Marstall (Potsdam)

View of the Marstall from the Breite Straße

Portal of the stables, before 1945

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

Commons : Marstall Potsdam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
• Film Museum Potsdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adelheid Schendel, Jerzy Prrzytański: The New Chambers in Sanssouci Park. Potsdam-Sanssouci 1987, p. 7
2. ↑ Helmut Caspar: Princes, Heroes, Great Spirits , Monument Stories from the Mark Brandenburg, Berlin Edition 2004, pp. 79–80
3. ↑ https://www.spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/masterplan/details/ablossen-marstall-potsdam/

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 42.8 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 30 ″  E