Kronprinzenpalais
The Kronprinzenpalais—“Crown Prince’s Palace”—began in the 1660s as a private residence on Unter den Linden, built by Johann Arnold Nering between 1663 and 1669. Nering’s work converted an existing middle-class house for Johann Martitz, a Cabinet Secretary, tying this spot to Berlin’s early administrative elite. In 1732, Philipp Gerlach remodelled the building in Baroque form, giving it a protruding central bay and a carriage drive that rose to the front entrance—changes meant for royal life, not offices. The palace became the residence of the Crown Prince, Frederick (later Frederick II), whose household used it intermittently before his accession in 1740, after which he lived there as part of the royal complex. From 1919 to 1937, it housed the modern art collection of the National Gallery. …
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