Charlottenburg Palace Park

The Charlottenburg Palace Park was laid out in 1697 as the first Baroque park in Germany by Siméon Godeau. It is the oldest surviving park in Berlin.
Today it is one of the most beautiful baroque parks in Berlin and Brandenburg in its size and with its unique ornamental beds.

Sophie Charlotte, wife of the Elector Frederick III, a pleasure palace after a draft of the architect Johann Arnold Nering build.

In the French style a baroque parterre, a flat, only low planted area and a Boskett, at that time very popular "pleasure grove" were put on on the garden side. The grounds were supplemented with a play garden with a water basin, lanes for playing boules and a pheasant garden.

In the reign of Frederick William II 1786-1797, a follower of the then emerging Romantic trend, the Paterre was partially dissolved and the northern part of the grounds redesigned in the style of an English landscape garden.

In the park is the mausoleum of Queen Luise and the small rococo pavilion Belvedere with a porcelain collection. The large playgrounds and sunbathing areas are particularly popular with visitors to the park. Ponds and moats complement the grounds. Children enjoy the beautiful large playground in summer and the toboggan run in winter.