Schloss Babelsberg - Babelsberg Palace - Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
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Park Babelsberg 10
14482 Potsdam
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Schloss Babelsberghttp://www.spsg.de/index.php?id=130
Babelsberg Palace was built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the charming hilly countryside on the Havel River in 1833 as a summer residence for the later Emperor William I and his wife Augusta. Inspired by Tudor style English models, Schinkel created the first neo-Gothic palace on the continent. Schinkel´s concept was modified through later additions by Ludwig Persius and Johann Heinrich Strack. Few of the original furnishings and interior decorations, which were also predominantly in the neo-Gothic style, have survived. The extensive park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné and Prince von Pückler-Muskau as an English landscape garden.
Related Topics
Fürst von Pückler Muskau, Kaiserin Augusta, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Neogothic, Peter Joseph Lenné, Tudor, Wilhelm I.
