Bad Freienwalde

Bad Freienwalde is a town within the Markisch Oderland district in Brandenburg, Germany. The settlement of Vrienwalde in the Margraviate of Brandenburg became first noted in a 1316 deed and regarded as a town in 1364. From 1618, the Freienwalde manor became at once held with the aid of the Brandenburg prince electors. A mineral spring changed into found in 1683. The alchemist Johann Kunckel brought it to the eye of the "Great Elector" Frederick William of Brandenburg, who, gout-ridden, arrived in Freienwalde the following year. Recorded by the medical doctor Bernhard us Albinus in 1685, the Kurfurstenquelle have become the foundation of Freienwalde's rise as a metropolis.

Frederick William's son King Frederick I of Prussia had a primary maison de pleasances erected by the architect Andreas Schluter. The development changed into further promoted, while in 1799 the small Neoclassical Freienwalde Castle turned into constructed in step with plans by means of David Gilly as a summer time house of Princess Frederika Louisa of Hesse Darmstadt, the widow of King Frederick William II of Prussia. Its park becomes redesigned by means of Peter Joseph Lenne in 1822.