Schloß Lindstedt

Schloß Lindstedt stands in Potsdam, a late-classical palace built between 1858 and 1861 under King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. A main building, a tower with a belvedere and a temple-like annex with a high staircase make up the ensemble. A colonnade connects the palace to the Lindstedter Chaussee and anchors it in the surrounding landscape. Peter Joseph Lenné laid out the gardens around it.

The von Bülow family owned the ground before King Friedrich Wilhelm III acquired it in 1828. The estate's first job under the crown was breeding carp. Friedrich Wilhelm IV then planned the place as his retirement residence and contributed more than a hundred drawings to the design. Ludwig Persius, Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse, August Stüler and Ferdinand von Arnim turned those ideas into architecture. Even so, the finished design pared the original grand plans back to a minimum. Prussia's king never enjoyed the retreat: he died before completion, and his brother King Wilhelm I finished the work.

The decades after brought new roles, from quarantine station during epidemics to residence for state officials. After World War I, General Erich von Falkenhayn held the lease, and the Botanical Institute and the Institute of Forensic Medicine followed. Since 1996 the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg has looked after the building, which it lets out for events. It belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Potsdam's palaces and gardens. From Lenné's gardens, your view takes in the house and the nearby Neues Palais.