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Hohenzollern may refer to:
- House of Hohenzollern, German dynasty which ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, Germany, and Romania, among other states
- County of Hohenzollern, the ancestral possession of the dynasty
- House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a cadet branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty
- House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, the seniormost branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty
- House of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch, medieval German county
- Burg Hohenzollern, Swabian castle and ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern dynasty
- Province of Hohenzollern (1850-1952), Prussian province
- Hohenzollern, yachts of the German Emperors
- House Order of Hohenzollern, chivalric order
- Crown of Wilhelm II, also known as the Hohenzollern Crown
- Hohenzollern Locomotive Works, a German locomotive-building company
Hohenzollern is a mountain, 855 m, of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in Zollernalbkreis. On its top the famous Hohenzollern Castle is located. The mountain is a outlier, about 1 km north of the Swabian Jura.
Category:Mountains and hills of the Swabian Jura Category:Bisingen Category:Hechingen
Usage examples of "hohenzollern".
Henry Ford, it was noted, ignored the Hohenzollern monarchists and put his money into the Hitlerite revolutionary movement.
Hitler would open the new Reichstag, which he was about to destroy, in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, the great shrine of Prussianism, which aroused in so many Germans memories of imperial glories and grandeur, for here lay buried the bones of Frederick the Great, here the Hohenzollern kings had worshiped, here Hindenburg had first come in 1866 on a pilgrimage when he returned as a young Guards officer from the Austro-Prussian War, a war which had given Germany its first unification.
Hitler was looking ahead for power not only in Bavaria but eventually in the Reich, and to hold and exercise that power a dictatorial regime such as he already envisaged needed to constitute itself as a strong centralized authority, doing away with the semiautonomous states which under the Weimar Republic, as under the Hohenzollern Empire, enjoyed their own parliaments and governments.
They had first foregathered in the cold grey dawn at the frontier line, where the presiding eagle takes on an extra head and Teuton lands pass from Hohenzollern to Habsburg keeping--and where a probing official beak requires to delve in polite and perhaps perfunctory, but always tiresome, manner into the baggage of sleephungry passengers.
Then he came back to the American side of the island, crossed close to the crumpled aluminium wreckage of the Hohenzollern to Green Islet, and scrutinised the hopeless breach in the further bridge and the water that boiled beneath it.
If after a complete victory we are to bolster up the Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, and their relations, set up a constellation of more cheating little subordinate kings, and reinstate that system of diplomacies and secret treaties and secret understandings, that endless drama of international threatening and plotting, that never-ending arming, that has led us after a hundred years of waste and muddle to the supreme tragedy of this war, then the world is not good enough for me and I shall be glad to close my eyes upon it.
In Konigsberg, chief city of the region, the first Hohenzollern sovereign had been crowned King of Prussia in 1701.