Carriage horse stable
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The Kutschpferdstall ( Kutschstall for short ) is an architectural monument on the Neuer Markt in Potsdam . It was built in the years 1787–1789 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger in the classicism style. The former carriage horse stable of the city palace has housed the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History since 2003 .
history
Alongside direct stables for the royal horses at the site of the City Palace of built Prussian court architect Andreas Ludwig Krüger with the sculptors John Eckstein and Johann Christoph and Michael Christoph Wohler in the years 1787 to 1789 in the neoclassical architectural style the coach stables with elaborate Fassadenornamentik and a portal Type of a Roman triumphal arch with four free-standing Tuscan columns made of Rothenburg sandstone on the front side of the stable for 100 royal carriage horses. The building, which is also known for short as the coach stable, also had rooms on the upper floor for pioneers and stable lads, and in the courtyard there were sheds for the associated coaches.
On the portal cornices there are two groups of figures that frame a quadriga with the sculpture of Johann Georg Pfund, the body coachman of Frederick the Great . After the First World War , the mounted police initially used the horse stables. The buildings were later used as a tennis hall, furniture store, garages, workshops and, from 1940, as a fruit and vegetable market. After the fire damage as a result of the night of bombing in 1945 , the property was repaired again and was first used again in the following decades as a workshop - this time for car repairs - and later as a warehouse for the fruit, vegetable and table potato wholesale business . After their complete renovation, the buildings have been used as museum rooms for the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History since 2003 . The coach stable is closed due to renovation until September 2020.
View from the northeast, before 1945
Portal of the horse-drawn stables, before 1945
Quadriga of the horse-drawn stables, before 1945
literature
- Friedrich Mielke : Potsdam architecture - the classic Potsdam. Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 978-3-549-06648-5 , pp. 69, 90, 397.
- Jutta Götzmann, Thomas Wernicke, Kurt Winkler (eds.): Potsdam-Lexikon, Stadtgeschichte von A to Z. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942476-03-4 , pp. 219f.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- House of Brandenburg-Prussian History
- The king's coachman
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 25 ″ E