Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg

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Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
(SPSG)
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding January 1, 1995
founder Berlin, Brandenburg
Seat Potsdam
purpose Maintenance, scientific research and communication of culture
Chair Christoph Martin Vogtherr
Website www.spsg.de

The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , SPSG for short , was established as a public law foundation after the reunification of Germany with a state treaty of 23 August 1994 between the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg . On January 1, 1995, the contract came into force. The foundation is independent of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation .

history

The SPSG is an association formed by the division of Germany incurred administrations "State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam Sanssouci" ( DDR ) and the "Management of State Palaces and Gardens Berlin" ( West Berlin ). These institutions emerged from the Prussian "Administration of State Palaces and Gardens", which was founded on April 1, 1927 and dissolved in 1945 after the property dispute between the House of Hohenzollern and the Prussian state.

The foundation is based in Potsdam . The sponsors are the federal states of Berlin (21.35%) and Brandenburg (36.60%) as well as the federal government (42.05%) (as of 2007). The foundation receives further support from numerous development associations and private sponsors.

The foundation was included in the Blue Book published in 2001. The Blue Book is a list of nationally important cultural institutions in East Germany and currently includes 20 so-called cultural lighthouses . The selection of the cultural sites was made on the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in coordination with the East German ministers of culture.

The tasks of the foundation

Over three hundred years of construction activity, the Brandenburg-Prussian rulers created palaces and gardens of international importance. In 1990 the palaces and gardens in Potsdam, the Pfaueninsel in Berlin and the Glienicke Palace and Park were placed under UNESCO protection as World Heritage sites .

In order to preserve the culturally and historically significant facilities and buildings, the SPSG is obliged under the State Treaty Act, Article 2 (1), "to preserve the cultural assets that have been handed over to it, taking into account historical, art and garden-historical and monument preservation issues To supplement the inventory, to make it accessible to the public and to enable the evaluation of this cultural property for the interests of the general public, especially in science and education. "

In addition to the monument preservation task and the opening of the palace complex for tours, special events and special exhibitions, especially on topics of Prussian cultural history, are held every year. Concerts such as the “Potsdam Palace Night” in Potsdam-Sanssouci or the International Opera Festival of Young Singers “Chamber Opera” in Rheinsberg Palace have been among the well-attended events in the palace complex for years.

Real estate

The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation looks after and administers around 30 museum palaces and other museums, 800 hectares of protected parks, 100,000 individual works of art, 150 monuments and 300 buildings with around 550 employees . In May 2018, the Foundation moved into the central art depot southeast of Potsdam Central Station .

Potsdam

Sanssouci Palace
Orangery Castle
Belvedere on the Pfingstberg
Sacrow Castle

Berlin

Schloss Charlottenburg

Rural area

Caputh Castle

Directors

Administration of State Palaces and Gardens

  • Paul Huebner, 1927–1929
  • Ernst Gall , provisional since the end of 1929, 1930–1946 (briefly suspended from office between 1933 and 1934)

Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens Berlin (West Berlin)

State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci (GDR)

Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg

The asset dispute

After the First World War and the end of the monarchy, the assets, property and real estate of the House of Hohenzollern were confiscated by the new government in November 1918. After eight years of negotiations between the former royal family and the Prussian state with the aim of reaching a settlement , a "law on the property dispute between the Prussian state and the members of the former ruling Prussian royal family" was passed on October 26, 1926.

This was preceded by a referendum aimed at by social democratic and communist parties with the aim of expropriating all twenty-two princely houses of the German Reich without compensation . The vote carried out on June 20, 1926, the first in the Weimar Republic , brought 14.5 million votes in favor of a "law on the expropriation of princely property". However, the number of votes of at least 20 million required for implementation was not achieved.

As a result of further concessions on the part of the House of Hohenzollern, a contract between the former royal house and the Prussian government was ratified in October 1926. The real estate and land that remained as property, which was mainly in the east of the former German Reich, was lost due to destruction and expropriation during and after the Second World War . Only a fraction of the property granted by the treaty was preserved. Today only Hohenzollern Castle near Hechingen ( Baden-Württemberg ) is owned by the House of Hohenzollern.

For the administration and maintenance of the state-owned buildings and gardens, the Prussian “Administration of State Palaces and Gardens” was founded on April 1, 1927 and made the palace complexes accessible to the public as museums. Here, too, there were considerable losses due to the effects of the war, loss of territory and theft of cultural property by the Soviet Army . Although art treasures from the Soviet Union came back to Germany in 1955 and 1957/58 , the SPSG palaces are still missing more than 3000 oil paintings, around 1000 sculptures, thousands of porcelain, furniture, 80,000 volumes from the royal libraries and several thousand graphics.

Image rights

Parking regulations at a gate of Sanssouci

In 2010 the foundation won a legal dispute over the exploitation of photographs of its properties before the Federal Court of Justice. The much-criticized judgment was confirmed in a second appeal in 2013 by the Federal Court of Justice. The position of the Foundation on Panorama Freedom represented in this process was sharply criticized by the German Association of Journalists , which believes that this violates the freedom of the press. In its guidelines on photo, film and television recordings, the SPSG declares all recordings to be subject to approval. The only exceptions are "recordings of buildings and facilities that are located on public roads, paths or places (Section 59 UrhG) and small-scale external recordings for private purposes".

See also

Web links

Commons : Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State treaty on the establishment of a "Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg". Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Holger Catenhusen: Castle Foundation depot: 28,000 art treasures move into the new building . In: Potsdam's latest news . May 10, 2018 ( pnn.de [accessed July 8, 2018]).
  3. ^ MAZ: A depot for 1700 valuable paintings. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ BGH, judgment of December 17, 2010 - V ZR 44/10 - Sanssouci I = GRUR 2011, p. 323 with a negative note from Lehment
  5. ↑ BGH, judgment of March 1, 2013 - V ZR 14/12 - Sanssouci II = GRUR 2013, p. 623 with a negative comment by Elmenhorst
  6. ^ German Association of Journalists: Details on the Sanssouci judgment
  7. ^ Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG): Guidelines: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens. In: www.spsg.de. Retrieved August 24, 2015 .

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