The Potsdam palaces the Prussian Palaces foundation keeps

Map of 6 locations in Potsdam, Germany

When the two halves of the old Prussian palaces administration were stitched back together by state treaty on 1 January 1995, the new foundation inherited more than 300 built complexes and almost 800 hectares of garden, most of it the park landscape Peter Joseph Lenné had grouped together in the nineteenth century and UNESCO had listed in 1990. These are the Potsdam houses named in that inventory, from the hill at Sanssouci to the New Garden and Babelsberg. Thirty-seven of the foundation's buildings are open to the public on a regular basis, and the major palace museums here are among them.

Places in this collection

  • Cecilienhof Palace — Cecilienhof was completed in 1917, and its completion is taken as the end of the royal building activity in Berlin and Brandenburg that beg…
  • Babelsberg Palace — Babelsberg Park, 114 hectares, entered the foundation's inventory with the palace, the kitchen buildings, a steam-powered pump house, the F…
  • Marble Palace — The New Garden, 146 hectares around the Holy Lake, came to the foundation with the Marble Palace, Cecilienhof, a dairy, an orangery and a G…
  • Orangery Palace — The Orangery Palace is listed in the Sanssouci Park section of the holdings that passed to the foundation when the treaty took effect on 1…
  • Charlottenhof Palace — Charlottenhof appears in the Sanssouci Park entry of the inventory transferred to the foundation under the 1995 state treaty, listed alongs…
  • Sanssouci — Sanssouci stands in the 289-hectare park that carries its name, one of the holdings written into the inventory when the state treaty creati…

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