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New Garden in Potsdam

The new garden is a simplicity and harmonious park in Potsdam. There are not many buildings here, its considerable territory is occupied by forest, lawns and lawns. The main buildings of the New Garden are the Cecilienhof and Marble palaces.

New Garden (Neuer Garten), photo riesebusch

Potsdam's New Garden (Neuer Garten) is a vast parkland covering an area of ​​102.5 hectares on the north side of the city. The park is adjacent to the lakes of St. and Jungfernsee. The construction of the park began in 1787 by order of King Frederick William II.

The brainchild of King Frederick William II

Even when Frederick William II was crown prince, he acquired a plot of land near the Holy Lake, and then expanded this territory with adjacent vineyards and orchards. A year after the crown prince took over the throne in the park, work began, he was to become a model of modern views on park architecture and qualitatively differ from the outdated utilitarian and decorative gardens built in Sanssouci by Frederick the Great.

The king visited the principality of Anhalt-Dessau and got acquainted with the Wörlitz gardens - the first large landscape park in Europe, arranged according to the English model. This park corresponded to the king's ideals in garden art. The realization of these ideals was entrusted to the Werlitz gardener Eiserbek. He began to create, as he himself said, "a sentimental garden in a sentimental landscape."

Cecilienhof Palace, photo by draisdorf

In the 19th century, English landscape gardens spread widely. Their main elements were only trees, water and meadows. The garden, arranged in the 18th century, was distinguished by the formation of relatively separate zones, in which small elements of garden architecture were decorations. The design imitating nature emphasized the landscape style: all shrubs and trees should have looked natural. When creating the garden, 13 thousand deciduous and coniferous trees were planted.

Palace kitchen, stylized as ancient temple ruins, photo olaf oehlsen

The rural life with cows grazing in the meadows and a dairy farm that processed milk into cheese and butter also fit into the picture of the New Garden. There are also preserved garden houses, which stood here even before the construction of the garden, included in its design and named for their colors - Brown, White, Green and Red houses.

In 1816, Peter Joseph Lenne arrived in Potsdam. It was he who put the garden in order, cleaned "everything superfluous", turning it into a park with vast spaces and meadows and with excellent views of the surroundings - on the island of Pfaueninzel, the Glienicke Palace, Babelsberg.

Marble Palace on the shores of the Holy Lake, photo by Dietmar Schwanitz

New Garden Buildings

  • Marble Palace
  • Greenhouse,
  • Palace kitchen in the form of temple ruins,
  • gothic library
  • milk farm,
  • pyramid,
  • shell grotto
  • Hermitage at Jungfernsee,
  • Dutch style houses
  • Cecilienhof Palace.

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