13 November 2017 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Berlin , Hotels , Museums, Exhibitions , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks , UNESCO World Heritage
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Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in
Potsdam ,
Brandenburg built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English
Tudor manor house . Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the
House of Hohenzollern that ruled the
Kingdom of Prussia and the
German Empire until the end of
World War I . Cecilienhof has been part of the
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Cecilienhof is located in the northern part of the large
New Garden park, close to the shore of the
Jungfernsee lake. The park was laid out from 1787 at the behest of
King Frederick William II of Prussia , modelled on the
Wörlitz Park in
Anhalt-Dessau . Frederick William II also had the
Marmorpalais (Marble Palace) built within the Neuer Garten, the first Brandenburg palace in the
Neoclassical style erected according to plans designed by
Carl von Gontard and
Carl Gotthard Langhans , which was finished in 1793. Other structures within the park close to Schloss Cecilienhof include an
orangery , an artificial grotto (Muschelgrotte), the “Gothic Library”, and the
Dairy in the New Garden, also constructed for King Frederick William II. The park was largely redesigned as an
English landscape garden according to plans by
Peter Joseph Lenné from 1816 onwards, with lines of sight to nearby
Pfaueninsel ,
Glienicke Palace ,
Babelsberg Palace , and the
Church of the Redeemer .
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22 April 2015 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Berlin , Museums, Exhibitions , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks , UNESCO World Heritage
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Alexandrowka is the Russian Colony in the north of
Potsdam . It consists of thirteen wooden houses in Russian style, which were built between 1826 and 1827 on special wish of the former Prussian king,
Friedrich Wilhelm III . Originally the colony was the home of the Russian singers of the First Prussian Regiment of the Guards. The blockhouses are surrounded by generous gardens. In the north of the colony the Kapellenberg borders, a hill on which the
Alexander-Newski-Church was especially constructed for the Russian colonists.
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