About the location
Built upon the foundations of an Old German moated castle, a new castle was constructed in Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century. This building was itself replaced by a new Baroque structure in 1717. When Count von Witzleben-Alt-Döbern, a friend of Kaiser Wilhelm I, purchased the castle in 1880, he subjected the building to extensive alterations and additions in a mix of styles that almost completely erased the Baroque character of the structure. From 1943 to 1945, the castle housed the Swedish Embassy, as war-torn Berlin had become too dangerous. Today Schloss Altdöbern belongs to the Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH.