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Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg is in the Ruppinerland region about 75 km (45 miles) northwest of Berlin. It is an area rich in lakes and waterways, similar to the lakes area of adjacent Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The main cultural sights are in Rheinsberg, where Frederick the Great lived as a student.
Sightseeing in Rheinsberg
Apart from the lakes, the main sights in Rheinsberg are the Schloss (Palace) and Park Rheinsberg. Frederick the Great spent four years here before being crowned King of Prussia in 1740. The Schloss was adapted for the crown prince’s use and the interior has excellent examples of early Frederican Rococo as well as early Classical elements.
Rheinsberg Park was laid out by Frederick in a late Baroque style, but his brother Heinrich, who lived here from 1752 until his death in 1802, expanded the garden and modeled it as one of the first sentimental landscape gardens in Germany.
A tour of the palace includes five of the rooms designed by Frederick and left unchanged by his brother. The hall of mirrors and the anterooms with painted ceilings are particularly worth seeing. Asmall museum dedicated to the nationalist writer Kurt Tucholsky, whose works were banned by the Nazis, is located inside the palace.
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