A Bismarck tower (German: Bismarckturm) is a specific type of monument built according to a more or less standard model across Germany to honour its first...
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Look up Bismarck or bismarck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bismarck most often refers to: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian statesman and...
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Wiesbaden Bismarck Tower was one of approximately 240 monuments built in honour of Otto von Bismarck between 1869 and 1934. Wiesbaden's Bismarck Tower was the...
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The world's first Bismarck tower was erected by private initiative in 1869 in the village of Ober-Johnsdorf, Silesia, then part of Prussia (today Janówek...
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The Bismarck Tower (German: Bismarckturm) on the 497-metre-high Peterskopf in the Haardt mountains on the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest stands within...
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The Bismarck Tower located in Viersen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) was erected in honour of the chancellor Otto von Bismarck and has since become...
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The Aachen Bismarck Tower is one of 173 still-standing towers and columns (of the 240 originally built), which were constructed in the German Empire to...
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Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (German: Otto, Fürst von Bismarck, Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Herzog zu...
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Killesbergpark (section Killesberg tower)
directions. It was one of many towers built to commemorate Otto von Bismarck. The building of over 410 Bismarck towers worldwide was planned, and 238...
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The Bismarck Tower in Hanover, Germany was a tower erected as a monument to the first Chancellor of the united German nation Otto von Bismarck for patriotic...
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The Bismarck tower in Freiburg im Breisgau belongs to a series of towers that were built in honor of Otto von Bismarck, the first German chancellor. It...
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Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was...
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The sole surviving Bismarck tower in France can be found in the commune of Le Ban-Saint-Martin near Metz. The tower was erected in 1902 when the area was...
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voivodeship (Sosnowiec). The Bismarck tower survived for a little over a decade, and was briefly renamed the Freedom Tower, before Silesian voivode Michał...
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The Bismarck Tower (German: Bismarckturm) on the 268-metre (879 ft) high Stahlsberg above Opperode in Germany is a monument to the former German chancellor...
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of Bismarck. The first Bismarck Monument, a 12 metre high obelisk, was erected in 1868 in Gross-Peterwitz in Silesia. A year later, a Bismarck tower was...
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One of the many Bismarck towers built in the former German Empire (Kaiserreich) is located in Szczecin (Gocław), now in north-western Poland (known as...
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It is one of 240 memorials to Bismarck worldwide and is the largest and probably best-known of these Bismarck towers. The monument stands near the jetties...
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The construction of the Bismarck Tower located on the "Sinnberg", a hill in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen, started in 1914 following the plans designed...
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The Salzgitter Bismarck Tower is an observation tower completed in 1900 in Salzgitter, Germany. Unlike most other Bismarck towers, it does not consist...
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The Bismarck Tower in Zielona Góra, Poland (until 1945 Grünberg in Schlesien, Lower Silesia, Germany) is one of the best-preserved Bismarck towers outside...
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Heiligenberg (Heidelberg) (category Monuments to Otto von Bismarck)
Heiligenberg Tower was built in the 19th century as a lookout tower, using stones from the Monastery of St. Stephen. The Bismarck Tower was built in 1903...
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The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France...
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Bad Bertrich (redirect from Bismarck Tower (Bad Bertrich))
northeast of the village – cast-iron tower with pointed top, latter half of the 19th century. Substation tower, on the slope over the Osbach's right...
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The Bismarckturm ("Bismarck Tower") is a 28 metre high Bismarck monument. It is located on the Schlossberg north of Burg (Spreewald). About 1.5 million...
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suburb was Stettin-Gotzlow. The place became well known since a huge Bismarck tower had been built on top of a hill in the vicinity of the river Oder. Wikimedia...
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Hornisgrinde (section Observation tower)
an observation tower. However, it was inaccessible during the military use of the summit. In 2000 the tower (also called Bismarck tower) was reorganized...
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the site of the Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower, which stands on the site of a former Bismarck Tower, near the Bismarckburg Inn, the Schlageter Monument...
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Bismarck Memorial (German: Bismarck-Nationaldenkmal) is a prominent memorial statue in the Tiergarten in Berlin dedicated to Prince Otto von Bismarck...
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and Kallstadt continues to belong to Rhineland-Palatinate. Bismarck Tower – The Bismarck tower stands on the 497 m-high Peterskopf in an exclave belonging...
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