Type Palace Country Germany Opened 1849 Construction started 1835 | Town or city Potsdam Completed 1849 Phone +49 331 9694200 | |
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Client Prince (later Emperor)
William I Address Park Babelsberg 10, 14482 Potsdam, Germany Owner Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg Architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Heinrich Strack Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, Tudor architecture Similar Babelsberg Park, Marmorpalais, New Garden - Potsdam, Cecilienhof, Glienicke Palace | ||
Babelsberg Palace (German: Schloss Babelsberg) lies in the eponymous park and quarter of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, near Berlin. For over 50 years it was the summer residence of Prince William, later Emperor William I and his wife, Augusta of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
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History
The building, designed in the English Gothic revival style, was built in two phases over the period 1835–1849. The contract to plan the palace was given to the architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius and Johann Heinrich Strack.
On 22 September 1862 in the palace and adjoining park the discussion between King William I of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck took place that ended with the nomination of Bismarck as Minister President and Foreign Minister of Prussia.
The architecture of Babelsberg Palace formed the template for the construction of Kittendorf Palace between 1848 and 1853 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, by Schinkel's pupil, Friedrich Hitzig.
World Heritage Site
Since 1990, Babelsberg Palace has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin". The palace is administered by the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg.
Since 2013, the palace has been undergoing an intense renovation of its facades and interiors.