Marstall
Marstall stands in the heart of Potsdam as a Baroque building dating from 1685. Its long, single-storey façade has an added half-storey, round-arched window arcades, Tuscan pilasters, and a triglyph frieze. Half-columns, attics, and horse-tamer sculptures reveal the building’s changing connection with royal stables.
Johann Arnold Nering first designed the structure as an orangery in the French-Dutch style. Frederick William I converted it into a stable for royal horses in 1714, then Frederick the Great commissioned Andreas Krüger to extend it to 33 axes in 1746. Later uses included a garrison museum and a wartime cipher office, while plans for a film museum prevented demolition in the 1960s.
Restoration from 1977 to 1980 prepared the building for the Film Museum Potsdam, which opened there in 1981. Its collection explores Studio Babelsberg, described as the world’s oldest film studio, and screenings include silent films accompanied by a historic organ.
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