Chinesisches Parasol
Chinesisches Parasol is a garden bench beneath a parasol in Potsdam’s New Garden. Open meadows, solitary trees, and winding paths surround the seat, with views towards the Holy Lake and the Havel River. Established in the late eighteenth century under Frederick William II of Prussia, the garden follows the English landscape style rather than nearby Sanssouci’s Baroque design.
The Marble Palace brings early Prussian classicism into this landscape, with a cubic brick structure clad in Silesian marble. Carl von Gontard designed it, and Michael Philipp Boumann later expanded the building. Cecilienhof Palace adds an early twentieth-century setting associated with the Potsdam Conference of 1945. Here, the bench places you beneath a parasol among trees, lawns, lakes, and historic buildings.
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