# Goldene Terrasse

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Goldene Terrasse forms part of Babelsberg Palace in Babelsberg Park, Potsdam, among historic gardens beside the Havel. Prince Wilhelm and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar spent more than fifty years of summer days at this residence. The palace presents an expression of Wilhelm I’s era, with terraces designed as castle rooms beneath the open sky.

Construction began in 1833 for the Prussian prince and his wife, following plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Ludwig Persius and Johann Heinrich Strack continued the work after Schinkel’s death. The imperial couple shaped the interiors and furnishings of their favourite residence into a Gesamtkunstwerk through the 1880s. A ballroom with a starry ceiling and an impressive view remain especially distinctive features.

A gilded planted trellis before Augusta’s former study gives the terrace its name. Restored floor mosaics and golden steel-cable flowerbed borders recall ship ropes across the terrace surfaces. Cast-iron garden furniture complements the surrounding terraces, while nearby paths lead towards the Flatow Tower, Court Arbor and Sailor’s House. The reconstructed trellis, preserved from original parts, adds a precise golden detail to the palace setting.

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