Friedrichsruh
Appearance
Friedrichsruh is a district in the municipality of Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.
History
After the victory over France, Otto von Bismarck was awarded the Sachsenwald. He ordered to turn an inn near the Hamburg-Berlin railway line into a manor and called it Friedrichsruh. Some of his descendants still live there. Bismarck was entombed in a mausoleum on the Schneckenberg, just outside of Friederichsruh, on March 16, 1899. In World War II Friedrichsruh was the headquarter of the White Buses.
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