Winzerberg
The Winzerberg is located in Potsdam and is to the east opposite the Sanssouci Park . The entrance from the southern foot of the hill is formed by the imposing triumphal gate . The Winzerberg is part of the administration of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , is maintained by a support association, which has already completely restored it and has been part of the Potsdam World Cultural Heritage since 1990 .
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The Winzerberg is made up of four terraces, which are stepped like a staircase towards the south by five slope walls and which rise a good 17 meters behind an approximately 3,500 square meter front area. From there, the winegrower's house at the highest point can be reached directly via an outside staircase on the western edge or from behind via a ramp on the eastern edge. The first vineyard terrace can be reached via the central, double-barreled Bacchus staircase , with which one overcomes the lowest, highest of the hillside walls. The area is surrounded by a wall, the entrance portal of which represents the triumphal gate and which is formed from the outside into semicircular exedra benches and sculpture niches .
Winemaker's house
At the northwesternmost point of the Winzerberg, on the upper hanging wall, is the listed winegrower's house, a tower villa built in this form in 1849 based on designs by master builder Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse . This was created by converting the existing building from the early days of the facility as well as staggered extensions and superstructures in the Italian style. To the south, a flight of stairs, from which the individual terraces can be reached, leads down the hill, on the plateau a vine arbor up to the eastern edge, where on the opposite side a ramp runs parallel to the stairs.
history
With the expansion of the Sanssouci palace complex , the Winzerberg was created below the Mühlenberg from 1763 through the arrangement of terraces by the architect Christian Ludwig Hildebrandt . The five hillside walls were built with a total length of about 300 meters, behind whose glazed climbing walls, from 1764, wine and fruit (apples and pears) could thrive as if they were in a greenhouse .
During the first renovation work between 1790 and 1794, stone sleepers were used, from 1848 the terraces were renewed by the court architect Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and in 1849 the winegrower's house was built on the top of the hill. Landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné redesigned the Winzerberg into a Tuscan vineyard.
A fair-faced wall with a double staircase was erected in front of the lower terrace. In the center of it is the tonic half-relief of a Bacchus head, from which the staircase owes its name to the Bacchus staircase . Sculpture niches were built into the wall for zinc casts of other ancient statues. On the upper slope walls, parapets and a pergola were built as a space-defining colonnade.
In 1944 an air raid shelter was built under the Winzerberg, but it could not be fully completed. Three tunnels, which were driven up to 100 meters into the mountain, could provide protection for around 300 people.
After 1945, parts of the vineyard tunnels were filled with debris from the area and later attempted to be blown up by the Soviet occupiers, but only the entrance area was buried. In the period that followed, the terraces became increasingly dilapidated and overgrown, also due to the effects of a leaking water pipe, which was discovered and shut down in 1980.
In 1996 the tunnels were examined and the statics of the hill checked. Hollow spots were filled in and the system was secured. The facilities were restored between 2004 and 2017 and opened in 2018 by the private development association Bauverein Winzerberg and have been taking care of their maintenance ever since. For this work, the association was awarded the Brandenburg Monument Preservation Prize 2016 and the Europa Nostra Prize 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Winzerberg building association. Bauverein Winzerberg eV, 2004, accessed on April 21, 2017 .
- ^ Royal garden pleasure in Park Sanssouci. Deutscher Kunstverlag, June 2014, accessed on April 21, 2017 .
- ^ Reopening of the Potsdamer Winzerberg. Der Tagesspiegel , September 7, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Winzerberg building association. Bauverein Winzerberg eV, September 2016, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Winzerberg building association. Bauverein Winzerberg eV, July 2018, accessed on August 14, 2018 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '12.8 " N , 13 ° 2' 40.6" E