Rheinsberg – Prussian Memorial Sites
Knobelsdorff: artistic soul
Painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699-1753) was the soul of artistic life in Rheinsberg, having designed the palace and garden. When a fire reduced the whole town to rubble and ashes in 1740, Knobelsdorff planned a new layout with a grid-shaped street network and a market and church square on the main axis. This uniform building arrangement in squares with one to two-storey houses survives to this day. Incidentally, the church was spared destruction by the fire, so its precious Renaissance furnishings come as quite a surprise.
Redesign under Prince Henry
As King, Frederick left Rheinsberg to his brother Henry (1726-1802), who was 14 years his junior. He commissioned Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732-1808) to redesign the interior of the palace in the early Classicist style. The garden was extended and turned into a landscape park. On the other side of the lake, Henry had an obelisk erected in 1791 with commemorative medals dedicated to the heroes of the Seven Years’ War, especially in memory of his brother Augustus William (1722-1758), whom the King had insulted. Close to the Heckentheater in Rheinsberg Park is Henry’s tomb pyramid.
Further information
The town made its mark in world literature in 1912: Kurt Tucholsky published his story “Rheinsberg, ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte” (“Rheinsberg, a picture book for lovers”). For this reason, Rheinsberg House and Park today houses the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum.
Knobelsdorff: artistic soul
Painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699-1753) was the soul of artistic life in Rheinsberg, having designed the palace and garden. When a fire reduced the whole town to rubble and ashes in 1740, Knobelsdorff planned a new layout with a grid-shaped street network and a market and church square on the main axis. This uniform building arrangement in squares with one to two-storey houses survives to this day. Incidentally, the church was spared destruction by the fire, so its precious Renaissance furnishings come as quite a surprise.
Redesign under Prince Henry
As King, Frederick left Rheinsberg to his brother Henry (1726-1802), who was 14 years his junior. He commissioned Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732-1808) to redesign the interior of the palace in the early Classicist style. The garden was extended and turned into a landscape park. On the other side of the lake, Henry had an obelisk erected in 1791 with commemorative medals dedicated to the heroes of the Seven Years’ War, especially in memory of his brother Augustus William (1722-1758), whom the King had insulted. Close to the Heckentheater in Rheinsberg Park is Henry’s tomb pyramid.
Further information
The town made its mark in world literature in 1912: Kurt Tucholsky published his story “Rheinsberg, ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte” (“Rheinsberg, a picture book for lovers”). For this reason, Rheinsberg House and Park today houses the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum.
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Kontakt
Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
Tel.: 033931-7260
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