フュルステンヴァルデ/シュプレーの洞窟・トップ2

This sculpture stands in the middle of the square in front of the villa. It's a great photo opportunity for Transformers fans.

The "Little Sanssouci" villa complex consists of a castle-like main building, an outbuilding with a connecting corridor and a park-like villa garden. The miniature version of Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace, built between 1745 and 1747 by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, was built in 1905, 1912 and 1913, and the side wing was added in 1939. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was returned to its original owner, the German Post Office. Today it is privately owned, presumably by a "Transformers" fan. At least that is what the large sculpture in the driveway suggests.

First mentioned in the 13th century, Count Finck von Finckenstein acquired the Alt-Madlitz castle estate in 1751. However, the educator of the Prussian kings Friedrich Wilhelm II and Frederick II did not stay there often. It was his son Friedrich Ludwig Karl who first developed the estate into a true court of the muses. Celebrities such as Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Clemens Brentano regularly visited there. Friedrich Ludwig Karl himself developed the plans for the extensive park that extends directly behind the manor house. Cleverly designed visual axes lined with large oak and chestnut trees characterize the oldest English landscape garden in Brandenburg. Finckenstein loved his park so much that he buried his heart there, surrounded by thirteen field stones symbolizing the number of his children. Unfortunately, when we visited in March 2024, all the ponds and even the large lake were almost completely silted up, but it is still worth a walk.

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On the wall to the right of the north portal, under the walled-up old portal at the very bottom right is the chessboard stone.

Every time I visit Fürstenwalde, I don't fail to visit the cathedral. Wonderful: it is an "open church" that has several very committed volunteers. I am particularly fascinated by the fact that despite an almost complete destruction in World War II, an architecturally harmonious church was rebuilt and that you can see the various eras of the redesign (Gothic, Baroque, destruction). Missing columns, different paintings, etc.

You can also get a pilgrim stamp here. A very impressive former church ruin designed in a modern and functional way. Really worth seeing

Old tree in the residential park, which is not necessarily immediately noticeable.