Schloss Glienicke
Glienicke Palace—Schloss Glienicke—is a rare piece of Prussian design shaped by one man’s vision: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. He designed it around 1825 for Prince Carl of Prussia, transforming an earlier, more modest cottage into a late Neoclassical summer palace on Berlin’s Wannsee peninsula. This place matters beyond its elegance because it fed the story of how Prussia landscaped power. Since 1990, the palace and Park Glienicke have formed part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin,” recognized for their specific contribution to Prussian landscape architecture. In front of the south frontage, two golden lion statues catch the eye; Schinkel made them as versions of the “Medici lions” from Rome’s Villa Medici. Inside, Prince Carl collected antique objets d’art, brought back from his travels—art and architecture working together to project prestige. …
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