House of Lippe
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The House of Lippe is the former reigning house of a number of small German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Principality of Schau
The princely castle at Detmold
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1942
Detmold Castle
Falkenburg Castle, Detmold
Lippe-Biesterfeld
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The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe.
House of Lippe
…by the main, Lippe-Detmold line. Alverdissen was bought back from Schaumburg-Lippe by Lippe-Detmold in 1812. In the 18th century, the cadet line of Lippe-Biesterfeld split from the Detmold branch, and shortly thereafter Lippe-Weissenfeld split from Lippe-Biesterfeld as a further cadet branch. Both, Biesterfeld and…
Biesterfeld estate in 1764
Lippe House at Oberkassel, Bonn, owned by the Lippe-Biesterfeld branch since 1770
Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (1871–1949), the first and only ruler of Lippe of the Biesterfeld branch
Reckenwalde palace, today Wojnowo in Poland, where Prince Bernhard spent his youth