Marmorpalais

MARBLE PALACE
OPENING HOURS

APRIL
SA, SO AND HOLIDAYS
10.00 - 17.30
LAST INPUT 17.00

MAY - OCTOBER
DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY
10.00 - 17.30
LAST INPUT 17.00

NOVEMBER - MARCH
SA, SO AND HOLIDAYS
10.00 - 16.00
LAST INPUT 15:30

The marble palace was built towards the end of the 18th century in the early classical style. It initially served as the summer residence of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II. The building was used by the Hohenzollern dynasty with varying intensity until the end of the monarchy.

Marble Palace
The Marble Palace in the New Garden in Potsdam was the summer palace of King Frederick William II of Prussia. The architects Carl von Gontard, Carl Gotthard Langhans and Michael Philipp Boumann built it in the early classicist style between 1787 and 1793 and 1797 in an English park designed by Johann August Eyserbeck close to the banks of the river. The “new house” was the private life of the musically gifted man Reserved for the king. With this new building, the nephew and successor of Frederick the Great, who remained childless, distanced himself spatially and architecturally from his little-loved uncle, who preferred rococo forms with Palladian echoes throughout his life. At the same time, however, it is the stylistic continuation of a pleasure palace (of the baroque Maison de plainsance type) into the new age of classicism, similar to the slightly earlier Wörlitz.Heiligen Sees Castle.
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