Bellevue Palace, Germany
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Bellevue Palace | |
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Schloss Bellevue | |
General information | |
Architectural style | Neoclassical |
Town or city | Spreeweg 1 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 52°31′03″N 13°21′12″E / 52.51750°N 13.35333°E |
Construction started | 13 October 1785 |
Completed | 1786 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Michael Philipp Boumann |
Bellevue Palace (
Overview
Designed by architect Michael Philipp Boumann (1747–1803), Schloss Bellevue was erected in 1786 as a residence for
In 1843, King
The
In 1986–87, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker had the interior of the palace completely redesigned by the architect Otto Meitinger in order to adapt the rooms to the character of the external historical appearance, whereby the sequence of rooms was also restored according to plans from the time before the destruction. Weizsäcker had the palace furnished with part of the valuable Empire style furniture collection from Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel as a permanent loan and initiated the exchange of paintings with German museums in order to present guests with classical and modern German art. However, two rooms have been preserved with their furnishings in the style of post-war modernism. In 1994, after German reunification, Weizsäcker made it his primary residence.
A modern oval office building was built in 1998 in a section of the park near the palace to house the offices of the affiliated Bundespräsidialamt ("Office of the Federal President"), a federal agency.
Presidential standard
Contrary to popular belief, the
Großer Tiergarten statues
In 1945, according to testimony reported in the 1995 documentary film On the Desperate Edge of Now, Berlin citizens buried statues of historical military figures from the Großer Tiergarten in the grounds of the palace to prevent their destruction. They were not recovered until 1993.[1]
Gallery
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Nightime view of Bellevue Palace
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The Federal Presidency's oval office building from the Victory Column. The palace and Moabit quarter in the background.
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President Christian Wulff receiving Pope Benedict XVI
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Presidents Barack Obama and Joachim Gauck at Bellevue, in the background a version of Graff's portrait of Frederick the Great
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Military reception of Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa by Gauck with the Wachbataillon
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Festival for citizens in the Palace Gardens (2019)
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The Oval Ballroom (by C. G. Langhans) on the upper floor
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Schinkel-Room
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Dinner tables in the Great Hall
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Ceremonial office with bust of Friedrich Ebert, first president of the Weimar Republic, and a painting of the Weimar courtyard of the muses by Theobald von Oer (1860)
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Salon Ferdinand
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Salon Louise
See also
References
- ^ "On the Desperate Edge of Now", from The Living Dead by Adam Curtis (BBC, 1995).
External links
- Official Website
- Berlin Tourism
- Panoramas and other images of the Schloss Bellevue in Berlin
- Bundeswehr – Großer Zapfenstreich 1/4, the Großer Zapfenstreich ceremony for the President of Germany at Bellevue.