Topic summary
Moltke
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Moltke family.
History
The von Moltke estate, a 500-hectare property and manor in what is today Krzyżowa, Poland (then a German territory known as Creisau or Kreisau), was purchased by Moltke the Elder with aid from Otto von Bismarck after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, which remained the Moltke family seat until 1945. Surviving dedications to the Moltkes' place at the manor include two stairway frescos painted on Moltke the Elder's 100th birthday in 1900; The Shame, depicting the fall of Lübeck in 1806, and The Revenge, depicting the victorious capture of Paris in 1871.