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Lustgarten

The Lustgarten is a park on Berlin's Museum Island, facing the Altes Museum and next to Berlin Cathedral. It was originally a 16th-century kitchen garden attached to the Royal Palace; in 1646 it was transformed into a formal garden with fountains and geometric paths. In 1713 it became a parade ground covered in sand, and in 1790 it became a park again. Between 1826 and 1829 it was redesigned by Peter Joseph Lenné with formal paths dividing it into six sectors and a thirteen-metre steam-powered fountain. In 1871 the fountain was replaced by an equestrian statue of Frederick William III. During the Weimar Republic it was the site of political demonstrations; in 1934 it was paved over and the statue removed, and Hitler held mass rallies there. In 1942 Herbert Baum's resistance group attempted to destroy a propaganda exhibition there; a 1981 monument commemorates the group. After reunification, in 1997 the Berlin Senate commissioned landscape architect Hans Loidl to redesign it in the spirit of Lenné, with work beginning in 1998. Today the park has fountains and is a public space in central Berlin.

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