Schloss Glienicke

Glienicke Palace was the summer palace of Prince Carl of Prussia. The castle in the middle of the Klein Glienicke Landscape Park is a central component of an ensemble of buildings from the first half of the 19th century that are significant in terms of architecture, art and culture and history UNESCO protection.

The current classicist form of the former manor house from 1753, with the claim of an Italian villa, goes back to conversions and extensions that the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel made in 1825. After Prince Carl's death in 1883, the building became increasingly neglected. During the Second World War it was used as a military hospital and after the war briefly as an officers' mess in the Red Army. From the 1950s, the castle and the adjoining buildings housed a sports hotel and from 1976 a home folk high school. Since the end of the 1980s, the castle has been used as a museum that displays Schinkel furniture and art objects, most of which come from Prince Carl. In April 2006, the first Hofgärtnermuseum in Europe opened in the west wing, which shows the history of the Prussian court gardeners.

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