Lustgarten
Sign in to saveThe Lustgarten (, Pleasure Garden) is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the Altes Museum. It is next to the (Berlin Cathedral) and near the reconstructed (Berlin City Palace) of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public urban park.
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- Park.name
- Lustgarten
- Park.image
- Altes Museum & Lustgarten.jpg
- Park.image_caption
- Lustgarten in front of the Old Museum
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- 14
- Park.location
- Berlin
- Park.created
- 1646
- Park.status
- Open year round
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- Altes Museum & Lustgarten.jpg
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- Lustgarten (Berlin)
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- Lustgarten
- inception
- 1646-00-00
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- Lustgarten
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The Lustgarten (, Pleasure Garden) is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the Altes Museum. It is next to the (Berlin Cathedral) and near the reconstructed (Berlin City Palace) of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public urban park.
The area of the Lustgarten was originally developed in the 16th century as a kitchen garden attached to the Palace, then the residence of the Elector of Brandenburg, the core of the later Kingdom of Prussia. After the devastation of Germany during the Thirty Years War, Berlin was redeveloped by Friedrich Wilhelm (the Great Elector) and his Dutch wife, Luise Henriette of Nassau. It was Luise, with the assistance of a military engineer Johann Mauritz and a landscape gardener Michael Hanff, who, in 1646, converted the former kitchen garden into a formal garden, with fountains and geometric paths, and gave it its current name, Pleasure Garden.
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