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The Pfaueninsel is in the Havel near the citizen of Berlin when lake convenient island and a popular trip goal.

Until 1689 there an attempt glasswork of the Glasmachers Johannes Kunckel existed. At the time the island was called still Kaninchenwerder. East of it a smaller island lies named Schwanenwerder.

In the year 1793 the Prussian king at that time Friedrich William II. acquired the island for the house Hohenzollern. End 18. Century gave it the establishment of the lock on the Pfaueninsel for the countess Lichtenau in order. In particular by Friedrich William III. was transformed the island to a landscape garden with Menagerie, which accommodated a large number of exotic animals, among other things also Pfauen.

The palm house caught 1880 fires for unknown reasons and burned up to the foundation walls down. Flying sparks from the fire-place were assumed, since the palm house with wood was built. It was not any longer again-built, but stone columns mark the sketch out of the building.

In the post-war period the Pfaueninsel belonged to the today's district Steglitz Zehlendorf to the western part of Berlin in the district Zehlendorf. The island kept its character large as nature idyll put on: beside some free-living Pfauen also further native and exotic birds in cage attitude are supplemental, by a rich Flora. The entire island is proven as protected area. It belonged to the donation Prussian locks and gardens Berlin Brandenburg and stands since 1990 together with the locks and park of potsdam Sanssouci and Berlin Glienicke as world cultural heritage on the list of the UNESCO.

The following important buildings are today on the Pfaueninsel:

Lock, dairy-farm, Luisentempel, Kavalierhaus, turbine house, hunt house

See also

  • Menagerie
  • Donation Prussian locks and gardens Berlin Brandenburg

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Lock, opinion of northeastLock, opinion of the southDairy-farm, opinion of southeastKavaliershaus

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