Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 23

[cahn]

aaaaaand it's time for a new discussion post! :D (you guys are so fast!)

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Fredersdorf's room

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thanks to Selena linking to a virtual tour of Sanssouci last week, I spent quite a bit of time walking around Fritz's library and bedroom-cum-study, the two rooms in which I'm most interested. (Still annoyed that the bedroom-cum-study was renovated.)

Thanks to that, I can conclusively say that none of the doors in Fritz's bedroom go to Fredersdorf's bedroom, and that Fredersdorf's bedroom was not seen by either me or selenak on our tour except from outside. Thanks to renovations, I can't say that they didn't adjoin in Fritz's day; the sketch of the floorplan has always been ambiguous to me (it doesn't look like they quite connect, but I have a hard time reading these things).

So if Fredersdorf's room was the first one in the servants' wing next to the library, and if major structural renovations didn't change what passageways connected which rooms to which, I don't think Fredersdorf's bedroom exactly adjoined Fritz's, but they were of course quite close. I just don't think it was possible to get privately from one to the other in the middle of the night without passing through a corridor--again, barring renovations. (There were at least 19th-century renovations to add a second floor onto the servants' wings, and the kitchens were moved, and that's not counting what might have been done to turn this into a tourist attraction in the 20th century, so this could have changed.)

Regardless, I really wish they would let us see it! Neither the in-person tour nor the virtual tour will let me turn the corner to head toward Fredersdorf's room. :P Even if they don't want a crowd of people there, they should take the camera there for the virtual tour, even if it's just an administrative office with highly unauthentic electricity and plumbing now.

But it is awesome getting to set (virtual) foot inside the library! My favorite room, and they wouldn't even let me in it when I was there, something something conservation of books. :P

Thank you, selenak!

Re: Fredersdorf's room

[cahn]

Thanks to that, I can conclusively say that none of the doors in Fritz's bedroom go to Fredersdorf's bedroom

Okay, I totally love that you made sure to figure this out. (Because of course you did!)

Re: Fredersdorf's room

[mildred_of_midgard]

Of course I did! #ShipperPriorities