This place looks like a true fairy tale... 

Schwerin Castle 🏰 a 19th Century AD, Schloss built in the historicist style located in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany 🇩🇪

It is situated on an island in the city's main lake, Lake Schwerin. For centuries, the castle was the home of the dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg and later Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Today parts of it serve as the residence of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament while other parts are used for the palace museum, a restaurant, and cultural events, like open air theatre in the courtyard. 

Major parts of the current palace were built between 1845-1857, as a collaboration between the eminent historicist architects Gottfried Semper, Friedrich August Stüler, Georg Adolf Demmler, and Ernst Friedrich Zwirner.

Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of King Christian X and Queen of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the castle on Christmas Eve of 1879.

The castle is regarded as one of the most important works of Romantic historicism in Europe, and was designated a World Heritage Site in 2024. It is nicknamed the "Neuschwanstein of the North".

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