Biesdorf Palace, Neoclassical palace in Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Germany

Biesdorf Palace is a late-classicist villa built in 1868–1869 to designs by Heino Schmieden on a T-shaped plan. Its reddish-brown stone facade has a rusticated lower level, a recessed portico with rectangular columns, and a taller central block with a hipped roof and pediment. A wing with an open colonnade of paired columns stands before a cylindrical tower topped by a domed lantern.

Hans-Hermann Freiherr von Rüxleben inherited the Biesdorf estate in 1862 and had an Italianate tower villa built northeast of the village green in 1868–1869 to designs by Heino Schmieden, with a four-hectare park laid out by Eduard Neide and Albert Brodersen. In 1887 Werner von Siemens took over the roughly 600-hectare property, and in 1889 he passed the villa to his son Wilhelm von Siemens, who had Theodor Astfalck widen the south loggia and balcony and add a curved outdoor stair to the east loggia in 1888–1889. The city of Berlin bought the 380-hectare estate on 27 October 1927.

The building is the district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf's municipal gallery and a venue for cultural events. Its name changed with its uses: after the war the great hall held a memorial for fallen Soviet soldiers, in the early 1960s it served as a village club, and from the mid-1970s it was a Kulturhaus with a branch of the Marzahn district library.

The palace is accessible by taking subway line 5 to Elsterwerdaer Platz station or suburban train line 5 to Biesdorf station, both convenient options from central Berlin. The surrounding grounds are open for walking and exploring at your own pace throughout the day.

The palace's façades are finished in coloured Roman cement mortar, a technique the Berlin stucco master H. Beyerhaus called "my first façade in cement casting" and which the sources describe as unmatched in the Berlin area. The building has no surviving construction plans, so restorers worked from the fabric itself.