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This was further enhanced by the Great Elector’s son, who in 1701 crowned himself in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) King Friedrich in (not of) Prussia.
With his ambition of uniting the states of Brandenburg and Prussia, it was the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1640–1688) who prepared Berlin to become a strong capital, and fortified it as a garrison town.
On the east shore, in an attractive lakeside setting of beech trees, you will find the Jagdschloß Grunewald, a hunting lodge built in 1542 for Prince Elector Joachim II.
In France, fewer than one elector in two voted; in Britain, fewer than one in four did.
Berlin continued as a virtually autonomous outpost of the German empire until 1448, when Brandenburg’s Kurfürst (Prince Elector) Friedrich II took over control of the city after crushing the citizens’ violent resistance, the so-called Berliner Unwillen.