He already had a commercial presence in the area, as he ran a "sport and seminar" center which offered river rafting, mountain biking, paragliding, and golf.
[6] A bureaucratic mistake during initial plans four-year previously left one piece of land available for commercial development in 2001, a fact that Max Emanuel was able to take advantage of.
[7] With a seat on the council as a Christian Social Union member, he proceeded with plans for a scaled-down leisure complex of 50 rooms and a six-hole golf training course, which the Bavarian state parliament ruled to be legal.
[4] As a result of these new plans, efforts were quickly underway by various groups, such as the Bavarian Society for the Protection of Nature, to declare the castle and surrounding land a World Heritage Site.
[4] Construction plans still remain in limbo today; in 2006, Porsche Automobil Holding SE acquired the property, intending to continue the project.