Humboldt-Schloss
Humboldt-Schloss—also known as Schloss Tegel—links Berlin’s landscape to the Humboldt family story. Before the classical rebuilding you see today, the site began with a Renaissance mansion built in 1558, later converted into a hunting lodge by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. In 1766, the Tegel estate passed to the Humboldts by marriage, and Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt spent much of their childhood here as the property extended almost to Lake Tegel. The present country house was built between 1820 and 1824, commissioned by Wilhelm von Humboldt to designs by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The estate’s park also has a layered authorship: it was first designed between 1777 and 1789 by their tutor Gottlob Johann Christian Kunth, then further developed from 1802 with plans by Peter Joseph Lenné. In 1983, the park received Denkmalschutz protection, and it even includes lakes about 7.8 metres deep near the house. …
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