 In 1865, he was created "Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen" (Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen) following the Prussian victory over Denmark in the Second War of Schleswig.Schönhausen was the Bismarck family's estate, in the Prussian province of Saxony.This hereditary comital title is borne by all of Otto von Bismarck's descendants in the male line.