Köpenick Palace

Coordinates: 52°26′38″N 13°34′22″E / 52.44389°N 13.57278°E / 52.44389; 13.57278
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Köpenick Palace
Köpenick Palace
Köpenick Palace
Köpenick Palace
Köpenick Palace, Berlin

Schloss Köpenick (English: Köpenick Palace) is a

Dahme River surrounded by an English-style park and gives its name to Köpenick, a district of Berlin
.

The castle was originally built on the foundations of a Slavic castle (6th century) in 1558 as a hunting lodge by order of

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, where he - without results - asked his brother-in-law Elector George William for assistance in the Thirty Years' War
.

Berlin State Museums
.

Since 1963, Köpenick Palace has been used by the Kunstgewerbemuseum as an exhibition space. Being renovated in 2004, the palace accommodates museum of arts with the permanent exhibition "RoomArt", featuring the decorative arts of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. The museum also presents the outstanding masterworks in interior design from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Further reading

The palace church

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