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Continuing the walk through Park Sans Souci from
the New Palace you will come to the Orangery Palace.

The Orangery Palace (German: Orangerieschloss) is also
known as the New Orangery on the Klausberg, or just the
Orangery. It was built by the Romantic on the Throne,
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in his seat of Potsdam, from 1851 to 1864.

The building of the Orangery began with a plan for a
high street or triumph street. It was to begin at the
triumph arch, east of Sanssouci Park, and end at the
Belvedere on the Klausberg. A difference of elevation
was to be balanced with viaducts.

With reference to the north side of the Picture Gallery
and the New Chambers from the time of Friedrich the
Great, Friedrich Wilhelm IV sketched out more new
buildings, which would decorate his two kilometer long
Via Tiumphalis.

Because of the political unrest of the period (March
Revolution) and lack of funding, the gigantic project
never materialized. Only the Orangery Palace and the
Triumphtor were ever realized.

The construction of the Orangery Palace began after
preliminary drawings by Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The
architects Friedrich August Stüler and Ludwig Ferdinand
Hesse were commissioned to turn the drawings into a reality.

The building, with its 300 meter long front, was built
in the style of the Italian Renaissance, after the
image of the Villa Medici in Rome and the Uffizi in
Florence.

The middle building with its twin towers is the actual
castle. This building is joined to the 103 meter long
and 16 meter wide Plant Hall, with its almost
ceiling-to-floor windows on the south side. In the
western hall, the original floor duct heating system is
still present and functioning. In the alcoves along
the garden side of the castle annex, there are
allegorical figures of the months and seasons. In the
corner building at the end of the Orangery Hall were
the royal apartments and the servants' quarters.

In front of the peristyle Elizabeth, Friedrich Wilhelm
IV's wife, had a statue of the king erected in Memoriam
after his death in 1861.

[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery_Palace]

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