Architectural guided tour SCHINKEL AND LENNÉ IN POTSDAM

The congenial partnership between Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s architecture and Peter Joseph Lenné’s landscape gardening takes us back to the very roots of Modernism. Both architects virtuously orchestrated the period of enlightenment’s ideal of a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ with an ingenious choreography visual panoramas, palaces, pavilions and architectural features like terraces, arcades, sculptures and fountains, set in the midst of a beautiful natural landscape. The tour introduces the works of Schinkel and Lenné and sets them in relation with the historical architecture of the Sanssouci Park and the glienicke Palace Gardens.

Buildings visited in the course of the tour – including interior visits: Meeting point: Green Fence (Grünes Gitter); Marly Gardens and Church of Peace (Friedenskirche): Peter Joseph Lenné and Ludwig Persius, Friedrich August Stüler; Sanssouci Palace and vineyard terraces: Friedrich II. and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff; Guided walk through Sanssouci Park: Orangery terraces, main boulevard, Baroque Gardens etc.; Roman Baths and Charlottenhof Palace: architecture and gardens by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius and Peter Joseph Lenné; Transfer to Glienicke Bridge via bus or tram; Glienicke Bridge: view to Babelsberg Castle and Gardens, to Klein-Glienicke Palace and Gardens, to Sacrow Palace, Park and the Church of the Redeemer (Heilandskirche), to Heiliger See and the New Garden; view of the Havel, return to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof via bus or tram

Duration approximately 3.5 hours