Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne District
Kreis Düren
Langerwehe
Kaiser Wilhelm I Statue
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne District
Kreis Düren
Langerwehe
Kaiser Wilhelm I Statue
Hiking Highlight
Recommended by 141 out of 146 hikers
This Highlight is in a protected area
Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel
Location: Langerwehe, Kreis Düren, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
German emperor and king of Prussia
"... If history had taken a different course, Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia, later King Wilhelm I and later German Emperor Wilhelm I, would have had a little laudable entry in the history books as the" karting prince ". The second son of For a long time, King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Luise had little prospect of the royal throne, let alone the imperial crown, and yet when he died at the age of 90 he was so popular that the vernacular quickly became Richard Henrion's “Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch” In 1893, the verse was re-written “We want our old Kaiser Wilhelm back, but only the one with the beard, with the long beard.” And hundreds of monuments shot out of the ground, on the Kyffhäuser, at the Deutsches Eck, in Berlin and the largest of everyone at Porta Westfalica.
kaiser-wilhelm-porta.de/geschichte/wilhelm-i-vom-kartaetschenprinz-zum-kaiserdhm.de/lemo/biografie/biografie-wilhelm-i.html
June 4, 2020
This large landscape park is impressive. Unfortunately, large areas were cleared here too due to wind breaks and tree felling work
February 21, 2021
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