With the loggia Alexandra acts it around a Belvedere on the in Berlin when lake above the former village small Glienicke, which ranks among potsdam. Mountain and loggia in "„the landscape park small Glienicke " are a component of the world cultural heritage of the Berlin Potsdamer culture landscape, which is enough from the Pfaueninsel until Werder and since 1990 with its locks and as a total ensemble under the protection of the UNESCO stands for gardens. The small loggia in the style of the florentinischen early Renaissance is semicircularly direction potsdam opened with view axles to the lock Babelsberg and to the Potsdamer center. The open elbow wall contains wall paintings according to kind as well as zierende wood panels of pompejanischer Fresken and is today inaccessible, but observably by a Glaswand protected. The soil of the is equipped with a marble floor, in the center of the elbow wall is a door with the heading "„Alexandra ".

The name reminds of Charlotte of Prussia (1798-1860), which had accepted the name after the marriage with the later Zaren Nikolaus I. "„Alexandra Feodorowna ". Her brother prince Carl of Prussia let the building 1869/1870 establish to the memory of his the deceased favourite sister as dte and prospect place. The drafts procured the sculptor Alexander Gilli and the building masters Ernst Petzholtz. Ten years after the death of its sister prince Carl selected the point of construction period for memory of the famous knight tournament "„Blanche Fleur " 40 years before, which formed the high point of the birthday ceremonies on 13 July 1829 before the new palace of Sanssouci in honours of the Zarin. "„Blanche Fleur " or also "„the charm of the white rose " referred to Charlottes family Kosenamen.

Only and thus not accessible the door visible by the safety glazing leads into a narrow interior, in which a of the Zarin was set up, which are no longer present. Over stairs one arrives parapet wall partitioned by this area at a prospect platform with. At a side of the loggia a follows.

Originally the gardener Peter Joseph wanted to establish here Cottage, how draft shows from the year 1831. had arranged the opposite park Babelsberg and had included the into its work.

The building of bricks experienced 1997 and 2000 a restoration, which intensive art-historical investigations preceded between, so that in particular also the Fresken and mosaics are to a large extent original-faithfully restored. The zinc covers of the parapet wall and the got a renewal traditionally relating to crafts. The total costs amounted to approximately 1.7 million DM, which up-brought partially private donations. A wrought-iron gate fence could protect the building only insufficiently until 1997. In order to become the Vandalismus gentleman and hold around the influences of the weather outside, decided Land Berlin to the today's safety glazing.

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