Wedding Roundup: Ernst-August and Ekaterina of Hanover

All the features about the wedding of Hereditary Prince Ernst-August of Hanover and Ekaterina Malysheva, right here:



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Russian Orthodox Church of St Elizabeth in Wiesbaden

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These days the last sovereign ruler of the Duchy of Nassau is most famous - Well, as famous as a historical ruler of Luxembourg can be - for also being the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg from the Weilburg branch of the House of Nassau. Before ascending to the grand ducal throne at the age of 73 after the House of Orange-Nassau had died out in male line, Grand Duke Adolph (1817-1905) had ruled the Duchy of Nassau until it was annexed by Prussia in 1866. Since 1816, the capital of said Duchy of Nassau had been Wiesbaden and so the capital of what is now the German state of Hesse is also the location of a church Duke Adolph built in memory of his first wife, née Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mikhailovna of Russia. Only a year after their wedding in 1844, Duchess Elisabeth died shortly after giving birth to a stillborn daughter. After two years of mourning, Duke Adolph decided to build a church in memory his late wife and stillborn daughter. The Russian Orthodox Church of St Elizabeth, w...
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Discovering Weissenfels: Nine Things to See When Visiting

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* This post is part of a paid partnership with the cities of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz. * Weissenfels, deep in the heart of Saxony-Anhalt, is a city full of contradictions. Old vs. new, fallen into ruins vs. beautifully restored. All of this is represented most in the castle towering high above in the town south-west of Leipzig: Schloss Neu-Augustusburg . While half of it, at least from the exterior, shines in new splendour, the other half is falling into ruins. It is a fascinating contrast you will find all over this historically rich little town. Once the residence of the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels, it later became the number one shoe-manufacturing city of the German Democratic Republic. As so many places, the aftermath of unification left a lasting mark on Weissenfels with many especially young people moving away to find work elsewhere, and houses left empty. But you will find as many rays of hope here, so let's delve deeper into the things not to miss when visiting Weisse...
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Schloss Fuschl

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Today I am going to tell you a story. The story of an eleven-year-old girl who went to Schloss Possenhofen in Bavaria with her parents and was utterly disappointed. Why? Because it looked nothing like she had imagined. The young girl grew up religiously watching the "Sissi" movies for every Christmas since she can remember. However, the real life Possenhofen looked nothing like the movie version. That was, of course, because the movies weren't filmed at the actual childhood home of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Instead, a certain Schloss Fuschl was chosen as the director thought it looked much more romantic and fairytale-like. Probably not very surprisingly, the girl in this story is actually me - and more than 15 years on I actually managed to see my real Possenhofen better known as  Schloss Fuschl in Austria's Salzkammergut region. It was on the way back from the Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl to Bavaria that we made a quick stop nearby to catch a glimpse of ...
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