Köpenick Palace
The Köpenick Castle is a castle in the center of the Berlin Köpenick hamlet.
- 3.1 baroque garden
- 3.2 Landscape Park
Geography
The castle is located near the mouth of the River Spree, Dahme on an island in the river Dahme not far from the old town center with its city hall of Köpenick. The island is connected by a bridge over the moat to the mainland. In the immediate vicinity is the long bridge that connects the Dahme- crossing the Köpenick old town and the castle island and the castle to the west or north-west newer neighborhoods and the center of Berlin.
Building
Prehistory and Early History
The later Castle Köpenick has been inhabited since prehistoric times and is next to Spandau and the Twin Cities Alt-Berlin/Cölln one of the earliest settlements in what is now the city of Berlin. Here later found Slavic ramparts, a Slavic castle was built in the 8th or 9th century. The Slavs Prince Jaxa of Köpenick ruled here in the 12th century. Several Nachfolgebauten followed, including a late medieval castle castle. 1245 the Ascanians conquered the castle island. The Slavs were resettled on the eastern banks of the Dahme, where they settled in a Kietz.
Renaissance hunting lodge
After the demolition of the old building (probably around 1550 ) led in 1558 Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, the construction of a hunting lodge in the Renaissance style. It was equipped with two residential wings and two defensive walls. Responsible was the architect William Zacharias. Little has been handed over this building; But size, arrangement and defense strength are likely to have been something more powerful than the surviving Hunting Lodge. Joachim died in 1571 in the vicinity during a hunting trip.
Baroque castle
For Crown Prince Frederick (later Elector Frederick III. Von Brandenburg, then King Frederick I of Prussia ) extended the castle from 1677 was. As an architect, this was Rutger van Langervelt, a native Dutchman from Nijmegen, responsible. The northern pavilion was built in the years 1679-1682. The architect Johann Arnold Nehring followed van Langervelt 1684 at the palace and let the business wing of the Reformed Church Castle ( inaugurated on January 6, 1685) and previously the farm gate ( 1682) arise. Friedrich lived in the castle later with his wife Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse - Kassel, which is said to have provided the impetus for the construction of the church.
In subsequent years, the plan was the establishment of a three -bladed system. The northern pavilion was complemented by a central wing, a southern pavilion had been rebuilt. The castle thus received its present form and was expanded to 1690.
In the years 1693-1695 work took place at the Corps de Logis, but the plan of a three-winged building was soon discarded.
The gallery was changed in 1750 by bricking up the arcades.
The two gatehouses were built from 1804 to 1806. 1884, the wainscot and a furnace of a ceremonial room from the Swiss Schlosshalde stone to the German Commercial Museum were (later Museum of Decorative Arts ) sold in Berlin. Later it was incorporated into the Castle Köpenick.
Current usage
Wilhelm Unverzagt led in 1938 an archaeological investigation. Here, among other things, a greater part of the foundations of the castle was exposed. Ironically, war and division of Berlin made the decentralized Castle is an ideal location for the then little- noticed arts and crafts. For the first time the museum was the castle in 1963.
In 1994 began extensive restoration work. This also old building parts were discovered. After completion of the renovation, the castle was re-opened on 27 May 2004 and is now home to the second house of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin next to its headquarters at the Cultural Forum, near the Potsdamer Platz. The permanent exhibition entitled Space art from the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo displays on three floors in 21 rooms, a cross section of features art from the 16th to the 18th century.
Adjacent to the church is home to the eastern building up a restaurant today.
Organ
In the Castle Church Concerts are regularly held. Our primary focus is also built in the historical baroque organ housing the organ builder means German organ building A. Voigt. The purely mechanical instrument has 14 stops on two manuals and pedal.
- Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P
Castle Park
Baroque garden
Around 1690 a small baroque garden was laid out to the south of the castle.
Caused a stir in the summer of 1712 an aloe ( Agave americana) with a height of about ten meters. She had 44 branches and 7277 flowers. The Agave went as " Wunderaloe " in the history of the castle park and was the Russian Czar Peter the Great admired as well as other important visitors of the park. From this time there are hardly any pictures or plans of the park.
Landscape Park
The previously located in a good condition Garden feral increasingly after the death of the Duchess Henriette Marie von Württemberg- Teck ( 1782 ). From 1804, therefore, the Baroque castle gardens under Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau has been transformed into a landscaped park. After the death Schmettaus Park went back to the crown and feral again.
In the years 1963/1964 a further change of the park took place. This historic designs, however, were not taken up, so that the castle park henceforth mediated an ahistorical image.
At least the woody vegetation has in the castle park Köpenick still points to the depression influences.
In the castle grounds there are several sculptures and plaques. The park invites you to stroll, his main path leads far from the water along, to which it offers a good view. In the middle of the park there is a large open space that allows an unobstructed view of the castle.
The courtyard is used particularly in the summer months for events and concerts.
Historical events
In addition to normal use as a residence and hunting lodge got a special meaning: