{"id":23755,"date":"2023-05-10T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=23755"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T08:25:50","slug":"sanssouci-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/brandenburg\/potsdam\/sanssouci-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Potsdam Sanssouci Park – around Sanssouci Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A visit to Potsdam without strolling through Sanssouci Park is only half a visit. The palace park and palace are Potsdam’s most famous sights worldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

As soon as I step through the entrance gate into the park, I feel like I’m in a fairy tale. Wide paths, past beautiful statues, lead to the castle. Actually, the only thing missing is the horse-drawn carriage that drives past me or the women in their historical dresses who walk past me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can visit the park free of charge and even without going into one of the many buildings, it is a day trip if you want to discover everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Blick<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A park is being created<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Sanssouci Park (Sans=without, Souci=worry) was created according to the ideas of Frederick II after the construction of the palace was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First the vineyard was terraced. This was followed by the design of the immediate surroundings. A baroque ornamental garden with lawns, flowers, hedges and trees in the style of French gardens dominated the picture. In addition, the gardeners laid out kitchen gardens with numerous fruit trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Park<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After more buildings were built in and around the park, the garden planners also extended the park. A dead-straight main avenue was created. It is almost 2 kilometres long and begins in the east at the Obelisk and ends in the west at the New Palace. When the Picture Gallery and the New Chambers were completed, rondels were added to the main avenue. Some of the architects installed fountains and statues on the new roundels. They laid out the new paths in a star shape, leading to the new buildings and landscaped garden areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Rondell<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Water features were an important element in Baroque gardens. Frederick the Great spent a lot of money to have fountains built in his gardens and parks. This was also the case in Sanssouci Park. Unfortunately, the master builder seemed to have little idea. He was unable to channel the water from the basin on Ruinenberg into the park. The planned water features did not work. It was only with the help of steam power that it was possible to operate the water features a good 100 years later. In 1842, the Great Fountain on the vineyard terraces went into operation and the water jet rose 38 metres high. To this day, this fountain is one of the main attractions in Sanssouci Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fontaine<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Frederick William III extended the already quite large park grounds in a southerly direction and donated the area to his son in 1825. After the construction of Charlottenhof Palace was completed, Peter Joseph Lenn\u00e9 began to design the gardens. In the partly marshy terrain, an open landscape park with large meadow areas was created. Only occasionally did Lenn\u00e9 plant groups of trees and shrubs. He took care to maintain a visual axis between Charlottenhof Palace, the Roman Baths and the New Palace with the Temple of Friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tempelanlage<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Buildings in Sanssouci Park<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the 18th and 19th centuries, every Prussian ruler helped shape Sanssouci Park. Architects, sculptors, painters, decorators and garden designers created a park of about 290 hectares in size and a good 70 kilometres in length. In addition, numerous buildings were created that still characterise the park today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n