particularly fond of this place, which he used as a hunting retreat but also as a residence, and every year he would spend a few months here with his wife, Sophie Dorothea of Hanover, and their numerous children [...] Frederick (II.). After his death in 1740, the house underwent many changes of use over the next 250 years. It served the Kaiser as a hunting lodge, then as a museum, as a base for Soviet intelligence units [...] and as the seat of a district council in GDR days. At the end of September 2000, after almost ten years of restoration work, the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten (Prussian Palaces and Gardens F