Kowtowing before the Kaiser The Grotto Hall was the Site of a Staged Humiliation On September 4, 1901, the Grotto Hall at the New Palace provided the setting for a special purpose. Prince Chun, a brot
The Marble Gallery: A Site in the Service of National Socialist Representation The Prussian State Council’s first work session took place at the New Palace’s Marble Gallery on 16 September 1933. Just
The Nazi Lord Mayor Julius Lippert at Glienicke Julius Lippert, chief editor of “Angriff”, the Nazi newspaper for the Berlin district under Goebbels, lived at Glienicke from 1936 to 1940. He had acqui
The evacuation of works of art to protect them against the effects of war On July 3, 1942, four large moving vans stopped in front of the palace in Rheinsberg. Their extremely valuable freight consist
“Победа - хорошое слово”, “Victory is a fine word” Two sets of Cyrillic graffiti, “Victory is a fine word” and the year “1945”, which Soviet soldiers scratched onto the walls of the Blue Gallery, are
Shielded – The Reception of the Shah of Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at Charlottenburg Palace Charlottenburg Palace, June 2, 1967, 6:30 pm June 2, 1967 is a key date for the former Federal Republic
An important guest – UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim When, the UN secretary-general, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, arrived at Cecilienhof Country House on February 8, 1975, he had already met with the leaders
The Last Guest of State of the German Democratic Republic at the Palace Mikhail Gorbachev was the GDR’s last guest of state to visit Schönhausen House Mikhail Gorbachev made a memorable and quite mome
Breaking a taboo – The dinner for U.S. President Bill Clinton On May 13, 1998, at Sanssouci Palace a taboo in historical preservation was broken. After more than a hundred years, the Marble Hall of Fr
The SPSG’s textiles collection includes about 8,000 objects from the 16th to early 20th century. The larger part of the inventory consists of furnishing textiles for wall coverings and curtains, and u
The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg) is inviting refugees from Ukraine and other countries to visit for free. Ou
