Marstall (Potsdam)
The Marstall is a monument on the Breiten Straße in Potsdam . Built in 1685 by Johann Arnold Nering in the Baroque style as an orangery , it has been rebuilt and expanded several times over the course of history. The former riding horse stable of the city palace is the oldest preserved building in the city and has been home to the Potsdam Film Museum since 1981 .
history
In 1685, the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm had an orangery built next to the city palace by court architect Johann Arnold Nering . It received a northern heating course for the winter, which was later also used in the new chambers . In 1714, the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I had the western part of the pleasure garden converted into a parade ground and the previous orangery into a stable for the royal riding horses. The orange trees were moved to a glass house in the Marly Gardens .
The royal stables were given their present form in 1746 on behalf of Frederick the Great by court builder Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff , who rebuilt and expanded the building and decorated the portals with monumental horse sculptures by the sculptor Friedrich Christian Glume . The nearby coach stable was built for the royal carriage horses in 1790 . After the end of the monarchy, the now useless stables were converted into a garrison museum in 1922.
During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged, especially the roof and the horse sculptures, but the planned establishment of a film museum in the 1960s saved it from demolition. After the reconstruction between 1977 and 1980, the Filmmuseum Potsdam finally opened in 1981 . The Marstall, which has also housed a restaurant since 2003, was last renovated in 2014.
literature
- Friedrich Mielke : Potsdam architecture - the classic Potsdam. Propylaeen-Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 978-3-549-06648-5 , pp. 58, 68, 395.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adelheid Schendel, Jerzy Prrzytański: The New Chambers in Sanssouci Park. Potsdam-Sanssouci 1987, p. 7
- ↑ Helmut Caspar: Princes, Heroes, Great Spirits , Monument Stories from the Mark Brandenburg, Berlin Edition 2004, pp. 79–80
- ↑ https://www.spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/masterplan/details/ablossen-marstall-potsdam/
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 42.8 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ E