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The project of the Orangery Palace was prepared according to the sketches of the king by the architects Friedrich August Stüler and Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse. One of the halls of the Orangery Palace housed an art gallery with copies of Raphael's works. The former guest apartments and servants' quarters are used as a museum and the main archive of the state of Brandenburg, and tubs with exotic plants from Sanssouci Park spend the winter in the halls of the palace. The Orangery Palace is administered by the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg and since 1990, along with other palaces in Berlin and Potsdam, has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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• Jorg Wacker: Das Triumphstraßenprojekt in Sanssouci, in: Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Nichts gedeiht ohne Pflege. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Orangerie im Mai bis August 2001, Potsdam 2001, S. 148-157
• Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Die Orangerie im Park Sanssouci. Amtlicher Fuhrer, 2. Auflage, Potsdam 2002
• Robert Bussler: Der Rafael Saal. Verzeichnis der im königlichen Orangeriehause zu Sans-Souci auf allerhöchsten Befehl aufgestellten Copien nach Gemälden von Rafael Sanzio. 2. Auflage, Berlin 1861
• Henriette Graf: Das "Boullezimmer" in der Potsdamer Orangerie. In: Weltkunst, Heft 13, München 1999, S. 2207-2209
• Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologisches Landesmuseum und Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Peter Joseph Lenne. Parks und Garten im Land Brandenburg. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-217-X

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The Palaces of Potsdam is a large-scale ensemble of palaces made in a variety of architectural styles. Most of Potsdam's palaces were included in the 1990 UNESCO World Heritage List.

Palaces of Potsdam

Palaces near Potsdam

Potsdam (German: Potsdam [ˈpɔtsdam], n.-puddle. Podstupim) is a city in eastern Germany, the capital of the federal state of Brandenburg, where it has the status of an extra-district city. It is located on the Havel River and on the banks of several interconnected lakes, 20 km southwest of Berlin.

Sans Souci (from French sans souci - without worries) is the palace of Frederick the Great in the eastern part of the park of the same name in Potsdam (Germany). The palace was built in 1745-1747 according to the design of the king himself. The practical side of the implementation of the royal plan was entrusted to a close friend of the king - the architect Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff.

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Orangery Palace(German orangerieschloss) - a building in the style of the Italian Renaissance, built in 1851-1864 at the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm IV in his residence Potsdam at the northern border of Sanssouci Park. The design of the Orangery Palace was prepared from the king's sketches by the architects Friedrich August Stüler and Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse. One of the halls of the Orangery Palace housed an art gallery with copies of Raphael's works. The former guest apartments and servants' quarters are used as a museum and the main archive of the state of Brandenburg, and tubs with exotic plants from Sanssouci Park spend the winter in the halls of the palace. The Orangery Palace is administered by the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg and since 1990, along with other palaces in Berlin and Potsdam, has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Literature

• Jorg Wacker: Das Triumphstraßenprojekt in Sanssouci, in: Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Nichts gedeiht ohne Pflege. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Orangerie im Mai bis August 2001, Potsdam 2001, S. 148-157
• Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Die Orangerie im Park Sanssouci. Amtlicher Fuhrer, 2. Auflage, Potsdam 2002
• Robert Bussler: Der Rafael Saal. Verzeichnis der im königlichen Orangeriehause zu Sans-Souci auf allerhöchsten Befehl aufgestellten Copien nach Gemälden von Rafael Sanzio. 2. Auflage, Berlin 1861
• Henriette Graf: Das "Boullezimmer" in der Potsdamer Orangerie. In: Weltkunst, Heft 13, München 1999, S. 2207-2209
• Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologisches Landesmuseum und Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.): Peter Joseph Lenne. Parks und Garten im Land Brandenburg. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-217-X

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Coordinates : 52°24′18″ s. sh. 13°01′47″ in. d. /  52.40500° N sh. 13.02972° E d. / 52.40500; 13.02972(G) (I)

An excerpt characterizing the Orangery Palace

The Orangery Palace is the last and largest of the palaces built in the Sanssouci park in Potsdam. It was erected in 1851-1864 by order of King Frederick William IV at the northern border of Sanssouci Park. The palace was conceived as part of the grandiose project "Triumphal Avenue", which was supposed to run from the Triumphal Gate to the Belvedere on Mount Klausberg. However, Frederick William IV did not have time to carry out his plan. The architectural project of the Orangery Palace in the style of the Italian Renaissance was carried out by the architects Ludwig Persius, Friedrich Stüler and Ludwig Hesse according to the sketches of Friedrich Wilhelm IV himself, who was fond of Italian architecture and art. The Medici villas in Rome and the Uffizi in Florence became the prototype of the palace building. The Orangery Palace is located on the top of a hill, on the slopes of which there is a large terraced park. The palace building, 300 meters long, consists of a central two-story building with two towers, the facade of which is decorated with three high open semicircular arches, and two indoor greenhouses adjacent to it, ending with end wings with arched passages. On the first floor of the central building of the palace there is the Raphael Hall, which houses a collection of fifty excellent copies of paintings created in the 19th century by the great Italian painter Raphael Santi, including copies of the paintings "Sistine Madonna" and "Transfiguration". Daylight enters the hall through a large skylight, the walls are covered with red silk wallpaper, against which paintings in gilded frames stand out brightly, the floor mosaic is made of black and white marble. In the central building there are also five guest suites, decorated in the Rococo, Neo-Rococo and Empire styles. One of the numbers was intended for the Russian Emperor Nicholas I and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, the beloved sister of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The guest suites are richly decorated with gilded ornaments, stucco and marble sculptures inspired by ancient myths. Marble, malachite, lacquered wood panels, precious wood parquet, silk wallpapers, mirrors in gilded frames, luxurious furniture and marble statues were used for the decoration of the premises. Most of the furnishings of those times have survived to this day. An art gallery is located in the Raphael Hall, the former guest apartments have been converted into a museum, the servants' quarters are occupied by the main archive of the state of Brandenburg, tubs with exotic plants from the Sanssouci Park are stored in the greenhouses in winter, and the upper platform of the palace is used for outdoor concerts. The palace park, designed by landscape architect Peter Lenne, contains the Paradise, Northern and Sicilian gardens with pine groves, potted palms, myrtle and laurel plantations, flower beds, arcades, alleys, fountains and statues. In 1990, the Orangery Palace was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Sanssouci Palace and Park Ensemble.