Cecilienhof

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Cecilienhof

Schloss Cecilienhof is a palace in the northern part of the Neuer Garten park in Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the Germany States of Germany of Brandenburg and is part of the Metropolitan area of Berlin/Brandenburg. It is situated on the River Havel, some 25 kilometres southwest of the center of Berlin....
, close to the Jungfernsee

Jungfernsee

Lake Jungfernsee is located near Potsdam, Germany and is on the river Havel.External links...
lake. Since 1990 it is part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin refers to a group of palace complexes and landscaped gardens found in Potsdam, and the German capital of Berlin....
UNESCO World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany had it erected for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany

File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Gr?sseres Wappen des Kronprinzen.pngFrederick William Victor Augustus Ernest of the House of Hohenzollern was the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire....
and the crown prince's wife Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was the wife of William, German Crown Prince, the son of William II, German Emperor.She was the daughter of Frederick Francis III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia....
. The house was designed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg

Paul Schultze-Naumburg

Paul Schultze-Naumburg was a Nazi architecture and one of Nazi Germany's most vocal political critics of modern architecture. Along with Alexander von Senger, Eugen Honig, Konrad Nonn, and German Bestelmeyer, Schultze-Naumburg was a member of a Nazi Party para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingen...
to look like an English

England

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Schloss Cecilienhof is a palace in the northern part of the Neuer Garten park in Potsdam

Potsdam

Jungfernsee

Lake Jungfernsee is located near Potsdam, Germany and is on the river Havel.External links...
lake. Since 1990 it is part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin refers to a group of palace complexes and landscaped gardens found in Potsdam, and the German capital of Berlin....
UNESCO World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Paul Schultze-Naumburg

England

Bidston Hill

Bidston Hill is of heathland and woodland that contains historic buildings and ancient rock carvings. It is on the Wirral Peninsula at the edge of the town of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England....
' (later 'Hillbark') on the Wirral Peninsula

Wirral Peninsula

Wirral or the Wirral is a peninsula in North West England. It is bounded to the west by the River Dee, Wales, which forms the boundary with Wales, and to the east by the River Mersey....
. which in turn was inspired by Little Moreton Hall

Little Moreton Hall

Little Moreton Hall is a moated 15th-century half-timbered manor house southwest of Congleton, Cheshire. It is one of the finest examples of Timber framing domestic architecture in England....
. The interior was furnished according to plans by Paul Troost

Paul Troost

File:Bundesarchiv B145 Bild-F051643-0881, Paul Ludwig Troost, Relief.jpgPaul Ludwig Troost , born in Wuppertal, was a Germany architect. An extremely tall, spare-looking, reserved Westphalian with a close-shaven head, Troost belonged to a school of architects, Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius who, even before 1914, reacted sharply against th...
, who originally had designed steamship décors.

The brick and oak timberframe

Timber framing

Timber framing , or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise and tenon joints....
building including 5 courtyards and 55 carved brick chimney tops should have been completed in 1915, nevertheless construction delayed due to the outbreak of World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
and Crown Prince Wilhelm and Cecilie could not move in until August 1917. Wilhelm followed his father into exile one year later, while Cecilie stayed at the palace until she fled from the approaching Red Army

Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
in February 1945.

Cecilienhof was the location of the Potsdam Conference

Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of William, German Crown Prince, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945....
between July 17 and August 2 1945. Afore the rooms had been largely refurnished to match the taste of the participants. Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
, later Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
, Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
and Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
met at the round table in the great hall. On July 26, 1945 Churchill and Truman issued the Potsdam Declaration

Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender was a statement issued on July 26 for the surrender of Japanese forces, 1945, by United States President of the United States Harry S....
defining the terms for Japanese

Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until its defeat in World War II in 1945....
surrender, while Truman had already given order to prepare the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Today Cecilienhof is a museum as well as a hotel. Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
visited Cecilienhof on November 3, 2004. On May 30, 2007 the palace was used for the G8

The Group of Eight is a forum for governments of eight nations of the northern hemisphere: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; in addition, the European Union is represented within the G8, but cannot host or chair....
foreign minister

Foreign minister

A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a governmental cabinet Political minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign nation....
s summit.