Remplin Palace

During the 18th century, two wings were added and the castle was transformed into a baroque stately home with a large garden around it.

Count Frederick II von Hahn was one of the richest men of Mecklenburg in his time and dedicated himself to the science and in particular astronomy.

The new owner was George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, who sold the house and estate to Karl von Maltzahn in 1848.

One entered the palace through a large marble domed hall, from where the visitor could go into the gallery with furniture by André Charles Boulle.

The library contained around 12,000 volumes, of which parts could be traced back to the collection of count Friedrich Hahn.

The palace also contained chapels for the three different confessions of the Grand Ducal family: Russian, Roman Catholic and Evangelic.

Only when the Grand Ducal family was forced to leave Russia after the Revolution and lost all their (Russian) properties, they took up permanent residence in Remplin.

Most of the art collection and the library was lost, including paintings by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and François Boucher, and mail correspondence between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and queen Louise of Prussia.

[3] The Grand Ducal family was forced to leave Remplin for Berlin, where they lived until their home was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in February 1944.