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Gallery (4), with portraits of the Great Elector and his family. This
gallery leads into the Kurfiirsten-Zimmer (5), with portraits of all the
Hohenzollern Electors; this is adjoined by an antechamber containing
those of the old Counts of Zollern and the Burgraves of Nuremberg. The
following rooms include the Chinesische Kabinett or Chinese Cabinet (5a);
the Kron-Kabinett or Grown Cabinet (6), in which the crown jewels used
to he kept; the Betkammer or Oratory of Frederick I. (7), and the Bridal
Chamber (8), which still plays its historical part in weddings of the
royal house. — Farther on, on the river-front, is the Xeue (talerie or
New Gallery (15), with portraits of the female relatives of Frederick
the Great, by Pesne; the *Brannschweiyische Kammer n, or Brunswick
Rooms (16); the Tower Room in the 'Grline Hut' (Green Hat; 17), hung
with views of the Berlin Palace in the times of the Electors, by C. and
P. Graeb; the adjoining Kapellen-Zimmer or Chapel Room; the Kleist
Rooms (18), which have lately been restored in the German Renaissance
style, and contain ten pictures by L. Cranach; the Elizabeth Unions (19),
formerly occupied by Queen Elizabeth Christina, consort of Frederick
the Great, and later by Queen Elizabeth, consort of Frederick William IV.;
and the Apartments of Pi-incess Marie (20). In an adjoining room (21)
Frederick the Great was born on Jan. 14th, 1712. -- Looking on to the
Lustgarten on the First Floor are the *K6niys- Kummeru or King's
Rooms, fitted up for Frederick William II. by Gontard and Erdmannsdorf,
and now used as guest-rooms for the most distinguished foreign princes.
In the S.E. wing (extending from the old Palace Chapel, the chief remaining
fragment of Joachim's building, as far as Portal II) are the Apartments
of Frederick the Great, re-decorated in 1825-26 by Schinkel for Crown
Prince Frederick William, and now partly used by the Emperor. — On
the Ground Floor of the North West Wing were the Apartments of
Frederick William I., the later ' Petits apparternents' of Frederick
William II., which are still fitted up in the style characteristic of their
period.
Opposite the W. side of the Schloss, on a raised platform,
stands the —
*M"ational Monument to Emperor "William I. (PI. R,
26, 25), an imposing work by R. Begas, unveiled in lisv»7. On a
pedestal 66 ft. in height rises the colossal equestrian figure of the
Emperor (30 ft. high), in bronze, attired in a field-cloak aud holding
a commander's baton in his right hand, on a powerful horse led by
a graceful figure of Peace. At the four corners of the base are
Victories, and on the two principal sides are seated colossal figures
of War (to the N.) and Peace (to the S.). Projecting from the corners
of the base are four lions, amid trophies of weapons aud banners.
— A stone colonnade, with coupled Ionic columns, by Halmhuber,
extends on three sides of the platform. The attic is adorned with
sculptured groups representing the kingdoms of Prussia (by Breuer),
Bavaria (by Gaul), Saxony (by Kraus), and Wurtemberg (by Breuer).
The four groups at the back represent Commerce and Navigation (by
L. Cauer), Art (by Hidding), Science (by K. Begas), and Agriculture
and Industry (by L. Cauer). Each of the corner pavilions bears a
bronze *Quudrigu, that to the N. with Borussia, by Gotz, that to
the S. with Bavaria, by Bernewitz. — The cost amounted to 200,000/.
The castings were made by Gladenbeck.
In the Schloss-Platz (PI. K, 25, 26), to the S. of the Palace