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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.
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.
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.
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.