Langer Stall

Preserved gate facade of the Langer Stall, 2007

The Lange or Langer Stall (literally Long Stables) was a timber framed riding school and drill hall in Potsdam, built in 1734 under Frederick William I of Prussia. Almost all of it was destroyed in the Second World War, with the only survivor being the gateway facade commissioned by Frederick the Great and designed by Georg Christian Unger.

History and description

Context

Location in a c.1850 city map.

Aerial view of the Garrison Church, with the Lange Stall on the left (1919)

Side view of the Lange Stall from the Plantage, from the north-west, in the background of the Garrison Church.

Riding and drill hall

North facade of the Montierungshauses, design for a 1884 rebuild.

Southern gate facade

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  Unrealised design, before 1781
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  Realised design, 1781
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  Gateway to the Lange Stall and the Garrison Church und Garrison Church, 1813 etching
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  Gateway to the Lange Stall and Garrison Church, 1930

Destruction and partial reconstruction

Langer Stall during the reconstruction - on the left the Plantage seen from the tower of the Garrison Church, 2025

During the bombing of Potsdam on the night of 14-15 April 1945 the Langer Stall caught fire, completely destroying the large timber-framed building. The neighbouring Garrison Church was not hit by the bombs, but was ignited by flying sparks from the Stall and also burned down completely.

Bibliography (in German)

• Karin Carmen Jung: Potsdam. Am Neuen Markt. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2307-1
• Heinrich Ludwig Manger: Heinrich Ludewig Manger’s Baugeschichte von Potsdam, besonders unter der Regierung König Friedrichs des Zweiten. Zweiter Band, Berlin und Stettin 1789, Reprint Leipzig 1987
• Christian Wendland: Georg Christian Unger. Baumeister Friedrichs des Großen in Potsdam und Berlin. Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-929748-28-2

External links

• "Heritage listing".

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