Here’s an alternate version with the tiles angled to follow the walls in the keep.
I was going to explain all the things that aren’t accurate about this map, but it’d take forever and it doesn’t matter anyway, so let me just give you the short version:
- Only the bottom and upper two floors of the keep were finished and the unfinished floors currently contain a gift shop and a cafeteria. Since I thought that might spoil the mood a bit, I took some liberties and drew in what was intended to be there: servants’ quarters, guest rooms and a “Moorish hall.”
- The cellar is in the right place, but I couldn’t find a floor plan, so I made some stuff up. I was tempted to draw a dungeon, but there is no way there’s a dungeon in there.
- Nothing about this map conveys the ludicrous degree of splendor in the finished parts of this castle. It really is jaw-dropping. Have a look.
Anyway, I hope you like it. There’s an annotated version of this map with 83 rooms numbered and labeled, as well as all the usual stuff, available to patrons.
Love this! I had the chance to visit the real one in Germany and I’ve wanted to incorporate this castle in my world for a while now. Nice job!
Hi, do you mind answering how big your squares are related to real life? like 1 square meter or bigger?
1.5 meters (5 feet) per square. It’s the same for all my maps, unless marked otherwise.
Yeah, I just noticed this about the alternate version.
The bottom level of the keep, the diagonal part that you changed the tile orientation for. It uh, it’s not consistent with itself. Bottom level is 11 squares wide with interior floor space alone, 12 if you count the wall thickness. Then for some reason all of the keep floors above that are 10 squares of floor width, what gives? And I know the upper floors aren’t supposed to be smaller, I can tell that by looking at the regular version.
I’m not really sure what I did there. It wasn’t intentional, anyway.
Would it be too much to make a quick fix? I don’t want to burden you, it would just help to do that so I can build it in minecraft
Sorry, I don’t think I’m gonna be able to make time for that.
Okay, it took some photo grid manipulation but I am indeed going to attempt to make the Neuschwanstein map.
Maybe I’ll have it done by Christmas
I built this in MC, took me about three years including moving mountains to make the valley big enough! Still, it’s probably at 70% scale.
That’s awesome! I’d love to see a screenshot if you’ve got one.
I was told by my high school German teacher that there are tunnels with water running in them under the castle. Anyone heard of this?
I haven’t heard about that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were. There are probably sewage tunnels, if nothing else.
I went there in 1978 when I was 6 and wanted to see the dungeon but apparently there isn’t one. It was fun anyway. That was a great vacation.
Clarification needed.
What is the situation with the narrow staircase that double back on itself just to the right of the left-most grand hall?
It appears to connect level 5 and 6 but it looks like the room was duplicated without accounting for the different in position of the stairway connections from one floor to the other.
It was probably either a mistake or it was shown that way on the floor plan I used as a reference to draw the map. Either way, it’s probably wrong.
hello!, i loves this map and i am planning on making a scale model of this castle for my uni course! how did you get the measurements of this castle, knowing how many feet each part is? or did you make it up to make it playable
anything would be a great help!
I don’t recall how I got the measurements. I probably used a scale on a floor plan to figure it out.