. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. seventeenth century. His own mural inscription, erected by hisson, is at a little distance, but it is far inferior in execution. Un-der these memorial tablets is placed, in a style of the utmost sim-plicity, that of the mother of our Minister-President. The mansion of the Bismarcks is close to the church. It isentered by a gateway with walled railings, having to its left thefarm building, and in front of it a tall and handsome lime-tree, THE MANSION OF SCHONHAUSEN. 85 which, as it were, marks the boundary between the offices andthe special courty
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. seventeenth century. His own mural inscription, erected by hisson, is at a little distance, but it is far inferior in execution. Un-der these memorial tablets is placed, in a style of the utmost sim-plicity, that of the mother of our Minister-President. The mansion of the Bismarcks is close to the church. It isentered by a gateway with walled railings, having to its left thefarm building, and in front of it a tall and handsome lime-tree, THE MANSION OF SCHONHAUSEN. 85 which, as it were, marks the boundary between the offices andthe special courtyard of the mansion. At a few paces from thelime stands a sandstone vase, and we then find ourselves in frontof the house where Bismarck was It is a plain, massive, quadrangular building of the last fewyears of the seventeenth century, the enormous foundation-wallsof which date from the early castle first inhabited by the Bis-marcks: this was ravaged and burnt during the Thirty YearsWar. The house is in two stories, with a high roof. On theright a wing is built out, extending as far as a sandstone park begins on the left with, magnificent alleys of chestnutsand limes. The doorway is as simple as the house, without steps or shield above it bears on the right the arms of the Bismarcks,and on the left those of the Kattes—the cat with the inscription to the right is August von Bismarck, that on theleft is Dorothea Sophia Katte, anno 1700. Round the corner, by a door leading to the garden, the housecan be entered through a handsome and spacious garden ceiling of this room is decorated with the armorial bearings. This ground-floor leads into a large hall, whence there is aheavy, broad, a
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