- Type
- Palace / château
- Built
- 1825 · 19th century
- Site origins
- 1750 per Wikidata – an earlier stronghold or first mention
- Style
- Neoclassical architecture
- Commissioned by
- Prince Charles of Prussia
- Architect
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedrich Ludwig Persius
- Heritage
- UNESCO World Heritage List
- Coordinates
- 52.4142°, 13.0953°
History
In the mid-18th century a modest manor house of the Klein Glienicke estate stood here; in 1814 it was bought by the Prussian chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg, for whom Peter Joseph Lenné began laying out the park. In 1824 the estate was acquired by Prince Carl, son of King Frederick William III and an ardent lover of Italy. In 1825–1827 Karl Friedrich Schinkel turned the house into an elegant palace in the manner of an Italian villa, and later, with his pupil Ludwig Persius, added a casino by the water, pavilions and a courtyard decorated with ancient fragments. After the Second World War the palace lay in West Berlin, right on the border with East Germany. Together with its park it belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin".
What to see
The white palace, set in a flower garden, is fronted by the Lion Fountain, whose gilded lions are modelled on the sculptures of the Villa Medici in Rome. The neighbouring landscape park contains the Große and Kleine Neugierde pavilions, the casino with its pergolas above the Havel, and the Klosterhof with fragments of medieval buildings brought from Italy. The palace shows interiors from the prince's time and a museum of the court gardeners.
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