The Hohenzollernlied (also Zollernlied) is the hymn of Hohenzollern, a historic country in the area of today's Baden-Württemberg.
The Hohenzollern song was distributed since about 1860. The melody is based on that of the French song Ma Normandie, where regionally in melody and rhythm slightly different versions are known. The song was written in 1849 by the then Oberpostpraktikanten Hermann Vitalowitz, when Hohenzollern fell by renunciation of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen to Prussia.
The focus of the song is the Zoller, a prominent mountain in the municipalities Hechingen and Bisingen on the edge of the Swabian Alb, on the Hohenzollern Castle is visible from afar.
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