With the completion of Sanssouci Palace in 1748, Frederick II's summer residence became a place where, in addition to his daily political business, the king preferred to spend time with the arts and sciences, away from courtly ceremonial. The round table of Frederick II in Sanssouci Palace became a legend at the latest through the illustration of it by Adolph Menzel in the 19th century. Here the king surrounded himself with important representatives of the French Enlightenment. They tried to give important impulses in the fields of art, music and enlightened reforms in the Kingdom of Prussia. The special tour of the king's apartment in Sanssouci Palace focuses on the participants of the royal round table and poses the question of the influence as well as the limits of enlightened thinking on the views and decisions of King Frederick II.

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