Sanssouci Park
Description:
After the terraces of the vineyards were broken and the palace was completed, it was time to arrange the surroundings, where a baroque decorative garden with lawns, flower beds and tree plantations was created. 3000 fruit trees were planted in squares. Oranges, melons, peaches and bananas grew in numerous garden greenhouses. About the unity of decorative and utilitarian gardens say the goddesses Flora and Pomona, decorating the portal with an obelisk at the eastern entrance to the park.
After the construction of other buildings in the park, the main alley 2.5 km long appeared straight as an arrow. It begins in the east of the obelisk erected in 1748 and ends at the New Palace in the west. At the level of the art gallery built in 1764 and the New Chambers, built on the sides of the palace in 1774, the alley opens to rotundas with fountains surrounded by marble sculptures. From this place, among the high bush, the paths leading to different sides of the park diverge in rays.
In the design of the San Sousi Park, Frederick the Great followed an idea already embodied in Neuruppin and Rheinsberg. During his stay in Neuruppin, where as crown prince in 1732-1735 he commanded a regiment, Frederick ordered to set up a decorative and utilitarian garden in his residence. Already here he abandoned the classical baroque decoration of the garden for exclusively representative purposes on the model of Versailles and combined the beautiful with the useful. He remained true to this principle in Rheinsberg. Having converted the palace, presented to him by Father Frederick Wilhelm I, in squares framed with shrub, he ordered to plant fruits and vegetables.
The building of a steam engine in the shape of a mosque on the banks of Hafell in Potsdam
Frederick the Great invested heavily in the fountain system of Sanssouci Park, as fountains were an integral part of the Baroque garden. However, the fountains, as well as the grotto of Neptune built in 1757 in the eastern part of the park, were not used for their purpose. The "fontaniers" employed by Friedrich lacked a professional