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Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

Ansicht der Gartenseite über das Bassin © SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
Blick von Norden © SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

New Palace, Potsdam
Plögersches Figurenrondell, Pomona mit Früchten, Silenmit einer Tierkeule © SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
© SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

Palace and Park Sanssouci, Potsdam
© SPSG / Foto: Leo Seidel

Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam
© SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

Chinese House, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
© SPSG / Foto: Wolfgang Pfauder

Sanssouci Palace by night
© SPSG / Foto: Hans Bach

Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam

The prussian palaces and gardens in Berlin and Brandenburg are central testimony to German culture and history. The Prussian palaces and gardens present an unique possibility to experience the many facets of Brandenburg-Prussian art and history. For more than three centuries the rulers of Brandenburg commissioned the best artists of their time to enhance the Royal residences in and around Berlin with elaborate palaces and gardens. There was building activity under a long series of Prussian monarchs: from Joachim II to the Great Elector, from Frederick the Great to the last of the German emperors, William II. The resulting works of architecture and landscape gardening, especially in Berlin and Potsdam, have earned international renown.

Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
Postfach 60 14 62
14414 Potsdam

Email: info@spsg.de
Website: http://www.spsg.de

A state treaty established the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) as a public body on 1 January 1995. The task of the SPSG is to maintain the entrusted cultural assets with regard to historical, art-historical, horticultural and conservation issues. This also includes replenishing the inventory of the cultural heritage, making it accessible to the public and academically evaluating it in the interest of the general public and in particular of scholarship and education. The SPSG currently administers more than 300 buildings with their furnishings and interiors and also more than 700 hectares of garden, including Sanssouci Palaces and Parks, the Potsdam Royal New Palace and Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin and Rheinsberg Palace in Brandenburg.