Prussian and Hohenzollern Palaces, Castles and other Royal Residences

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by valeas

An Ard Ri, may I ask why you do not like the facade?
Simply the art does nothing for you or the political and historical explosive behind the "Fassade" which literraly means both the outiside of a building and the external impact of the prussian reign(hiding all it's controversial contens).
Thanks, interesting discussion here.

I think An Ard Ri was talking about the one part of the Fassade who was not rebuild original. And i have to say i agree with him on thhis.

[An Ard Ri]

Its the modern/contemporary façade I don't like at all I feel it looks really out pf place and leaves me cold a bit like the modern rebuilt Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

https://images.app.goo.gl/kVVa1aFE6TL8Z5HS9

[Blog Real]

The portrait gallery of the royal palace in Berlin in 1900.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ie_um_1900.png

[SirGyamfi1]

Originally Posted by MarcosFenn

A proverbial can of worms would also be opened up with regard to many propertied families in the former German Democratic Republic and in western Poland, whose properties were expropriated. While it makes for genuinely poignant family history, for people with titles linked to land in Poland especially can imply a calling into question of the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland.

When one speaks therefore of dynastic restitution of properties east of the former Iron Curtain, it is somewhat reminiscent of the situation of the post-Sandinista government in Nicaragua, when huge US companies incessantly demanded compensation for property in pre-Sandniista times to the extent of it becoming US foreign policy. (All the Sandinistas had to do was to say to the poverty-stricken Nicaraguan electorate: 'Look how the US is treating the government that is supposed to be its friend'; the Sandinistas were later elected to power: with an aura of legitimacy which the incessant demands for restitution by big corporations had ironically given them.)

If formerly reigning dynasties in parts of Eastern Europe ever hope to become established as popular and representative, then concern for the welfare of the common people needs to be a stance that is put way before issues of dynastic property restitution.

None of them are hoping to rule again nor are many of them hoping to rule

[SirGyamfi1]

Does anyone know if Georg-Friedrich owns the Prince’s house on the Prince’s island?

[Blog Real]

Originally Posted by SirGyamfi1

Does anyone know if Georg-Friedrich owns the Prince’s house on the Prince’s island?

Yup. The island of princes is still owned by the House of Hohenzollern.

Here you can see the official website of the island of princes:


https://www.prinzeninsel.de/

[SirGyamfi1]

Originally Posted by Blog Real

Yup. The island of princes is still owned by the House of Hohenzollern.

Here you can see the official website of the island of princes:


https://www.prinzeninsel.de/

I am asking if he owns the properties on the island because I saw a picture of house on it

[victor1319]

Originally Posted by SirGyamfi1

I am asking if he owns the properties on the island because I saw a picture of house on it

In Germany there is a real estate law different from the British: If you own the ground, the soil, you own everything on it. So, if the island is in Hohenzollern property, then so are the buildings.

[SirGyamfi1]

Originally Posted by victor1319

In Germany there is a real estate law different from the British: If you own the ground, the soil, you own everything on it. So, if the island is in Hohenzollern property, then so are the buildings.

Then he’s got good real estate there then. Unfortunately the dynasty had much of its properties in the East of Germany and in parts of what is now Poland. I highly doubt with the communists and leftists in Brandenburg that he will get any compensation.

[An Ard Ri]

The Prinzeninsel looks very picturesque and a nice holiday retreat!