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Apr 22, 2020 · In our latest article we are heading to the very heart of early modern Europe, as we discuss the most famous German noble family, the House of Hohenzollern. This noble house rose to all possible heights of the time, and has lent their men and women to some important positions – electors, princes, kings and even emperors.
The ancestral home of the House of Hohenzollern, Swabia, Germany. The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince-electors, kings, and emperors of Prussia, Germany, and Romania. It originated in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the eleventh century.
The House of Hohenzollern ( / ˌhoʊənˈzɒlərn /, US also /- nˈzɔːl -, - ntˈsɔːl -/; German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of ...
The illustrious Hohenzollern Castle in Swabia is a prominent historical monument to a dynasty that has written history. This was the seat of the Brandenburg-Prussian rulers, Prussian kings and Germany's kaisers.
Explore first hand the wondrous history of the royal house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern Palace. It is not only the magnificence, splendor and grandeur that make the guided tours walks through living history, but also the people who lived, loved, and dreamed within these historic walls.
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The ruling house of Brandenburg - Prussia, the House of Hohenzollern is most famous for providing rulers of the kingdom of Prussia and later of the German empire. The ancestral home of the House of Hohenzollern is in Swabia near the sources of the Danube and Neckar Rivers, about eighty miles south of today's Stuttgart.
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.
