Loggia Alexandra
The Loggia Alexandra is a Belvedere on the Böttcherberg in Berlin-Wannsee above the Potsdam village of Klein Glienicke . The mountain and loggia in the " Landscape Park Klein Glienicke " are part of the world cultural heritage of the Berlin-Potsdam cultural landscape, which stretches from the Pfaueninsel to Werder and has been under UNESCO protection since 1990 with its castles and gardens .
The small loggia in the style of the Florentine early renaissance is semicircular open towards Potsdam with lines of sight to Babelsberg Palace and the center of Potsdam. The open arched wall contains wall paintings in the style of Pompeian frescoes and decorative wood paneling and is now inaccessible, but protected from view by a glass wall. The floor of the portico has a marble floor , in the middle of the arched wall there is a door with the heading “Alexandra”.
The name is reminiscent of Charlotte of Prussia (1798–1860) who, after marrying the future Tsar Nicholas I, assumed the name "Alexandra Feodorowna". Her brother Prince Carl von Prussia had the building built in 1869/1870 to commemorate his late favorite sister as a tea and viewing area. The sculptor Alexander Gilli and the builder Ernst Petzholtz provided the designs . Prince Carl chose the construction date ten years after the death of his sister to commemorate the famous knight tournament "Blanche Fleur" 40 years earlier, which on July 13, 1829 in front of the New Palais of Sanssouci formed the climax of the birthday celebrations in honor of the Tsarina. “Blanche Fleur” or “The Magic of the White Rose” referred to Charlotte's family nickname.
The door, which is only visible through the safety glazing and therefore inaccessible, leads into a narrow interior in which a marble bust of the tsarina was set up, which no longer exists. A staircase leads from this room to a viewing platform with a divided parapet. A turret adjoins one side of the loggia.
Originally, the garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné wanted to build a cottage on this site, as a design from 1831 shows. Lenné designed the Babelsberg Park opposite and included the Böttcherberg in his work.
The brick building underwent an extensive restoration between 1997 and 2000 , which was preceded by intensive art-historical research, so that the frescoes and mosaics in particular have been restored to a large extent true to the original. The zinc covers of the parapet and the turret received a traditional handcraft renovation. The total cost was around 1.7 million DM, some of which was raised by private foundations. A wrought iron gate fence could only insufficiently protect the structure until 1997. In order to master the vandalism and to keep the weather outside, the state of Berlin decided to use today's safety glazing.
With boulder
turret
View from the mountain around 1845
Inside door "Alexandra"
Draft of the Pompeian wall painting inside. Drawing by Alexander Gilli, around 1869
Web links
- Charlotte of Prussia, Russian Tsarina. Preußen.de
- The Alexandra Loggia . Different Berlin
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 42 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 19 ″ E