Rheinsberg Palace stands in Rheinsberg, Germany, on the Grienericksee, about 100 kilometers northwest of Berlin. A Renaissance water castle was built there in 1566 by the von Bredow family, and the Thirty Years' War damaged it. Frederick William I bought the estate in 1734.
Johann Gottfried Kemmeter and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff extended it by 1740, in the style of Frederician Rococo. It is described as a model for Sanssouci. Georg Friedrich von Boumann and Carl Gotthard Langhans completed it to the original plans in 1786.
The palace is owned by the Berlin-Brandenburg foundation for Prussian palaces and gardens. It is a museum, and it also houses the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum and the Rheinsberg Music Academy.
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