Marmorpalais

King Frederick William II had the Marble Palace built between 1787 and 1792. The original designs were by Carl von Gontard, and from 1789, Carl Gotthard Langhans took over the construction management. The palace served the king as a private retreat and was intended as a deliberate departure from the Baroque and Rococo styles of his predecessor Frederick the Great. It is a two-story brick building with a square floor plan and a round temple on the roof. A special feature was the palace kitchen on the lakeshore, designed in the style of a temple ruin, connected to the Grotto Hall by an underground passage. After the death of Frederick William II in 1797, two side wings were added under Michael Philipp Boumann, but these were only completed later under Frederick William IV between 1843 and 1848.