Service History
Upon her commissioning, Weissenburg was assigned to the I Division of the I Battle Squadron alongside her three sisters. The I Division was accompanied by the four older Sachsen-class armored frigates in the II Division, though by the time the four Brandenburgs returned from China by 1901–2, the Sachsens were replaced by the new Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleships.
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