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Schloß Monbijou – Amtlicher Führer

12 Tuesday May 2020

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berlin, geschichte, history, hohenzollern, monbijou, preußen, prussia

Die Besessenheit für Schloß Monbijou geht weiter, ob als königlicher Palast oder Hohenzollern Museum.

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Es ist mir unglaublich, daß dieses Buch einst im Schloß war, und nur vor 90 Jahren. Es gibt Fotos, eine ausgearbeitete Beschreibung der Inhalte der einzelnen Räume, und einen schönen Grundriß.

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Monbijou Print

03 Friday Apr 2020

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berlin, hohenzollern, monbijou, preußen, prussia

I’m pleased with the small print I received yesterday of Schloß Monbijou, dating to about 1833, the downside is that due to this Corona lunacy the picture framer is closed until further notice.

Monbijouplatz and Modernity 

18 Saturday Mar 2017

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Well here I am in a hotel on Monbijouplatz on the 18th März, I knew the Schloß was no longer here but a plaque might have been nice. Same for In den Zelten; no sign it ever existed. I’m a little disappointed in the modern Germans, I know they want to forget the 1930’s but forgetting the 18th and 19th centuries seems like babies and bathwater (a German saying according to Carlyle I believe). 

On the upside, I’m writing this in the pub after eating Königsberger Klopse. 

*Edit: I may have been a little hasty, there is at least an information board… 

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The Defence of Schloß Monbijou

25 Wednesday Jan 2017

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1848, Books, german, heroes, prussia

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Although eventually heavily bombed in WWII and finally demolished in 1959, Schloß Monbijou could have been destroyed in 1848 were it not for the brave action of a young Prussian officer.

I believe this account is reasonably accurate; the reported speech is a mixture of the contemporary eyewitness account in the Deutsche Wehr-Zeitung (Jahrgang 1. 1-90) from 1849 and von Reibniz’s own account in Berlin 1848 by Karl von Prittwitz, commander of the troops in Berlin at the time, whilst I’ve also used a later and somewhat clearer military account from the 1890s: Die Straßenkämpfe in Berlin am 18. und 19. März 1848 by Hubert von Meyerinck to help clarify places and times. All from the original German, so far I’ve found no reference to the incident in English.

It’s 13:00 on the 18th March 1848. Amid the widespread disturbances occurring all over Berlin 36 year old Premierleutnant Eugen von Reibnitz, commanding 40 artillerymen and two junior officers of the Garde-Artillerie, is ordered from Oranienburger Tor, where the artillery barracks had already been set ablaze, to defend Schloß Monbijou, once a royal palace and now home to the Museum for National Antiquities. The building is guarded at the time by a small force of ten Grenadiers and a junior officer from the Kaiser Franz Regiment, together with two dragoons. The artillerymen had been trained on the previous three evenings at Monbijou by von Reibnitz in the use of their outdated weapons, for which they have no ammunition. The Grenadiers have decent weapons and ammunition however.

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Peter the Great in Berlin

26 Tuesday Nov 2019

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berlin, carlyle, fritz, geschichte, history, hohenzollern, monbijou, preußen, prussia, wilhelmine

Finally reading more of Carlyle’s History of Frederick the Great I was pleasantly surprised to find that Peter the Great of Russia begged to stay at Schloß Monbijou during his state visit in 1717 as he wanted some peace and quiet (Book IV, Chapter VII).  The Queen was apparently none too pleased and attempted to remove anything breakable (or is that poetic licence from Carlyle…). As with Königsberg I feel a strange affinity to the place, such a shame that the lovely palace by the river is now a nondescript park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The description of parts of the visit Carlyle takes from Wilhelmine of Prussia´s (Fritz´s older sister´s) memoirs so of course I had to buy a copy, in German selbstverständlich, not French, God forbid.

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