie chamber music, e.g., Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn, Boccherini, Dittersdorf, played by a string quartet beneath the castle's crystal mirrors and chandeliers...
Married. Princess Margarita of Baden, 24, blue-eyed niece of Britain's Prince Philip, and Prince Tomislav, 29, now working as a fruit farmer; younger brother of ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia; at Schloss Salem, Baden, Germany...
...they banned her works. Invited to escape to the U.S., Kollwitz chose to remain in Germany, fearful that the Nazis would persecute her family if she left. In 1943, shortly before Allied bombers destroyed her Berlin home and most of her own collection, she moved to Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden, where she died...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...