Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg, a town of Prussia, on the Spree, 3 miles W. of Berlin, with which it is connected by a road leading through the Thiergarten. It contains a royal palace, which was founded in 1696 for Sophie Charlotte, the second wife of Frederick I., and which has a fine park, with a large orange-grove, a theatre, and a mausoleum; here are the remains of Frederick William III. and his queen, with their statues by Rauch, and here their son, the Emperor William I., was interred in 1888. In the town are a royal institute of glass-painting, an artillery and engineering school; the manufactures include iron-wares, machinery, porcelain, glass, paper, leather, chemicals, and beer. Pop. (1880) 30,483; (1890) 76,859.