Prinzenpalais Oldenburg
Just a few metres away from the Oldenburger Schloss lies another, smaller royal residence known as the Prinzenpalais (prince's palace). It was Grand Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg who commissioned the construction of the palace in June 1821. He intended for the palace to be used by his two orphaned grandsons, the princes Peter and Alexander, sons of Prince Georg of Oldenburg and Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia. Construction on the two-storey Classicist Prinzenpalais was finished by 1826. However, the two princes only lived at the palace for three years as Alexander moved to Russia following the deaths of both his older brother and grandfather in 1829. His cousin Nikolaus Friedrich Peter took over the property in 1852 about a year before succeeding to the throne as Grand Duke Peter II of Oldenburg. He made several changes to the structure during the 1860's including the addition of a second and third wing by architects Carl Boos and Heinrich Strac...