Cecilienhof Palace

Cecilienhof Palace is famous for the fact that it was in this building that the Potsdam Conference was held in 1945.

The building in the English rustic style was built at the expense of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1917 according to the project of Paul Schulze-Naumburg for Wilhelm and his wife Cecilia. The owners lived in the palace until their expulsion and nationalization (1945).

The palace has 176 rooms, which are distinguished by modest elegance of expensive materials. Most of the rooms were designed by Paul Ludwig Trost, who created interiors on passenger ships.

Meetings of the Potsdam Conference were held in the Great Hall, in the middle of which the heads of governments of the anti-Hitler coalition gathered at a round table brought from Moscow: Truman, Churchill and Stalin. It was here that Truman ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by telephone.

Now in part of the palace building there is a hotel and a museum dedicated to the events of 1945.