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Tor, erected by Fred. William IV. in 1852 in honour of the return
of his brother Prince William (afterwards Emp. William I.) from
the campaign in Baden (1849). A few minutes farther a path di¬
verging to the right from the Nauen road and passing through
pretty grounds leads in l/2 hr. to the Neue Garten (p. 197).
The usual entrance, however, to the Park of Sanssouci is by
the 'Green Railing', reached by an avenue bearing a little to the right
from the Brandenburg Gate. On the right, before the gate-house
(tickets for the Mausoleum, see below), rises the *Priedens-
Kirche, or Church of Peace, in the early-Christian basilica style,
designed by Persius, and completed in 1850, the favourite building
of Fred. William IV. The detached campanile is 130 ft. in height.
In the Atrium (the 'paradise' of the ancient basilicas), in front of
the church, stand Rauch's *Group of Moses, Aaron, and Hur, and
(in the centre) a copy of Thorvaldsen's Risen Christ. To the S. of
the atrium are cloisters, the entrance to which from the park is
formed by a terracotta reproduction of the entrance to the abbey-
church of Heilsbronn. In the cloisters are a few fragments of early-
Christian sculptures.
The somewhat bare Interior of the basilica, borne by sixteen Ionic
columns in black marble, contains, in front of the chancel, the burial-
vaults of Frederick William IV. (d. 1861) and his Queen Elizabeth (d. 1873).
The apse is adorned with an old Venetian mosaic from the church of
San Cipriano di Malamocco, representing Christ, Mary, and Peter on the
right, and John the Baptist and St. Cyprian on the left.
On the N. side of the atrium is the Mausoleum of Emp.
Frederick 111. (adm., see p. 189; tickets in the gate-house, to the
right), erected by Raschdorff in 1890 in imitation of the chapel of
Innichen in Tyrol. The interior of the circular domed structure is
supported by nine columns of labradorite. The marble *Sarcophagi
of the emperor (d. 1888) and of Empress Victoria (d. 1901) as well
as those of their sons Waldemar and Sigismund are by R. Begas.
In the altar-niche is a *Pieta by Rietschel (1845). The dome is em¬
bellished with mosaics of angels, after Ewald's designs.
Entering the *Park of Sanssouci by the green gate and
bearing to the right round a corner we soon reach a reduced marble
replica of Rauch's equestrian statue of Frederick the Great (p. 57).
Beyond it is the Great Fountain (p. 189), the water of which rises
to a height of 130 ft. The twelve figures surrounding the basin are
French works of the 18th century. The Mercury and the Venus (co¬
pies; originals see p. 100), by Pigalle, were presented by Louis XV.;
the figures of Hunting and Fishing are by Lambert Sigisbert Adam,
and most of the others are by his brother Francois Gaspard Adam.
To the N., in front of the fountain, is the porphyry bust of Duke
Paolo Jordanzio of Bracciano, bought by Frederick the Great for
3000Z. The fountain is situated in the broad main avenue, l'/4 M.
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