Events in the year 1885 in Germany.
The Benz Patent Motorwagen was built in 1885
The Reitwagen (riding car), the first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised
1885 in Germany
…Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe…
Schloss Weimar, the ducal palace
Wartburg Castle near Eisenach
The former Ducal Palace of Eisenach, finished in 1748 by Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Grand Duke Charles Alexander (1853–1901). He joined the German Empire with his duchy in 1871 and rebuilt the world-famous Wartburg as a national monument.