The Dairy in the New Garden was built to plans by the master builder, Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the shore of the

Jungfernsee The Jungfernsee (translated "Virgin Lake") is north of Potsdam, Germany. It was a glacial kettle and is now part of the River Havel, which runs along its southeastern shore, which is also the only part of its shores that is in Berlin. The rest of ...

lake at the northernmost tip of the New Garden in

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, Germany. Construction was carried out from 1790 to 1792 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger. In the course of laying out the landscape garden and building the

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under

Frederick William II of Prussia Frederick William II (german: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was in personal union the Prince-elector of Brandenburg and (via the Orange-Nassau inherita ...

, a dairy was built to supply the royal court. Cows grazing on the surrounding land produced milk for the manufacture of butter and cheese. In 1843/1844 Frederick William IV. had the building extended. To a design by the architect

Ludwig Persius Friedrich Ludwig Persius (15 February 1803 in Potsdam – 12 July 1845 in Potsdam) was a Prussian architect and a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel with, among others, the building of the Charlottenhof Castle an ...

a second storey was added under the direction of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and the southwest corner was enhanced with a tower. Battlements run along the edges of the roof and give the building a

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character. A second expansion was carried out in 1857 with the engine or pump house, which was built to water the New Garden. The high, slender chimney is part of that technical modification.''Die Geschichte der Meierei Potsdam''
at www.meierei-potsdam.de. Accessed on 19 Mar 2013. The upper basin for the supply of water is nowadays located within the

Belvedere on the Pfingstberg The Belvedere on the Pfingstberg (german: link=no, Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg) is a large structure north of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany, at the summit of Pfingstberg hill. It was commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia a ...

. In 1928 a restaurant was established in the building that became one of the most popular destinations for day trippers in Potsdam until the

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. Its occupation by the

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at the end of 1945 and the destruction by fire of part of the building ended its gastronomic function. The dairy was still in this ruined condition when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. In 1991, after the '' Wende'', renovation and restoration measures were carried out on the old building and, in 2003, it was able to re-open as a brewery and restaurant (''Gasthausbrauerei'').

References

External links

Website of the ''Meierei Potsdam'' brewery
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