Rhodt unter Reitburg, Reitburg Ruins and Ludwig I of Bavaria
Updated: 5 April 2012
Rhodt / Landau, Pfalz [Rhodt (Unter Riethburg)/ Suedliche Weinstrasse (= Southern Wine Road Dist.), n. Landau in der Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]
RHODT: Judy A. Remmick-Hubert Photo - 1991 / Fourth
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RHODT: Judy A. Remmick-Hubert Photo - 1991 / Fourth
Edition
13
Jan 2012
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Photo from the German Wikipeida
Schloss Villa Ludwigshoehe.jpg
Summer Residence of Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I was born 25 Aug 1786 and died 29 Feb 1868. He was a "German king of Bavaria" from 13 Oct 1825 to 20 March 1847. His father was Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph of Zweibruecken (Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria) and his mother was Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. When Ludwig I's uncle, Charles II, died 1 April 1795 Ludwig's father succeeded and on 16 Feb 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, Arch-Steward of the Empire and duke of Berg. On 1 Jan 1806 his father was given the title of King of Bavaria.
Despite Ludwig's father's strong alliance with Napoleon, and, too, there was the fact that his god father was the French King Louis XVI, he rejected the French alliance, however, he was in no position to deny Napoleon, and joined Napoleon's wars in 1806. He served under Marshal Francois Joseph Lefebvre in 1809 as commander of the 1st Bavarian Division in VIII Corps. He saw action with his division in the Battle of Abensberg on 20 April 1809. His father lived to 1825 and as his successor, he began to reunite parts of Palatinate with Bavaria.
He changed is royal titles to Ludwig, King of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, Duke in Swabia and Count Palatine of the Rhine.
During the Revolution of 1848, he unwilling abdicated on 20 March 1848 in favor of his eldest son, Maxilmillian.
He died 29 Feb 1868 at the age of 81 in Nice.
Apparently, the weather and the area suited the Bavarian King who built above Rhodt and Edenkoben and below the old ruins his summer villa known as Ludwigshoehe as seen driving toward the hills from Rhodt unter Riethburg..
LEAVING RHODT: Judy A. Remmick-Hubert Photo - 1991
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Above Rhodt unter Riethgurg and Edenkoben is the ruins of the old castle Rietburg on Blaettersberg, which is abt 550 m high, built by Hermann von Riet, who-- I am repeating the tale here -- in 1255 took Welf Queen Elisabeth, the wife of German King Wilhelm, hostage. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was destroyed and never rebuilt. There is a chairlift that will take you up to it or you can use the hiking trail. There is a restaurant Hoehengaststaette Reitburg which is quite popular.
See flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/potos/uempe/4971404975.