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The sailor’s home of the Hohenzollern family

Emperor WIlhelm II was most enterprising; his subjects mockingly called him the “Reisekaiser” (“travelling emperor”). By land and by sea he travelled for an average of 200 days every year. With his steam-powered yacht “Hohenzollern” he cruised the Mediterranean to Corfu, Italy, Turkey or Palestine. He particularly enjoyed his journeys to the Nordic countries and had his sailors station on the bank of the Jungfernsee rebuilt in the Norwegian dragon style. The architect who selected a restaurant in Kristiania as his model, had the building’s parts prefabricated in Norway before they were put together in Potsdam.
From “Kongnaes”, i.e. “the king’s land tongue”, the imperial family happily cruised to their Berlin palace on theirsalon steamers. For the mini frigate “Royal Louise” the sailor’s station served as her home port.