Babelsberg Palace stands in the eponymous park and quarter of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, near Berlin. Prince William, later German Emperor William I and King of Prussia, and his wife, Augusta of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empress and Queen of Prussia, used it as their vacation home for more than fifty years. Along with the adjacent park and other parks in the area, the Babelsberg Palace was included on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1990 for its architectural cohesiveness and its monument to the strength of the Prussian monarchy. The edifice, designed in the English Gothic revival style, was built in two phases over the period 1833–1849. The contract to plan the palace was given to the architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who was in charge of the works until his death, in 1841, Ludwig Persius and Johann Heinrich Strack. On 22 September 1862 in the palace and nearby grounds the discussion between King William I of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck took place that resulted with the appointment of Bismarck as Minister President and Foreign Minister of Prussia. The architecture of Babelsberg Palace was the prototype for the construction of Kittendorf Palace between 1848 and 1853 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, by pupil of Schinkel, Friedrich Hitzig. The palace has been undergoing extensive exterior and interior renovations since 2013. #History#Architecture#Castles
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