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of Berlin. CHARLOTTENBURG. Section 12. 183
Interior. At present only the apartments formerly occupied by
Frederick I., in the central part, next the garden, are shown. Emp.
Frederick III. also spent ten weeks of his last illness here (March 11th
to June 1st, 1888). The rococo decorations are well worthy of inspection.
Visitors should note the Porcelain Chamber, with Chinese porcelain
presented to Queen Sophia Charlotte by English merchants; and Wich-
mann's marble statue of the Empress Charlotte of Russia, in the round
garden-saloon.
The entrance to the pleasant Palace Garden, laid out by the
eminent French landscape-gardener Le Notre in 1694, a favourite
promenade for Berliners and Charlottenburgers, is near the small
guard-room, adjoining the W. wing. Crossing the orangery to the
right, turning to the left and skirting it on the farther side, and
then following an avenue of pines to the right, we reach (in 8 min.
from the entrance) the *Mausoleum (PI. R, 2; tickets, seep. 182),
erected by Gentz in the Doric style from Schinkel's designs and en¬
larged in 1888-90. Queen Luise (d. 1810) and her husband Fred¬
erick William III. (d. 1840) repose here, together with Princess
Liegnitz (d. 1873), the second wife of Frederick William III., Em¬
peror William I. (d. 1888), and Empress Augusta (d. 1890). The
recumbent figures of the first-named pair, executed in marble by
Ruuch's masterly hand, are strikingly impressive. The beautiful
figure of the queen, executed at Carrara and Rome in 1812-13, was
placed here in 1815 and at once established the sculptor's fame. The
monument of the king was finished at Berlin in 1846. The fine
figures of the Emperor William and his wife, by Encke, were
placed here in 1894. The mourning angel in the vestibule is also
by Encke. The beautiful candelabrum on the right, with the three
Fates, is by Rauch, that on the left, with the Horse, by Tieck; the
crucifix in the apse by Achtermann, the painting by Pfann-
schmidt.
From the Palace the Spandauer-Str. leads to the W. to the Westend
Station of the Ringbahn (p. 13); behind it, to the right, lies the extensive
Municipal Hospital. Farther to the W. is the colony of villas known as
"Westend (Westend Restaurant). Beyond it, about l'/2 M. from the
station, on the Spandauer Chaussee (tramway R), is the Spandauer Bock,
a popular beer-garden commanding a view towards Spandau. About
2V2 M. to the S.W. of it is Pichelsberg (p. 184).
13. The Forest District between Charlottenburg
and Potsdam.
An extensive wooded district extends to the S.W. from Char¬
lottenburg and Spandau (p. 200) to Potsdam, lying on the E. bank
of the Havel, which expands here to the proportions of a lake (steamer
between Spandau and Potsdam, see p. 200). This district is divided
into two unequal parts by the Wannsee, a bay-like indentation of
the Havel; to the N.E. is the Grunewald, to the S.W., accessible
from the station of Wannsee, is the Potsdam Forest. The land-