Schönhausen Palace
Schloss Schönhausen—known in English as Schönhausen Palace—is a Baroque palace formed from a rural estate that sits beside gardens crossed by the Panke river. The story begins in 1662, when Countess Sophie Theodore acquired the lands of Niederschönhausen and Pankow, and in 1664 she built a “Dutch”-style manor there. Ownership then passed to the Hohenzollerns: in 1691, her sale to Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg brought the property into Brandenburg-Prussian hands. Frederick III had it remodeled into a palace between 1691 and 1693, and later, in 1704, King Frederick I contracted Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe to enlarge the palace and its gardens. The palace also held political theatre—Frederick III prepared plans for his coronation in August 1700 at Schönhausen. …
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