Edition Axel Menges GmbH Esslinger Straße 24 D-70736 Stuttgart-Fellbach T +49-0711-574759 F +49-0711-574784 Opus 12 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam- Sanssouci With an essay by Heinz Schönemann and photographs by Rein- hard Görner. 68 pp. with 72 ill., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/English ISBN 978-3-930698-12-7 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00, $A 59.00 When the small farmstead in the south-western corner of Sans- souci park came up for sale in 1825, Hofmarschall von Maltzahn wrote to the King of Prussia to say that the grounds of Sanssouci would be much improved by the addition of this plot. It was clear Distributors that Peter Joseph Lenné, who produced a first plan for the garden as soon as the land was presented to the Crown Prince, later King Brockhaus Commission Friedrich Wilhelm IV, was behind the letter. Kreidlerstraße 9 Schinkel, the architect of Charlottenhof, and Lenné, the de- D-70806 Kornwestheim signer of the surrounding park, had met in 1816 when they were Germany working for Chancellor Hardenberg in Glienicke, between Berlin tel. +49-7154-1327-33 and Potsdam. They established a community of interest that archi- fax +49-7154-1327-13 tecture critics have compared with the best years of co-operation
[email protected] between John Nash and Humphry Repton. The palace, set on a severe garden axis, was built from 1826 to Buchzentrum AG 1829. It was followed from 1829 to 1840 by the freely developing Industriestraße Ost 10 area of the Hofgärtnerhaus and its adjacent facilities, all of which CH-4614 Hägendorf has become known as the »Roman Baths«.