August 9’th 1854 King Friedrich August II. of Saxony Weimar had a deadly accident at this place. He died from a deadly hoofbeat after he fell off the carriage he was travelling on. Some days before he and the Habsburg Brothers Emperor Franz Joseph I. of Austria, Arch-Duke Karl Ludwig and Maximilian went on a hike up on the Patscherkofel Mountain at Innsbruck. Friedrichs wife/widow Maria Anna von Bayern (daughter of Wittelsbacher King Maximilian I. of Bavaria; called Marie in the family) built the chapel after the event. Russia and the Communist Party took over the rule in Saxony (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, East Germany) after WWII. The head of the house Wettiner 1960 at that time, Friedrich Christian of Saxony, Margrave at Meißen decided to determine this little homestead in Austria as burial site of the Wettiner. Dresden in Saxony, at that time, was no option. King Friedrich died in a neighboring inn and the room can still be seen, even some of the blood.
Today the site with streets, bridges, trucks, cars and trains is one of the ugliest and loudest places imaginable. Just like Stevenage or Ludwigshafen.
Remote cousin of Friedrichs wife Maria V o n Bayern, King Ludwig II. of Bavaria 1864 incognito visited the chapel. During an extensive equestrian tour across mountain ranges. (Ammergebirge, Karwendel) Using the “Fernpass”. A challenging tour which shows his fitness. And his affection to equestrian sport and swimming which connected him with his Cousin Elizabeth, empress of Austria. (Sisi, Wittelsbacher Princess I N Bavara)
He had several famous horses he had dinner with:
Cosarara (the dinner event took place outside in front of a side building of castle Linderhof and was documentet with a painting)
Soliman (the dinner event took place inside the Castle Linderhof in the famous dining room with one of the Tischleindeckdich Tables (liftable from the kitchen underneath). Soliman was not amused and left a stinking souvenir in the dining room. King Ludwig was amused.
And:
Cocotte who was given to Richard Wagner to appear in the first performance of “Götterdämmerung” as the Nordic Horse Grani. Grani was the son of Sleipnir, the horse of Odin which has 8 legs. We saw its trace in Iceland in the Ásbyrgi Canyon. This Götterdämmerung was the first performance, which ain’t over till the fat Lady sings.
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