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thumb|right|Map thumb|Aerial image of the Herreninsel thumb|right|Schloss Herrenchiemsee Herreninsel (; old name: Herrenwörth) is a 238 hectare island in Bavaria's largest lake, Chiemsee. It is the biggest of the lake's three main islands, Fraueninsel and Krautinsel joining it to form the municipality of Chiemsee.

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thumb|right|Map thumb|Aerial image of the Herreninsel thumb|right|Schloss Herrenchiemsee Herreninsel (; old name: Herrenwörth) is a 238 hectare island in Bavaria's largest lake, Chiemsee. It is the biggest of the lake's three main islands, Fraueninsel and Krautinsel joining it to form the municipality of Chiemsee.

Herreninsel is famous for the Herrenchiemsee palace of Ludwig II of Bavaria. Never completed, it was only inhabited by the king for nine or ten nights before he mysteriously died of drowning at age 40.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herreninsel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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