Jagdschloss Glienicke, Hunting lodge in Wannsee, Berlin, Germany

Jagdschloss Glienicke is a former hunting lodge in the Wannsee district of Berlin, near the Glienicke Bridge. The pale stone building has a steep dark roof with dormers, a broad glazed veranda at ground level, and a round tower at its right edge capped by a ribbed green copper dome with a lantern and finial. A curved gable with a small sculpted relief crowns the projecting central section.

The estate was built between 1682 and 1684 for Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, with Charles Philippe Dieussart as the architect in charge. Over the following centuries the property passed through several owners and took on different uses before being protected as a historic site.

The name Jagdschloss records a hunting function, yet the building served many purposes: Frederick William I turned it into a military hospital for his guard regiment, and from 1832 Wilhelm von Türk ran an orphanage there. After 1947 it was a youth hostel, and the 1958 film Mädchen in Uniform was shot partly on its park-side steps.

The lodge stands in Wannsee near Glienicke Bridge, not on the Wannsee shore. The surrounding park is open at all times from Klein Glienicke or Wannsee; swing gates along the paths are meant to slow wild boars. The Berliner Mauerweg runs past the park and can be varied through it.

Frederick the Great gave the estate in 1763 to manufacturer Isaac Levin Joel, who turned it into a wallpaper factory for a short time. It is unusual for a former hunting lodge to have been used this way, and the episode shows how such properties could shift quickly from noble to commercial hands.