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23 unusual facts about -Schwerin


Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

She died in Copenhagen as Dowager Queen of Denmark in 1952 and is interred next to her husband in Roskilde Cathedral.

Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

On 22 April 1657 her husband, by the terms of his father's will, received the towns of Weissenfels and Querfurt as his own Duchy, and hence Anna Maria became Duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Anna requested some Damask for a proper dress from the council, but the request was denied.

Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg

As a result the succession issue could not be resolved in time and the two Mecklenburg grand duchies became separate free states in the Weimar Republic.

Daniel Blok

Houbraken goes on to say that he made a genealogical and heraldic family tree for the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and went from being painter to becoming courtier, but he lost everything in a fire in 1651 during the Thirty Years War.

Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Charlotte Frederica allegedly affair with her singing teacher, Swiss-born singer and composer Édouard Du Puy, led on 8.11.1809 to her removal from the court.

Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Their other son, Robert, fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.

Erhard Altdorfer

In 1512, he went to Schwerin where Duke Henry V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1479–1552) appointed him court painter and architect.

Fokker D.III

Fokker built 210 D.III aircraft at its Schwerin factory before production ceased in the spring of 1917.

Fokker F.II

The prototype F.II, known by the company designation V.45, was constructed at the Fokker factory in Schwerin, Germany, and made its first flight there in October 1919.

Fokker F.III

KLM received 14 F.IIIs from Fokker's German factory at Schwerin during 1921 and built two more itself from spares in the following year.

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick married on 2 March 1746 at Schwedt to Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg, daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg, and his wife Margravine Henriette Marie of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

In the south it bordered with the Prussian province of Brandenburg (with the exclaves of Rossow and Schönberg near Wittstock) and in the southwest with the Amt Neuhaus district held by the Kingdom of Hanover, which was incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866.

HNLMS O 14

Just after entering service O 14 received a visit from Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Defence Minister on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service.

Ivan Törzs

In 1993 he became principal conductor of the Mecklenburgische Staatsoper Schwerin.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

He was often sent examples of rare birds to draw, and for his constant patron, the Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a famous series of animal portraits from the ducal menagerie (still at Schwerin).

Marie of Mecklenburg

Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1803–1862), daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and consort of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854–1920), daughter of Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Augusta of Reuss-Köstritz

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz became Grand Duchies in 1815.

As a result of this, Mecklenburg and Vorpommern were replaced by three districts covering roughly the same area: Bezirk Rostock, Bezirk Schwerin and Bezirk Neubrandenburg.

It also offers important historical cities, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Greifswald and Rostock as former Hanseatic cities - or Schwerin, Güstrow, Ludwigslust and Neustrelitz as former residences.

Princess Elisabeth of Denmark

Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin


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