Winterpalais, Palace in Gotha, Germany.

The Winterpalais at Friedrichstraße 2 was a neoclassical city palace, largely rebuilt in 1822–1823 to plans by court building councillor Heinrich Andreas Poersch. Its northward extension, a west-bending side wing with a passageway, a new staircase and reworked facades made it effectively a new building; only cellar and base remnants of the predecessor house survived. Much of it was demolished in 2010 and replaced by a new building finished in 2014.

The palace was built in 1822 as a city residence and initially served as the home of Duchess Caroline Amalie of Hesse-Kassel. Following her death in 1848, state ministers occupied the building, and later newspaper publishers used the space until its demolition in 2010.

The palace takes its name from its use as a winter residence; Duchess Caroline Amalie lived here from 1821 and died in the building on 22 February 1848. In August 1845 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited her here, an event the Privilegirte Gothaische Zeitung described in detail. After 1918 the building housed welfare bodies, a district library and an industrial chamber, and from 1938 the Nazi paper Gothaer Beobachter was produced in it.

The palace was largely demolished in 2010 and replaced by a new building completed in 2014, so nothing of the 1822 structure remains above the cellars and courtyard-side base. The site is at Friedrichstraße 2, outside the former Siebleber Tor.

In 1938 the palace housed the publishing house of the Nazi Gauzeitung "Gothaer Beobachter" and a branch of the antisemitic paper "Der Stürmer"; for this the south balcony was removed and two south rooms demolished to enlarge the entrance. From 1949 it was the seat of the GDR daily "Das Volk", the SED district organ.