Belvedere, Neubrandenburg

The Belvedere in Neubrandenburg is a lookout point above the northwestern steep bank of the Tollensesee. Over the Tollensesee shimmer from the western shore the contours reminiscent of a Greek temple.

In 1775, Duke Adolf Friedrich IV had a half-timbered summer house built on the heights south of the village of Broda and named it Belvedere, after he had also had the Neubrandenburg Schauspielhaus and the Stadtschloss built. This house, which was also home to the first Neubrandenburg Masonic lodge Zum gekrönten goldenen Greif, was later demolished and rebuilt as a lodge house in Beguinenstraße in Neubrandenburg.

In place of the old Belvedere, Grand Duchess Marie had a new house in the form of a Greek temple built in 1823 by the master builder Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel as an excursion destination for her daughters Luise and Caroline. The rectangular plaster building was given the shape of a Doric prostyle.

In 1934/35, Heinrich Tessenow converted the Belvedere into a memorial for the fallen of the First World War, but it no longer exists today. From 1994 to 1996 the building was extensively restored. From the Belvedere you have a wide view over the Tollensesee.