Schloss Köpenick
Schloss Köpenick, or Köpenick Palace, is a Baroque water palace of the Hohenzollern electors of Brandenburg, set on an island in the Dahme River and encircled by an English-style park. Before the Baroque residence, the site held a Slavic castle dating to the 6th century, and in 1558 Elector Joachim II Hector ordered a hunting lodge on the foundations of a former medieval fort. Joachim II died here in 1571, and the palace later took on a distinctly European war-time role: in 1631 it served as the headquarters of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden during the Thirty Years’ War, when he unsuccessfully sought help from Elector George William. In 1677, Frederick I of Prussia rebuilt and enlarged the lodge, living here with his first wife, Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Kassel. The palace also became a stage for Prussian royal politics in 1730, when Frederick II and Hans Hermann von Katte faced court-martial there for desertion. …
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