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Green Arrow

            Explored May 17, 2023

The green archer at Sanssouci Park on the lawn in front of the elevated Orangery Palace. The archer statue was created by Ernst Moritz Geyger (*1861 in Rixdorf – which later became a part of the Berlin borough of Neukölln –, †1941 in Magnolle near Florence), a German sculptor, painter, and etcher, in 1902. The often copied archer statue is Geyger's best-known work and can, amongst other places, also be found in Dresden on the bank of the river Elbe. 

The Orangery Palace at Sanssouci Park was the last and also the largest palace conceived for the Sanssouci castle complex. King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who loved Italy, had conceived it in the Italian High Renaissance style. He asked his architects to incorporate style elements of several important Italian buildings such as the Villa Medici, the Uffizi, and the Vatican's Sala Regia so the builders had quite a difficult time designing a harmonious building that would also be unique in its own right. But I think they did a great job with that ;) The Orangery Palace ensemble was built between 1851 and 1864; like the rest of Sanssouci Park and its castles and buildings, it is UNESCO World Heritage-protected.

This image is an oldie taken back in June 2018, the year the great drought began. At the image's bottom edge, you can see that the lawn had already started to turn yellow, even though the scene itself looks lush and fresh with all that green. In the following years, it had rained more than in 2018, but not enough for nature to fully recover from the drought's impact. In fact, even this year, when it has already rained considerably more than in the previous years, a short time of no rain has brought back the drought to an extent that on the website of Sanssouci Park, there is a severe warning against leaving the visitor paths at the park or sitting and resting under trees due to the risk of falling branches.

Taken in: Germany / Brandenburg / Kreisfreie Stadt Potsdam / Brandenburger Vorstadt (show map)

Taken on: June 7, 2018

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-LX100, f/13.0, 1/400 sec, 17.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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