State Palaces and Gardens: Potsdam-Sanssouci - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1983 - 40 Pfennig

Buildings from the State Palaces and Gardens, Potsdam-Sanssouci With the depictions of buildings from the Potsdam-Sanssouci State Palaces and Gardens, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps. No special First Day Cover Special cancellation from 20 September to 19 November 1983 State Palaces and Gardens, Potsdam-Sanssouci 40-pfennig value: Charlottenhof Palace From 1825 Sanssouci was built according to the plans of Peter Joseph Lenne (1789-1856) for the approximately 100 hectares Park of Schloss Charlottenhof extended to the southwest. Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) was commissioned to build the castle from the remains of an existing manor house and erected the architectural facilities in the garden. From 1826 to 1829, the castle was built at the summit of a curved main path that opens up the entire garden landscape, it is fixed on an east-west axis, the sunrise from east to east over the machine pond to sunset in the west behind the hippodrome the eternal Daily routine represents. Its interior is very simple and perfectly expresses the ideal everyday life and life cycle proposed for the residents. In the relationship to the free development of natural spaces at the Roman Baths with the Gardener's House, the system created from elements of landscape design, spatial planning, architecture and garden art appears as a model for the harmonious coexistence of the members of society in a changing world.