Attractions and Places To See around Heiliger Lake - Top 14

The two-story, octagonal, pavilion-like tower is enclosed by a four-sided arcade. The lower level features a high window facade on each side and three stone arches, which open onto the two landward sides via wide steps. A spiral staircase decorated with a railing leads outside to the terrace and the upper floor. The sandstone building exhibits a neo-Gothic character, which is also reflected in the interior with its delicate star vaults.

Beautifully situated on the water. It's definitely worth taking a look at the complex from the outside.

The idyllic lake is filled with life, especially on the meadows on the western shore, as soon as the sun shines its warm rays on us. Nevertheless, it is very idyllic here 💙...

Just out of the city and after a few meters you can enjoy the peace and quiet on this bench and have a very beautiful view over the Holy Lake.

The Marble Palace is romantically situated on a terraced complex directly on the lake shore in the New Garden. King Friedrich Wilhelm II had the building clad in Silesian marble built as a summer residence between 1787 and 1793. Its architect Carl von Gontard created the first and only Prussian royal palace in the style of early classicism. The king, who was artistically inclined and associated with the ideas of the Rosicrucians, used the palace and garden as a private retreat. The vestibule made entirely of different colored marble, the grotto hall located directly on the water and the impressive concert hall are the highlights of the early classical rooms of the castle, most of which are still in their original form. https://www.spsg.de/schloesser-gaerten/objekt/marmorpalais/

Nice park to stroll and relax.

Ice cellar as a pyramid Friedrich Wilhelm II belonged to a Masonic lodge and to the more mystically oriented secret society of the Rosicrucians. Some of the buildings in the New Garden reflect the meaning of Freemasonry. The castle kitchen was built as a half-sunken temple, the ice cellar as a pyramid and the library in the Gothic style. The architecture was not related to the actual purpose. Carl Gotthard Langhans and Andreas Ludwig Krüger created these functional buildings taken from another time. The ice cellar, built in 1791/92 as a pyramid on the north line of sight of the Marble Palace, was used to keep food fresh. In winter, ice was taken from the nearby Holy Lake and stored on the lowest floor of the basement, which went about 5 meters into the ground. The pyramid was extensively rebuilt in 1833 during the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm III by master builder Albert Dietrich Schadow, with only individual stones with hieroglyphs from the original building being used. Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuer_Garten

Marble Palace The Marble Palace in the New Garden in Potsdam was the summer palace of King Frederick William II of Prussia. The architects Carl von Gontard, Carl Gotthard Langhans and Michael Philipp Boumann built it in the early classicist style between 1787 and 1793 and 1797 in an English park designed by Johann August Eyserbeck close to the banks of the river. The “new house” was the private life of the musically gifted man Reserved for the king. With this new building, the nephew and successor of Frederick the Great, who remained childless, distanced himself spatially and architecturally from his little-loved uncle, who preferred rococo forms with Palladian echoes throughout his life. At the same time, however, it is the stylistic continuation of a pleasure palace (of the baroque Maison de plainsance type) into the new age of classicism, similar to the slightly earlier Wörlitz.Heiligen Sees Castle. Text/Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmorpalais