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Eine grandiose Aussicht bei der Totenhalle.
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In dem cache befindet sich ein Geocoin mit dem ich dem FTF viel Spaß wünsche. Das Döschen hat Platz für Coins und kleine TB's und dient als Hin und Mit, wer jedoch Zeit hat sollte sich ein bisschen Proviant mitnehmen und die Aussicht genießen...
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Die Walhalla gilt als das Hauptwerk aller Kunstschöpfungen des bayerischen König Ludwig I. (1825-1848). Der Architekt Leo von Klenze erbaute sie in der Zeit vom 18.10.1830 (Grundsteinlegung) bis zum 18.10.1842 (feierliche Eröffnung) in gewollter Nachbarschaft zur ehemaligen »Freien Reichsstadt« Regensburg mit seinem gotischen Dom. Die Walhalla bildet mit der historischen Kulturlandschaft an der Donau ein sinnvolles und beziehungsreiches Ensemble.
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In 1807, 20-year-old Crown Prince Ludwig of the Kingdom of Bavaria, newly elevated by Napoleon, had the idea of reminding all Germans of their common heritage — of the great figures and events in ethnic German history. He commissioned several sculptors to create busts of famous individuals of his choice. Johann Gottfried Schadow's bust of Nicolaus Copernicus was among the first to be completed, in 1807. Further suggestions for individuals to be honored were solicited in 1808 from Swiss historian Johannes von Müller.
The building is noted to have cost £666,666 to construct according to 'Pictorial Travels Continentally Described' (circa 1892).
By the time of Crown Prince Ludwig's coronation as King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1825, 60 busts had been completed. In 1826 he commissioned the construction of a memorial above the Danube River, near Regensburg, modeled after the Parthenon in Athens. The southern pediment frieze features the 1815 creation of the German Confederation; the northern — scenes from the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest of 9 AD.[2]
At Walhalla's inauguration on October 18, 1842, there were 96 busts, plus 64 plaques for persons or events of which no portrait was available on which to model a sculpture. As being "of the German tongue" was the main selection criterion for the original 160 persons representing the 1,800 years of German history, the King included persons from, or who had been active in, modern-day Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and the Baltic States.
Whereas the Valhalla of Norse mythology was home to those gloriously slain in battle, Ludwig intended his Walhalla not only for warriors but also for scientists, writers, and clerics, and specifically included both men and women. Decades before the foundation of the German Empire in 1871, "German" was understood as "Germanic". Included were Gothic, Langobardic, Anglo-Saxon, Austrian, Dutch and Swiss German figures, as well as persons who had gained fame mainly in other countries or for non-German governments.
As successor to the King, the government of Bavaria decides on additions. Proposals may be made by anyone, but only persons who have been dead at least 20 years are eligible (this had been doubled in 1912). Only 31 busts have been added since its opening, on an irregular basis, for a total of 191, twelve of them female.
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