Palace Tegel
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Tegel Palace - one of the most attractive monuments in Berlin - is located on the shores of Lake Tegel. A feature of the castle is a beautiful park, and the palace itself appeared in the place where he stood before the manor. The first building appeared here in 1558, and it was done in the Renaissance style. The farmstead is not original and has not been any known.

Frederick William of Brandenburg, after looking for a place once his residence, ordered to rebuild the mansion, giving it a look of a traditional hunting lodge. From the previous building was gone, but the clean-cut classical palace today are of interest from tourists. The second title of the palace - the Palace of Humboldt, because he has become since 1700 the family nest of the family for many years. The building of the palace had four wings that united the towers, while the interiors have been the highlight of antique room, blue room and the Blue room in one of the towers.

On the creation of the palace he worked famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the style of the building is most inclined to classicism. The famous park is smashed after another restructuring in the years 1777-1789, the author of the project was Gottlieb Johann Christian County. But in the early 19th century, Wilhelm Humboldt himself, the founder of the University of Berlin, occupied by parks, planning, planting right from his point of view, the creation of plants and park art. The palace complex is located Tegel and family tomb of the family Humboldt, which in 1983 recognized as a national historic landmark.

Today the residents of the estate - a family by the name of Heinz - are direct descendants of the famous Humboldt Park and Tegel palace - one of the favorite places for walking residents and visitors to the city at any time of the year.

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