Antikentempel
Antikentempel stands in western Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, as a small round temple near the New Palace. Ten Tuscan columns encircle its unadorned exterior.
Carl von Gontard built the structure between 1768 and 1769 for Frederick the Great’s classical collection. Marble urns, bronze figurines, and ten life-sized statues once filled its rooms. The collection came from Cardinal Melchior de Polignac and included thousands of coins and engraved gems in a Coin Chamber. Friedrich Wilhelm III ordered those holdings to Berlin, where the Altes Museum displayed them.
Plans for a court chapel failed, and the building became a Hohenzollern mausoleum in 1921. Grey Silesian marble, antique busts, and wooden benches shape the interior, while Augusta Viktoria and several princes lie interred there. Its ten-column ring forms a beehive tomb within the historic park landscape.
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