Charlottenburg Palace
Schloss Charlottenburg is a Baroque palace built for dynastic ambition as much as for display. The first version, named Lietzenburg, was commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, wife of Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, in the village of Lietzow. Designed by Johann Arnold Nering in Baroque style, it began as a single wing with a central cupola, and the palace’s inauguration was celebrated on 11 July 1699, Frederick III’s 42nd birthday. After Frederick I crowned himself as King in Prussia in 1701, he appointed royal architect Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe—sent to study Italy and France, including Versailles. Eosander then extended the palace, and by the later 18th century the complex expanded significantly, largely for Frederick the Great, adding lavish interior decoration in Baroque and Rococo styles. …
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