Jagdschloss Grunewald

Berlin's oldest preserved castle, the Grunewald Hunting Lodge (Jagdschloss Grunewald), stands on the south shore of the Grunewaldsee in Dahlem. Joachim II Hector, prince-elector of Brandenburg, had it built in the Renaissance style in 1542 and 1543 and named it Zum grünen Wald, "to the green forest". The name passed to the whole Grunewald, and around 1800 the lodge itself came to be called Grunewald. Between 1705 and 1708, Frederick I, the first king of Prussia, had it rebuilt, and master builder Martin Grünberg gave it its Baroque appearance.

Inside is the only hall in Berlin that survives from the Renaissance. The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg has run the lodge as a museum since 1932. It shows paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son Lucas Cranach the Younger, alongside Dutch and German works from the 15th to the 19th century. Since 1977, a nearby building has housed a collection of hunting equipment.