The notice outside Charlottenburg states (2002): 'The Palace
Garden, with an area ot 33 hectares, is an important monument of
Garden architecture. The grounds were laid out beginning in 1697
following the plans of Siméon Godeau, a pupil of the famous
French landscape architect André Le Notre. it is thus the
earliest garden in Germany which was influenced by Le Notre's
style. Characteristic for the Baroque garden of Charlottenburg
were the lanes which extended from the middle hail of the palace
towards Spandau, Tegel, and Niederschönhausen, the parterre of
ornamentally shaped boxwood trees, and the system of tree-lined
avenues which are directed towards the north. This Baroque
garden existed until 1786. It was then gradually converted into
an atmospheric landscape garden with a suggestive mood, first by
J. A. Eyserbeck and then starting in 1818 by P. J. Lenné, in
which one part of the Baroque avenue structure was retained, in
1788 the Belvedere was built in the garden, followed by the
Mausoleum for Queen Luise