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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Ch?teau de Charlottenburg > Outdoor Architecture
Outdoor Architecture
Schloss-Charlottenburg
Ch?teau de Charlottenburg
Outdoor Architecture
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Courtyard (4)
Ehrenhof
between 1695 and 1699

Old Palace (5)
Altes Schloss
between 1695 and 1712
Initially, under the name of Lietzenburg, the palace was constructed in the Italian Baroque style by the architect Arnold Nering commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Friedrich III, Elector of Brandenburg.

New Wing
Neuer Flügel
between 1740 and 1746
The New Wing at the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin houses the Gallery of Romanticism.


Belvedere (1)
Tea House
between 1789 and 1790
Friedrich Wilhelm II liked to escape to the romantic Belvedere, a summer residence built in 1788 by Carl Gotthard Langhans, which served as a tea pavilion. Today it houses a collection of precious Berlin porcelain objects.

Mausoleum
1810
The mausoleum was originally the resting place of Queen Luise, the wife of Friedrich Wilhelm III. Following the death of Friedrich, Queen Luise's tomb was moved to make room for her husband's tomb.

Museum of Prehistory
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
The museum is housed in the Langhans Wing (West Wing), in what was originally the palace theater. Although much important material (including part of Schliemann's finds from Troy) was lost during the Second World War.

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