Lindstedt Castle, Neoclassical château in Potsdam, Germany
Lindstedt Castle is a late Neoclassical building erected between 1858 and 1861 under Frederick William IV. It consists of a main house, a tower topped with a belvedere, and a temple-like annex with a high open staircase. A colonnade links the building to Lindstedter Chaussee, and the parts read as a heterogeneous whole reflecting the patron's wish for Italian classicism.
Frederick William III bought the Lindstedt estate in 1828 from the von Bülow family; it served carp breeding, and remains of the ponds survive. Frederick William IV planned an antique-style retirement villa here from 1832, contributing over 100 drawings, but only a minimal version was built. His brother and successor William I had the building completed; the sources give 1858–1861, the Russian article 1858–1860.
The name Lindstedt comes from the von Bülow family estate that Frederick William III bought in 1828; the palace was built from 1858 to 1861 under Frederick William IV, who contributed over 100 drawings to the plans. The heterogeneous ensemble of tower, belvedere and temple-like annex reflects his longing for Italian classicism. Peter Joseph Lenné laid out the regular garden, and the elevated site gives views of the New Palace domes.
The castle stands on a hill about 800 metres northwest of the New Palace, directly on Lindstedter Chaussee. Since autumn 2025 it has been handed to the Brandenburg State Institute of Legal Medicine, which plans to convert it into its administrative headquarters with teaching and seminar rooms; public access is therefore not guaranteed. The regular garden by Peter Joseph Lenné is separate from the building.
The palace's best-known later resident was Erich von Falkenhayn, chief of the general staff, who held it in hereditary lease from 1918 and died there in 1922; his family stayed until 1944. Wilhelm Groener, former Reichswehr and interior minister, lived in the house from 1934 and died there on 3 May 1939.
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