On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hohenzollern. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dynasty or royalty and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hohenzollern meaning
- The House of Hohenzollern: a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings, and emperors of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, and Romania.
- A mountain and castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, from which the family takes its name.
Using Hohenzollern
- The main meaning on this page is: The House of Hohenzollern: a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings, and emperors of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, and Romania. | A mountain and castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, from which the family takes its name.
- Useful related words include: dynasty, royalty, royal family, royal line.
- In the example corpus, hohenzollern often appears in combinations such as: of hohenzollern, the hohenzollern, hohenzollern family.
Context around Hohenzollern
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hohenzollern
- In this selection, "hohenzollern" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, took, casimir, burg, sigmaringen, family and hechingen stand out and add context to how "hohenzollern" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accordance with hohenzollern family custom and at burg hohenzollern the current. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hohenzollern" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hohenzollern
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Since then the family name has been Hohenzollern. (8 words)
The Hohenzollern Castle still belongs to the family today. (9 words)
This step made the Hohenzollern family one of the most important in Germany. (13 words)
A rise in construction commenced after the aristocracy followed the lead of the Hohenzollern emperors who began annual trips to Wiesbaden. citation The period around the turn of the 20th century is regarded as the heyday of the city. (39 words)
He was the first of the Hohenzollern kings of Romania to be born in the country (both of his predecessors were born and grew up in Germany and only came to Romania as adults). (34 words)
Some sixty years later the town (at that time a tiny village) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth ended up in the County of Kulmbach. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen after 1849 The family continued to use the princely title of Fürst of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1869 and still use the title of Prince of Hohenzollern.
Eitel Frederick IV took Hohenzollern with the title of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Karl II took Sigmaringen and Veringen, and Christopher got Haigerloch.
Not content with this, Paris demanded that Wilhelm, as head of the House of Hohenzollern, assure that no Hohenzollern would ever seek the Spanish crown again.
After they died out in 1260 the burgraves of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern took over the inheritance.
A rise in construction commenced after the aristocracy followed the lead of the Hohenzollern emperors who began annual trips to Wiesbaden. citation The period around the turn of the 20th century is regarded as the heyday of the city.
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is the current head of the royal Prussian line, while Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern is the head of the princely Swabian line.
Governed by the Hohenzollern dynasty from 1415, it contained the future German capital Berlin.
He also created artworks for emperor Maximilian I and for Margrave Casimir Hohenzollern von Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
He was replaced by Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1866, who mounted the throne as Carol I, Prince of Romania.
He was the first of the Hohenzollern kings of Romania to be born in the country (both of his predecessors were born and grew up in Germany and only came to Romania as adults).
In 1576, when Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern died, his county was divided to form the three Swabian branches.
It was the Electress Dowager, however, who, in accordance with Hohenzollern family custom, had the last word in bestowing her daughter's hand in marriage.
Margraves of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1535–1571) main The short-lived Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin was set up as a secundogeniture of the House of Hohenzollern.
Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was invited to become reigning Prince of Romania in 1866.
Since then the family name has been Hohenzollern.
Some sixty years later the town (at that time a tiny village) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth ended up in the County of Kulmbach.
The annexation of their state did not, however, mean the end of the importance of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
The Hohenzollern Castle still belongs to the family today.
The original black marble sarcophagus collapsed at Burg Hohenzollern—the current one is a copper copy.
This step made the Hohenzollern family one of the most important in Germany.
Common combinations with hohenzollern
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of hohenzollern 7×
- the hohenzollern 6×
- hohenzollern family 2×