Sanssouci is a summer palace built between 1745 and 1747 on a terraced hillside in Potsdam, near Berlin, for the Prussian king Frederick the Great, who intended it as a private retreat and took a close personal role in its design alongside the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Its name, French for without worries, reflects its purpose as an informal escape from the ceremonial demands of the royal court in Berlin, and its single-story main building is considered one of the finest examples of German Rococo architecture. The palace sits atop a series of terraced vineyards, and Frederick was buried, according to his own wishes, on the terrace beside the palace rather than in a grand royal tomb. Sanssouci and its surrounding park form part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990.
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Building Type (category) Connections
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: Sanssouci
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sanssouci
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a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin
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between 1745 and 1747
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Sanssouci is a summer palace built between 1745 and 1747 on a terraced hillside in Potsdam, near Berlin, for the Prussian king Frederick the Great, who intended it as a private retreat and took a close personal role in its design alongside the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Its name, French for without worries, reflects its purpose as an informal escape from the ceremonial demands of the royal court in Berlin, and its single-story main building is considered one of the finest examples of German Rococo architecture. The palace sits atop a series of terraced vineyards, and Frederick was buried, according to his own wishes, on the terrace beside the palace rather than in a grand royal tomb. Sanssouci and its surrounding park form part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990.
- In Style: Rococo Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Rococo
View the Source2. Wikidata: Sanssouci
- Wikidata Q451555, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q451555, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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