New Palace – King’s ApartmentHighlight of Frederician interior design
Closed due to restoration work from 1 November 2024
The King’s Apartment will be closed from 1 November 2024 until further notice for restoration work performed as part of the "Prussian Palaces and Gardens Master Plan". Thank you for your understanding.
King Frederick the Great's apartment is located away from the banqueting halls and royal quarters in an extensive suite of rooms in the small southern side wing of the New Palace. The apartment comprises eleven rooms and is one of the highlights of Frederician interior design thanks to its splendid furnishings. In no other of his palaces was the interior decoration as luxurious as that in the New Palace. This includes wall panelling, colourful stucco work on the ceilings and precious textiles. Frederick the Great had the clocks, chests of drawers, desks and chandeliers made of French rock crystal and from the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (Royal Porcelain Manufactory) specially made for the New Palace. As construction of the southern side wing had already begun, the king was able to move into his apartment just two years after the foundation stone was laid, in late summer 1765. When the royal family and other European monarchs stayed in the New Palace during the months of July and August, the king lived in his flat.
Since its construction, the apartment has remained untouched by subsequent generations. Today, only two largely authentic apartments of Frederick the Great remain – in Sanssouci Palace and the New Palace.
Neues Palais
Am Neuen Palais
14469 Potsdam
Public Transportation
Stop “Potsdam, Neues Palais”
vbb-online | Timetable information
Traffic information
Parking
Paid parking spaces for cars and buses in the car park P3 – At the New Palace.
Can be visited at selected times during the summer season
Sold at the visitor centre of the New Palace. A fixed admission time slot at the New Palace is included with purchase.
Valid for one day, April to October
Sold at the visitor centre of the New Palace. A fixed admission time slot at the New Palace is included with purchase.
Valid for a single visit to all the SPSG palaces in Potsdam open to the public on one day (not valid for Sacrow House and Stern Hunting Lodge; not valid for special exhibitions; in the Belvedere Pfingstberg, ticket owners are granted the reduced rate).
Sold at all palace registers, in the visitor centres and online. A fixed admission time slot at Sanssouci Palace is included with purchase, and a guided tour time must be booked for the New Palace. Guided tours for the New Palace can only be booked on a daily basis at the visitor centres.
book your ticketValid for up to 2 adults and up to 4 children.
Valid for a single visit to all the SPSG palaces in Potsdam open to the public on one day (not valid for Sacrow House and Stern Hunting Lodge, not valid for special exhibitions), in the Belvedere Pfingstberg ticket owners are granted the reduced rate.
Sold at all palace registers, in the visitor centres and online. A fixed admission time slot at Sanssouci Palace is included with purchase, and a guided tour time must be booked for the New Palace. Guided tours for the New Palace can only be booked on a daily basis at the visitor centres.
book your ticketValid for a single visit to all the SPSG palaces in Potsdam open to the public on one day, except Sanssouci Palace (not valid for the Belvedere on Potsdam’s Pfingstberg, Sacrow House and Stern Hunting Lodge).
Valid for up to 2 adults and up to 4 children (aged 18 or younger). On sale at all palace registers and at the visitor centers.
for annual ticket holders
Schlossleiter
Neues Palais
Am Neuen Palais
14469 Potsdam
neues-palais@spsg.de
Phone: 0331.96 94-361 (Zentrale)
Visitor Centre Historic Windmill in Sanssouci Park
An der Orangerie 1
14469 Potsdam
Closed Mondays
Visitor Centre New Palace in Sanssouci Park
Am Neuen Palais 3
14469 Potsdam
Closed Tuedays
info@spsg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 331.96 94-200
- wheelchair access
The ground floor can be visited with a wheelchair; a lifting platform provides access to the entrance to the palace.
A wheelchair is available in the palace.
For conservation reasons, it is unfortunately not possible to use prams / baby strollers in the exhibition rooms.
In the surroundings you will find the following dining options:
‘coffee bike’
on the ‘forum’ near to the Chinese House
Café Caroline
at the Visitor Centre at the New Palace (South Gate Building / "Südtorgebäude")
Theaterklause
near the entrance "Grünes Gitter"
Augustiner im Bürgerbahnhof
next to the station "Park Sanssouci"
Café Repin
near Picture Gallery and Sanssouci Palace
Drachenhaus Restaurant & Cafe im Park Sanssouci
between "Paradiesgarten" and Belvedere Klausberg
Lottenhof / Bill's Kitchen
near Charlottenhof Villa
Zur Historischen Mühle
near Sanssouci Palace
The SPSG offers a free shuttle service between the Grünes Gitter (Green Grille) and the New Palace on the so-called “Ökonomieweg” in Sanssouci Park from April to October, daily from 11 am to 5.30 pm.
As the shuttle service is only made possible by the voluntary work of the drivers, we ask for your understanding if the service is not always available. Unfortunately, the shuttle service is also not available during heavy rain.
