Schloss Sacrow
Schloss Sacrow stands in Potsdam’s Sacrow district, with a strictly symmetrical Baroque façade and four rows of windows on each side of its central axis. Johann Ludwig von Hordt, a Swedish general, built the palace in 1773 on the site of an earlier manor house.
King Frederick William IV bought the estate in 1840 and commissioned Ludwig Persius to expand the house and build the nearby Heilandskirche. Peter Joseph Lenné shaped the park with sightlines towards Pfaueninsel, Glienicke, and Babelsberg, while Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is believed to have composed parts of his String Quartet in A minor here. Later changes removed much of the Baroque interior, while restoration has returned parts of the park to Lenné’s design.
Contemporary art exhibitions have filled the palace grounds since 2002, and a café occupies the courtyard of the adjoining building. A protected thousand-year-old oak stands in the park as its most distinctive natural monument.
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