The Royal Palce of Berlin was founded in 1443 as the residence of the Hohenzollern-Dynasty.

The Berlin City Palace was the center of the so-called classical mile between the Pariser Platz square with the Brandenburg Gate in the west and the Alexanderplatz in the east.

These comparing Photographs from before World-War II and the Schloss-Site after it’s demolition in 1950.

The Palace did not lie in Berlin – Berlin was the Palace

The Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1640 – 1688) made the Palace the center of the city and of the country.

The interior of the Berlin Palace is outstandingly well documented. Even so the complete reconstruction of the costly rooms would break any budget.

You will find here some photographs with beautiful details, without comments.

On February 3, 1945, during the heaviest bombing attack ever on the city, the Berlin Palace was destroyed by a number of high explosive bombs and numberless incendiary bombs.

Movie of the building of the Palace.

In accordance with the architectural principles of Vitruvius and Palladio, the interaction of the major edifices in the center of Berlin, arising out of the individual buildings from various centuries, created an exciting and yet extraordinarily harmonious ensemble.