Sanssouci Palace
Sanssouci is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours:
April—October: public holidays and Tuesday—Sunday 9:00 AM—5:30 PM
November—May: public holidays and Tuesday—Sunday 9:00 AM—4:30 PM
January 1st: 11:00 AM—4:30 PM
December 24th and December 25th: closed
December 26th: 10:00 AM—4:30 PM
December 31st: 10:00 AM—2:00 PM - Email: info@spsg.de
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Palace in Brandenburg, Germany
- Also known as: “Sanssouci”
- Address: Im Park Sanssouci 3, Potsdam, 14469
- Wheelchair access: limited
Photo: Janstoecklin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Picture Gallery and Historic Mill of Sanssouci.
Picture Gallery
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Picture Gallery in the Sanssouci Park of Potsdam was built in 1755–64 during the reign of Frederick II of Prussia under the supervision of Johann Gottfried Büring. Picture Gallery is situated 190 metres east of Sanssouci Palace.
Historic Mill of Sanssouci
Photo: Jakubhal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Historic Mill of Sanssouci is a windmill located in Potsdam, Germany, featured in the legend of The Miller of Sanssouci. It is particularly associated with Frederick the Great and his summer palace of Sanssouci. Historic Mill of Sanssouci is situated 190 metres west of Sanssouci Palace.
New Chambers
Photo: Bruhaha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Chambers is part of the ensemble of Sanssouci palace in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany. They were constructed for King Frederick the Great of Prussia from 1771 to 1775. New Chambers is situated 200 metres west of Sanssouci Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bornstedt and Brandenburger Vorstadt.
Bornstedt
Suburb
Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bornstedt is a borough of Potsdam, Germany. Located north of Sanssouci Park and the Orangery Palace, it is known for the Bornstedt Crown Estate, former residence of Princess Royal Victoria, and the Bornstedt Cemetery with numerous tombs of famous personages.
Alexandrowka
Locality
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Russian colony of Alexandrowka is located north of downtown Potsdam. It was built in 1826-1827 by King Frederick William III of Prussia for the last twelve Russian singers in a choir that had previously 62 members.
Sanssouci Palace
- Categories: palace, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.40435° or 52° 24′ 16″ northLongitude
13.03843° or 13° 2′ 18″ eastElevation
40 metres (131 feet)Inception
1748Levels
2Open location code
9F4MC23Q+P9OpenStreetMap ID
way 142038726OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
6295638Wikidata ID
Q151330
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sanssouci Palace” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر سانسوسي”
- Armenian: “Սանսուսի”
- Basque: “Sanssouci jauregia”
- Basque: “Sanssouci”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Сусі”
- Breton: “Sanssouci”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Суси”
- Bulgarian: “Санссуси”
- Bulgarian: “Сансуси”
- Catalan: “Palau de Sanssouci”
- Catalan: “Sanssouci”
- Cebuano: “Sanssouci”
- Chinese: “无忧宫”
- Chinese: “無憂宮”
- Croatian: “Dvorac Sanssouci”
- Croatian: “Sanssouci”
- Czech: “Sanssouci”
- Danish: “Sanssouci”
- Dutch: “Sanssouci”
- Dutch: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Dutch: “Schloß Sanssouci”
- Dutch: “Slot Sanssouci”
- Esperanto: “Sanssouci”
- Estonian: “Sanssouci loss”
- Estonian: “Sanssouci”
- Finnish: “Sanssouci”
- French: “Château de Sanssouci”
- French: “Palais de Sanssouci”
- Galician: “Palacio de Sanssouci”
- Georgian: “სან-სუსის სასახლე”
- Georgian: “სანსუსი”
- Georgian: “სანსუსის სასახლე”
- German: “Sanssouci”
- German: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Greek: “Σανσουσί”
- Hebrew: “ארמון סן סוסי”
- Hebrew: “ארמון סנסוסי”
- Hebrew: “סנסוסי”
- Hindi: “संस्सौची”
- Hungarian: “Sanssouci”
- Icelandic: “Sanssouci-kastalinn”
- Icelandic: “Sanssouci”
- Icelandic: “Vanangur”
- Indonesian: “Sanssouci”
- Irish: “Sans Souci”
- Irish: “Sanssouci”
- Italian: “Castello di Sans-Souci”
- Italian: “palazzo di Sanssouci”
- Italian: “Palazzo di Sanssouci”
- Italian: “Palazzo Sanssouci”
- Italian: “Sans-Souci”
- Italian: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Italian: “Schloß Sanssouci”
- Japanese: “サン・スーシ宮殿”
- Japanese: “サン=スーシ宮殿”
- Japanese: “サンスーシー宮殿”
- Japanese: “サンスーシ宮殿”
- Japanese: “無憂宮”
- Korean: “상수시 궁전”
- Korean: “상수시”
- Korean: “상수시궁”
- Latvian: “Sanssouci”
- Latvian: “Sansusī pils”
- Latvian: “Sansusī”
- Lithuanian: “Sansusi”
- Luxembourgish: “Sanssouci”
- Macedonian: “Сансуси”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sans-Souci”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanssouci”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanssoussci”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Norwegian: “Sanssouci”
- Persian: “سان سوسی”
- Persian: “سانسوسی”
- Persian: “سانسوسی”
- Persian: “سن سوسی”
- Persian: “سنسوسی”
- Persian: “قصر سانسوسی”
- Persian: “کاخ سانسوسی”
- Persian: “کاخ سنسوسی”
- Polish: “Sanssouci”
- Portuguese: “Sans souci”
- Portuguese: “Sans-Souci”
- Portuguese: “Sanssouci”
- Portuguese: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Romanian: “Sans Souci”
- Romanian: “Sanssouci”
- Russian: “Sanssouci”
- Russian: “Дворец Сан-Суси”
- Russian: “Замок Сан-Суси”
- Russian: “Сан Суси”
- Russian: “Сан-Суси”
- Russian: “Сансуси”
- Russian: “Сансусси”
- Serbian: “Sansusi”
- Serbian: “Сансуси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sanssouci”
- Slovak: “Sanssouci”
- Slovenian: “Sanssouci”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Sanssouci”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Sanssouci”
- Spanish: “Sanssouci”
- Spanish: “Schloss Sanssouci”
- Swedish: “Sanssouci”
- Tagalog: “Sanssouci”
- Thai: “Sanssouci”
- Thai: “พระราชวังซ็องซูซี”
- Thai: “พระราชวังซองส์ซูซิ”
- Thai: “พระราชวังซองส์ซูซี”
- Thai: “วังซองซูซิ”
- Thai: “วังซองส์ซูซิ”
- Thai: “วังซองส์ซูซี”
- Turkish: “Sanssouci Sarayı”
- Turkish: “Sanssouci”
- Ukrainian: “Палац Сансусі”
- Vietnamese: “Sanssouci”
- Western Panjabi: “سانسوسی”
- Western Panjabi: “نواں محل”
- “Schloss Sanssouci”
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