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Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. [a] The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The castle stood on Fishers' Island, as the southern end of the Museum Island in the Spree is known. In 1443 Frederick II "Irontooth", Margrave and Prince Elector of Brandenburg , laid the foundations of Berlin's first fortification in a section of swampy wasteland north of Cölln.
Berlin Cathedral bells ringing. Berlin Cathedral (German: Berliner Dom), also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) on the Museum Island in central Berlin.
Hohenzollern r. 1869–1885 1811–1885: Frederick III German Emperor King of Prussia r. 1888 1831–1888: Leopold Prince of Hohenzollern r. 1885–1905 1835–1905: Charles I Domnitor of Romania r. 1866–1881 King of Romania r. 1881–1914 1839–1914: Romanian Branch: William II German Emperor King of Prussia r. 1888–1918 1859–1941 ...
Across the street of the palace are two more museums, the Bröhan Museum, which contains Art Nouveau and Art Deco articles, and the Berggruen Museum, which houses modern art, in particular works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. [15] On the left is the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection.
Museum interior view (room 27), undated. The museum survived the abolition of the monarchy in Germany in 1918. Its inventory remained in the possession of the dynasty but it was administered by the state, which made Monbijou Palace available for the purpose and assumed responsibility for maintaining the museum in the traditional way.
Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire, until the end of World War I. It is famous for having been the location of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, in which the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States made important decisions ...
Die Schlösser und Gärten der Hohenzollern. Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln 1996, ISBN 3-89508-238-4; Waltraud Volk: Potsdam. Historische Straßen und Plätze heute. 2nd edition, 1993. Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin-München 1993, ISBN 3-345-00488-7