The New Gardens

The New Gardens

Palaces and Gardens

Showing a particular fondness to the company of ladies from an early age, Frederick William II of Prussia commissions a huge set of structures to consolidate both his weakness for the female gender and his allure for the occult. Intent on enjoying life pleasures with no strings attached, the most important woman in his life – neither his wife, nor his Mother and sisters – was the reason for the construction of the entrancing Marmorpalais (Marble Palace), the exotic Palmenhaus (Royal Greenhouse) and the mysterious pyramid in the center of the grounds. The New Gardens (Neuer Garten), the "open secret" of the monarch with the shortest administration in the history of the kingdom, are a landscape and architectural gem of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.