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Schönhausen Palace

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Location: Berlin, Germany

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1. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Greifswalder Straße

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2. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Greifswalder Straße

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3. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Pankow

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VfB1897

May 15, 2024

Schönhausen Palace served as a guest house during the GDR era. Today it houses a museum.

Further information: spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/objekt/schloss-schoenhausen

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Lemmi alias Schlumpf

December 21, 2019

The palace is surrounded by a park through which the Panke river flows. The palace gained historical significance during the reign of Frederick the Great as the summer residence of Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia and as the official residence of Wilhelm Pieck, the first (and only) President of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Schönhausen Palace has been open to visitors as a museum since December 19, 2009.

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Tourismusverein Berlin-Pankow e.V.

January 16, 2020

The baroque palace, which was hardly damaged in the Second World War, was confiscated by the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) in the summer of 1945. The former café in the southern part of the ground floor became an officers' casino, and another part became a school and boarding school for the children of Soviet officers stationed in Berlin and the surrounding area. The palace, which was the main residence of Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia (wife of Frederick the Great) in the 18th century, also appealed to the new masters as a place of representation. In 1946, KPD official Wilhelm Pieck, who had returned from Soviet exile, celebrated his 70th birthday here. In 1949, the SMAD handed the palace over to him, now President of the newly founded GDR, as his official residence. It retained this function even after Pieck's death in 1960, when the GDR replaced the presidential office with a Council of State. From 1965, Schönhausen Palace became a government guest house and housed numerous high-ranking Soviet officials, including Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. In June 1990, Shevardnadze was one of the negotiating partners in the Two Plus Four negotiations that paved the way for German reunification.

The permanent exhibition in the palace includes furnishings from the years of socialist representation as well as original wallpaper from Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia and the oldest surviving Rococo ballroom in Berlin.
45 to 60 minutes with audio guide or guided tour

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1. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Greifswalder Straße

2. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Greifswalder Straße

3. Cycle path along the Panke – Panke Trail at Karower Teiche loop from Pankow

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