Three Emperors' Corner
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Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint at the confluence of the Black and White Przemsza rivers, near the towns of Mysłowice, Sosnowiec and Jaworzno in the present-day Silesian Voivodeship of Pol
Three Emperors' Corner today: Before 1918 the left side of this scene was German, the middle Russian and the right side Austro-Hungarian
Postcard, c. 1907: Nicholas II of Russia, Wilhelm II of Germany, Franz Joseph I of Austria and the Bismarck tower in Mysłowice
Bismarck tower
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A Bismarck tower is a specific type of monument built according to a more or less standard model across Germany to honour its first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. A total of 234 of these towers were i
Three Emperors' Corner
…tourist spot, particularly from the German Empire. Two riverboats toured its vicinity, and in 1907, the German authorities had a 22 m (72 ft)-high Bismarck tower erected on the Przemsza shore according to the standard Götterdämmerung design by Wilhelm Kreis. As reported in contemporary newspapers, between 3,000…
First Bismarck Tower in Janówek, Poland (formerly Ober-Johnsdorf, Lower Silesia, Germany), built in 1869
Bismarck Tower in Zielona Góra (formerly Grünberg, Silesia, Germany)
1909 Bismark tower in Jena
Illuminated Götterdämmerung tower