Beelitzer Hunter's Blind on Pfaueninsel

The so-called "Jagdschirm" from the Beelitz mountains is a hunting lodge built in 1796 by the court carpenter Johann Gottlieb Brendel for King Frederick William II in the royal hunting grounds near Beelitz and then converted to the peacock island at the request of the king. The timber-framed building, which is boarded with boards, is completely covered with oak bark on the outside. Inside, there was a salon for the hunting party, which was covered with curtains and painted paper wallpaper with fluted pilasters and glued bases and capitals. The Jagdschützen shot out of the dark basement level, which had only narrow loopholes.

Small but nice

For architects and architecture fans: look at the facade, it is made of tree bark for camouflage and to blend in with the landscape.