HALL OF SINGERS
Discover the halls of Neuschwanstein Castle
The Singers’ Hall of Neuschwanstein Castle is a place of great charm and mystery, a tribute to the king’s love for music, chivalry and medieval sagas. A place that is definitely worth a visit during your trip to Ludwig II’s Fairytale Castle.
The Singers’ Hall was one of King Ludwig II’s dearest projects, and next to the Throne Room, it is considered the most important room in the castle.
This room combines two historic rooms of the Wartburg: the Festival Hall and the Singers’ Hall. It is here that the famous singers’ ceremony is believed to have taken place, an event which was also thematized in Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhäuser”.
The room is dominated by a singers’ pergola, separated from the rest of the space by steps and three orders of columns. The figurative program of the room, however, does not show the singers’ certainty, but the saga of Parsifal and the Holy Grail. The pergola, which serves as a stage, is painted with a sylvan landscape, representing the sacred forest around the fortress of the Holy Grail.
Despite its grandeur, the Singers’ Hall has never been used for large banquets or musical performances. Ludwig II built this hall as a monument to medieval chivalric civilization and the world of sagas. From his youth, Tannhäuser, Parsifal and Lohengrin were figures with whom the king identified.