Neustrelitz Palace

After the castle in Strelitz was burned down in the eve of 24 October 1712, the ducal family was forced to live in hunting lodges for a number of years.

The architect Christoph Julius Löwe transformed the hunting lodge into a baroque style three-story, three-winged palace.

Although parts of palace could have been restored, the Communist regime of East Germany decided to demolish it for ideological reasons.

Finally in December 2019, the Government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Mayor of Neustrelitz signed an agreement to clear the surviving castle basement of sand, construct a concrete ceiling for it, and commence planning for reconstruction of the tower.

[1] After ten years of restoration and reconstruction, the Neustrelitz Palace Gardens were re-opened to the public in the summer of 2019.