Top 20 Castles in Brandenburg

Beautifully situated on the water. It's definitely worth taking a look at the complex from the outside.

Really beautiful, with lots of nature around and cool design

The Marble Palace is romantically situated on a terraced complex directly on the lake shore in the New Garden. King Friedrich Wilhelm II had the building clad in Silesian marble built as a summer residence between 1787 and 1793. Its architect Carl von Gontard created the first and only Prussian royal palace in the style of early classicism. The king, who was artistically inclined and associated with the ideas of the Rosicrucians, used the palace and garden as a private retreat. The vestibule made entirely of different colored marble, the grotto hall located directly on the water and the impressive concert hall are the highlights of the early classical rooms of the castle, most of which are still in their original form. https://www.spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/objekt/marmorpalais/

From the shore bike path through the New Park you can see the back of the world-famous castle. Right next to the entrance area there is a spacious bicycle parking lot, you can drive up to here and leave your two-wheeler here. It is then a 100 meter walk to the entrance. Information: https://www.spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/objekt/schloss-cecilienhof/

Sanssouci Palace Sanssouci (from French sans souci 'without worry') is an ensemble of palaces and gardens in the former residential city of Potsdam. From 1747 to 1918 it served as the summer residence of the Prussian kings and German emperors. From 1745, Sanssouci Palace, the Picture Gallery, the New Chambers and the New Palace were built in the style of Frederician Rococo by Knobelsdorff, Unger and Gontard on behalf of and based on the ideas of Frederick II. From 1825, Schinkel, Stüler and Persius built the Charlottenhof Palace, the Roman Baths, the Church of Peace and the Orangery Palace in the classicist style on behalf of and based on the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Lenné transformed the approximately 300 hectare Sanssouci Park with the historic mill, the Chinese House, the Dragon House and the Belvedere from a French architectural garden into an English landscape garden. The ensemble managed by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Sanssouci is also called the Prussian Versailles because of its art-historical importance. Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanssouci

Cecilienhof Palace Cecilienhof Palace, an ensemble of buildings in the English country house style, was built between 1913 and 1917 according to plans by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg. It is located in the northern part of the New Garden in Potsdam, not far from the shore of Jungfernsee. The last Hohenzollern palace was built under Emperor Wilhelm II for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Cecilie from the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Cecilienhof became world-historically known as the site of the Potsdam Conference from July 17 to August 2, 1945. Since then there has been a five-pointed Soviet star made of red flowers on the lawn in the main courtyard, the first planting of which was carried out by garden inspector Paul Molske (1875-1947). Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilienhof

Marble Palace The Marble Palace in the New Garden in Potsdam was the summer palace of King Frederick William II of Prussia. The architects Carl von Gontard, Carl Gotthard Langhans and Michael Philipp Boumann built it in the early classicist style between 1787 and 1793 and 1797 in an English park designed by Johann August Eyserbeck close to the banks of the river. The “new house” was the private life of the musically gifted man Reserved for the king. With this new building, the nephew and successor of Frederick the Great, who remained childless, distanced himself spatially and architecturally from his little-loved uncle, who preferred rococo forms with Palladian echoes throughout his life. At the same time, however, it is the stylistic continuation of a pleasure palace (of the baroque Maison de plainsance type) into the new age of classicism, similar to the slightly earlier Wörlitz.Heiligen Sees Castle. Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmorpalais

Babelsberg Castle Babelsberg Palace is the former summer residence of the German Emperor Wilhelm I. It is located in Babelsberg Park in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam and was built in the Tudor style from 1834, based on the English Windsor Castle. The residence was built in two phases. First, in 1834/35, the eastern area with rooms for Wilhelm and his wife Augusta was built according to plans by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Between 1844 and 1849, according to plans by Ludwig Persius, the western palace complex with ballrooms and rooms for the two children of the princely couple was added. The castle has been the scene of important historical events. These included a visit by British Queen Victoria in 1858, the appointment of Otto von Bismarck as Prussian Prime Minister in 1862 and the signing of the so-called Socialist Law in 1878. After the death of Wilhelm I in 1888, the palace lost its political and cultural significance. A conversion of the palace into a summer residence for the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, planned by the Prussian Oberhof Baurat Albert Geyer, was rejected in 1908 after the first preparatory building work for cost reasons. After the end of the monarchy, the administration of the Prussian State Palaces and Gardens had the palace converted into a museum in 1927. As such it lasted until the Second World War. During the war years, the comparatively remote palace was considered a safe depot for works of art from other Potsdam residences. It was largely spared from the destruction of war. After being taken by the Red Army, the historical furnishings were confiscated and taken to the Soviet Union as war trophies. Some of the furniture and paintings were not returned in 1958 either. Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Babelsberg