16 Facts About Sanssouci Palace

Sanssouci Palace is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin.

Sanssouci Palace is little more than a large, single-story villa—more like the Chateau de Marly than Versailles.

Sanssouci Palace employed the architect Ludwig Persius to restore and enlarge the palace, while Ferdinand von Arnim was charged with improving the grounds and thus the view from the palace.

The design of the New Sanssouci Palace was intended to demonstrate that Prussia's capabilities were undiminished despite its near defeat in the Seven Years' War.

Unlike the Trianons, Sanssouci was not an afterthought to escape the larger palace, for the simple reason that the larger palace did not exist at the time of Sanssouci's conception; and once it did, Frederick almost never stayed in the New Palace except on rare occasions when entertaining diplomats he wished to impress.

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Sanssouci Palace is small, with the principal block being a narrow single-storey enfilade of just ten rooms, including a service passage and staff rooms behind them.

Sanssouci Palace insisted on a building on the ground level, of which the pedestal was the hill: in short, this was to be a private pleasure house.

Sanssouci Palace's recurring theme and requirement was for a house with close connections between its style and free nature.

Sanssouci Palace ordered the construction of a new palace in the new more fashionable style, and stayed at Sanssouci only occasionally.

Sanssouci Palace has a single-storey principal block with two flanking side wings.

Sanssouci Palace arranged his private apartments according to his personal taste and needs, often ignoring the current trends and fashions.

Sanssouci Palace is generally entered through the Entrance Hall, where the restrained form of the classical external colonnade was continued into the interior.

Panoramic vista of the garden of Sanssouci Palace is the result of Frederick the Great's decision to create a terraced vineyard on the south slope of the hills of Bornstedt.

Frederick invested heavily in a vain attempt to introduce a fountain system in Sanssouci Palace Park, attempting to emulate the other great Baroque gardens of Europe.

Broad meadows created visual avenues between Charlottenhof, the Roman Baths and the New Sanssouci Palace, and incorporated the follies such as the Temple of Friendship of Frederick the Great.

The City Palace, Potsdam, containing architectural work by Knobelsdorff was demolished in 1960, but Sanssouci survived unscathed and the East German government endeavoured to have Sanssouci placed on the list of World Heritage Sites.