The statesman Otto von Bismarck received Schönhausen II Palace back for his 70th birthday as part of a public fundraising campaign. Today it is a civic center with, among other things, a wedding room.
In addition to Schönhausen I, there was a second estate, appropriately named Schönhausen II, with a manor house built in 1729. In 1830, this estate was sold to the Magdeburg city councilor and entrepreneur Ernst August Gaertner due to over-indebtedness. (When Bismarck moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1851, Gaertner also took over the office of dike captain from him). On the occasion of the Reich Chancellor's birthday in 1885, a festive committee organized the repurchase of the house via the collection of a so-called "Ottopfennig" - in allusion to the papal "Peterspfennig".
This brought the lost property back into the possession of the family, who established the first Bismarck Museum in it. From 1950 to 2005 - most recently as the "Otto von Bismarck" secondary school - the building in today's Bismarckstraße served education.
Since 2012, Schönhausen II Palace has been a civic center, including a wedding room, event hall and club rooms.
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