Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed the palace for Prince Carl of Prussia around 1825, and the article gives no completion date. It began as a cottage and was converted into a summer palace. The article calls the style late Neoclassical and gives no materials or dimensions. Schinkel also designed the two golden lions in front of the south frontage, which are versions of the Medici lions from the Villa Medici in Rome.
Prince Carl brought back antique objects from his travels, and they furnish the interior. It stands on the Wannsee peninsula in Berlin, near the Glienicke Bridge, and the surrounding park is now called Volkspark Glienicke.
The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg administers it. UNESCO listed it in 1990 as part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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