Frederick the Great, discussion post 16

[cahn]

We have slowed down a lot, but are still (sporadically) going! And somehow filled up the last post while I wasn't looking!

...I was asked to start a new thread so that STDs could be discussed. Really! :D

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Re: AW readthrough

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, speaking of meal customs, something I had been wondering during my historical beta and fic-writing pastimes of recent months: which palace would Christmas 1732 have taken place in? Afaik, it's too late in the year for Wusterhausen and Monbijou.

If this is in the memoirs...I'm going to do a close reading of them when I get to studying French, I swear!

Re: AW readthrough

[selenak]

They were in the main Berlin town palace. Wilhelmine mentions arrving at Berlin while her father was still at Potsdam, though the rest of the family minus Fritz were in Berlin. As far as I recall from all the biographies, they always spent the Winter months in the Berliner Stadtschloss. That one was utterly destroyed in WWII. (No wonder, since it had a central city location.) In its place, the GDR then built the "Palast der Republik". For which a lot of Asbest was used, and thus they ended up with a poisonous building, which is why post reunification it was first closed and then torn down. Then, after much debate, the old Hohenzollern palace was rebuild, which btw I was totally against, because there are such a lot of other things you could have spend that money on, and it's not like Berlin is lacking in palaces anyway. At least they're using it for the Humboldt Forum.

This reminds me: ever since Ziebura's Heinrich biography mentioned that Heinrich's Berlin town palace (which he hardly lived in, since it wasn't even finished pre 7 Years War, then it was destroyed after the second occupation of Berlin, then when it was restored his main residence had become Rheinsberg and he'd given it to Mina to live in, though he did occupy one of the wings (and she the other) when he was in Berlin for the winter) had post WWII become the first building used by the Alaexander-von-Humboldt-Universität (not to be confused with the above mentioned Humboldt Forum), I meant to take a photo for you two, and I did on my recent trip. It's this:

Re: AW readthrough

[cahn]

:D Yay, thank you for the pic!

Re: AW readthrough

[mildred_of_midgard]

Wonderful, that's where I *thought* they might be, but I wasn't sure. Thank you for the picture!