Cycling Highlight
Recommended by 278 out of 295 cyclists
Location: Altlandsberg, Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg, Germany
Altlandsberg burned down in 1632 in the Thirty Years' War and remained desolate. In 1654 the Electoral Minister Count Otto von Schwerin acquired the castle and the burned down town. He had it rebuilt and the baroque palace and the associated hall church built around 1670. Here the Prussian King Friedrich I spent his youth. In 1670, as a reformed landlord, Otto von Schwerin settled the first refuges (Huguenots) in Brandenburg, which, however, moved to Berlin in 1672 in the French colony privileged there in 1661. In 1684, another city fire destroyed 90 percent of the city. In 1708, King Friedrich I bought the Altlandsberg estate, converted it into a royal office and expanded the castle into a side residence as a three-wing baroque building. After the death of Friedrich I, his son Friedrich Wilhelm I gave up the palace as a residence in 1713 and had the equipment removed. It burned down in 1757 and was torn down except for the hall church, which was rebuilt between 1765 and 1768. The last major fire raged in the city in 1854.
March 25, 2020
Worth seeing complex with park, manor church and distillery.
More information: schlossgut-altlandsberg.de
March 7, 2021
after the restoration, the castle property has become a real gem. At the moment the parks are still under construction, the paths are already finished. A baroque water basin was also exposed again in the course of the construction work.
November 27, 2021
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