Friedrichsruh

Friedrichsruh is a district in the municipality of Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

History

Friedrichsruh in 1915

After the victory over France and the establishment, in 1871, of the German Empire (Deutsches Reich), Otto von Bismarck received the Sachsenwald (Saxon forest) as a present from the Kaiser. Bismarck had a manor house built on the site of an inn, which Count Frederick Charles Augustus, sovereign count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, had originally founded as his hunting lodge in 1763, named after him Friedrichsruh (Frederick's rest). The manor house is positioned in the forest, directly beside the Hamburg-Berlin railway line, and Bismarck retained the name of Friedrichsruh. Some of his descendants still live there.

Bismarck was entombed in a mausoleum on the Schneckenberg hill, just outside of Friederichsruh, on March 16, 1899.

At the end of World War II, in 1945, Friedrichsruh was the headquarters of the White Buses rescue progamme.

External links

• Texts on Wikisource:
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)