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Bismarck Tower (Bad Ems)
The Bismarck Tower of Bad Ems on the Lahn in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis of Rhineland-Palatinate was built in honour of the first Chancellor of Germany#Chancellor of the German Reich, German Chancellor, Fürst, Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898). Designed by architect Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), the tower stands east of the city centre on the Bismarckhöhe, is twelve and a half meters high, and was inaugurated in 1901. History Planning period After Bismarck's death in 1898, there was a widespread movement in the German Empire to erect monuments in honour of the former chancellor. In Bad Ems—where Otto von Bismarck had been an Honorary citizenship, honorary citizen since 1895—a group of his supporters proposed the construction of a Bismarck Tower in January 1900. Later that same year, it was decided to build the tower on a hill of the mountain ''Auf dem Klopp'', east of the city center, using the model design ''Götterdämmerung'' by architect Wilhelm Kreis. In 1899, Kreis w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BE Bismarckturm
BE or be may refer to: Linguistics * Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet * Be (interjection), ''be'' (interjection), in several languages * Be languages or Ong Be, a pair of languages of northern Hainan province, China * Belarusian language, ISO 639-1 code: be * Black English, or African-American Vernacular English, an English dialect * British English, abbr. BE, usually used in contrast to AE (American English) * ''Copula (linguistics)#English, To be'', the English copular verb Music Albums * Be (Beady Eye album), ''Be'' (Beady Eye album), 2013 * Be (Casiopea album), ''Be'' (Casiopea album), 1998 * Be (Common album), ''Be'' (Common album), 2005 * BE (Pain of Salvation album), ''BE'' (Pain of Salvation album), 2004 ** ''BE (Original Stage Production)'', a 2005 live album by Pain of Salvation * Be (BTS album), 2020 Songs * Be (Neil Diamond song), "Be" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single * "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from ''In This Skin'' * "Be", a song by Lenny Kra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
