The central dome of Charlottenburg Palace is topped by a gilded statue of Fortuna, spinning to show the wind's direction. Sophie Charlotte, the first Queen consort in Prussia, commissioned this summer residence in the late seventeenth…
Charlottenburg Palace Gardens
Walk through the grand French baroque parterres and romantic English-style woodlands of Berlin’s finest surviving Prussian palace grounds.
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1. Charlottenburg Palace
2. New pavilion in the palace garden of Charlottenburg
The Belvedere sits at the edge of the palace lake, a tall, narrow stone tower topped with a steep, copper-roofed dome. King Frederick William the second commissioned this structure in seventeen eighty-eight to serve as a private porcelain…
3. Belvedere im Schlossgarten Charlottenburg
The Belvedere in the Charlottenburg palace gardens is a small, rectangular teahouse topped with a copper dome that shines a distinct oxidized green. Built in seventeen eighty-eight for King Frederick William the second, it served as a…
4. Karpfenteich
The Karpfenteich in the Charlottenburg Palace gardens is a wide, rectangular basin of water framed by straight, gravel-lined banks. King Frederick the First commissioned this pond at the turn of the eighteenth century to provide carp for…
5. Mausoleum in the Palace Garden Charlottenburg
The Mausoleum at Charlottenburg is a small, Greek temple tucked into the edge of the palace gardens. It holds the white marble sarcophagi of Queen Luise and King Friedrich Wilhelm the Third. Luise died at thirty-four, and the King was so…
6. Kleine Orangerie
The Kleine Orangerie sits at the edge of the Charlottenburg Palace gardens, marked by a low, pale facade and large arched windows that stretch nearly to the ground. Built in the late eighteenth century, this building served as a winter…