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3 unusual facts about House of Bismarck


House of Bismarck

By a 1562 agreement with the Hohenzollern margraves, the Bismarcks swapped Burgstall with Schönhausen, located east of the Elbe river and formerly part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which also had been under Hohenzollern rule since 1513.

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto von Bismarck.

Wilde, Buenos Aires

The section of the today house the Park Dominico was purchased by a German family and eventually reached the hands of Mercedes von Bismarck whom before her death donated the land to the church for the creation of a park for the youth that at a time was named “Geodesia” and today is known as “Parque Dominico” for the Dominican Monastery that housed the administration.



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