Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-08-17
FROM GERMANY
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From Mrs. Il. 4. Lloyd.

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From Mrs. E. 4. Lloyd.
Pets am is the seat of government for
the province OF Brandenburg. and is
charmingly situated. II is the true cradle
Of the German army, the soldiers form
the most characteristic feature in the
streets. will mention some OF the places
Of interest we have visited,
The Town Palace COR as we would call
il the City HalD is interesting for its
"reminiscences of Frederick the Great the
rooms are all left just as he used them
only the ground floor is shown to visitors
In front of the Palace extends the Lust
Garden" COR pleasure garden) with a
colonnade and fountain decorated with
statues of the early ! 9th century from
the Town Palace we went to the Garrison
church, in it are found great number of
flags chiefly French that we're captured
in l8l5-l5 and in l8z0-6l they are
suspended on each side of the pulpit, I'M
der the pulpit is vault which contains
the remains of Frederick the Great and
his father Frederick William /. From
here we went to the beautiful Park of
Sanssouoi (meaning without care) just in
front of the gate that leads into the park
stands "Friedens- Klrche or church of
peace; in front Of this church stands
marble group of Moses. Aaron and Hur
by Ranchs and in the center is a large
bronze copy of THE Risen Christ" by
Thorwalsden and on entering the gate we
came to the great fountain, the water
from which rises to height of ! so feet,
at the east of this great fountain is
beautiful terrace SO feet high, the top Of
which is reached by a broad flight OF
steps. Here are hurried the Grayhounds
Of Frederick the Great.
We next visited the Palace of Sanssouc
one story building the rooms in this
building are still preserved as they we're
in Fredericks time. there is Voltares
room with interesting wood carvings and
Frederick William w room in which he
died in 86l then comes the oval dining
room and some other rooms, then there is
the concert saloon. in this room stands
the clock which Frederick was in the
habit of winding up, of course there were
many other rooms Of interest.
From this we went to the Granger, ="
this building contains paintings from
Raphael and great many original sculp-
lures by Berges, Voss, Imhoff and many
others, we climbed 20 steps to the top
Of the tower on this building, this gave us
en- excellent view Of Potsdam. The coun-
try around is quite flat and very woody.
mostly Pines and Poplar. We also visited
the new Palace the summer residence of
the Emperor, visitors are not admitted
while the Emperor is there, and it hap
pened that he and his family we're away
at the time and VS. went through several
OF the rooms. One of them was of great
interest il is called the Shell room. beng
llaid with shells, minerals and precious
stones, every year new stones of interest
are brought and replace the old ones. The
building is Of red brick and all around on
the lawn are statues of kind of saw
stone which are so old that moss is grow
ing on them the lawn is beautiful with
flowers and trees mostly Linden, Beech
and Chestnut.
Germany is very interesting country
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