Schloss Bellevue Berlin, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.
Enjoy my attempt at sight-showing as I try my best to tell you about Schloss Bellevue Berlin — luckily Bellevue Palace is, in fact, been the principal residence of the German President since 1994.
Schloss Bellevue was built in 1786 for Prince Ferdinand of Prussia, the younger brother of King Frederick II of Prussia, and was designed by architect Philipp Daniel Boumann as a summer residence, on the site of a house built in 1743 by Knobelsdorff. It was the first Neoclassical building in Germany, and has Corinthian columns, with wings on either side (the “ladies’ wing” and the “Spree wing”). It is surrounded by a park covering 20 hectares.
It served as the official residence of the Crown Prince of Germany until 1918. The treaty ending the Franco-Prussian War was signed here on 3 September 1870.
Schloss Bellevue is a château in the centre of Berlin. It is situated on the north edge of the Tiergarten park, beside the river Spree, near the Berlin Victory Column, with the address “Spreeweg 1.”
