Frederick the Great's colossal show-palace. Online it's visited with the one-day Potsdam Day Pass — which also opens every other royal palace in Sanssouci Park on your chosen day.
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“We almost ran out of time in Potsdam and I'm so glad we kept the New Palace - the Grotto Hall is unlike anything I've ever seen. Having the timed slot pre-booked meant we just walked in.”
“The little audio guide they sent the day before was lovely - five minutes and suddenly every room had a story. Confirmation came through within the hour of booking.”
“Bigger and grander than I expected, and the Marble Hall ceiling genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Smooth booking, clear instructions, and our entry time was exactly as promised.”
5-minute audio guide
Hand-written and narrated by a heritage host, sent to every customer before their visit. Five minutes that turn the photographs into a story - why Frederick the Great built this palace after winning a brutal war, what the Grotto Hall's walls are really made of, why the Marble Hall ceiling is the largest of its kind north of the Alps, and which rooms most visitors rush past.
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The New Palace is the building a king put up to prove a point. Frederick the Great raised it between 1763 and 1769, immediately after the Seven Years' War had drained Prussia, deliberately as a 'fanfaronade' - an extravagant show of strength meant to tell Europe that Prussia was far from broken. The result is the last and largest of the great Prussian Baroque palaces: a vast red-brick front more than two hundred metres long, crowned with a dome and a crowd of sandstone figures, standing at the western end of Sanssouci Park.
Inside are more than two hundred rooms, and the showpieces are extraordinary. The Grotto Hall has walls encrusted with shells, minerals, quartz and semi-precious stones, a fantasy of the sea built indoors. The Marble Gallery gleams with red jasper and white Carrara marble between tall mirrors, and the two-storey Marble Hall is crowned by a ceiling painting of some 240 square metres - the largest canvas ceiling north of the Alps. There is even a small rococo court theatre, opened in 1768 and still in use today.
Frederick never meant this to be his home - Sanssouci, his little vineyard retreat, was that. The New Palace was a stage: a place to receive visiting royalty and stage balls and state occasions, with four principal halls and the theatre laid on for spectacle. Behind it stand the Communs, two grand service buildings linked by a curving colonnade, built to hide the kitchens and staff and to close off the view with one last flourish of grandeur.
This is an independent concierge ticket service. We secure your timed-entry admission, send instant confirmation and a free audio guide, and stay reachable in your language right up to visit day - so you arrive, walk in on your fixed time, and spend your time inside the palace instead of in line.
“The whole thing was handled by email in under an hour, and our timed slot was waiting for us. We walked straight in - no queue, no stress.”
New Palace Tickets is an independent ticket-concierge service that helps international visitors book timed-entry admission to the New Palace in Potsdam. We are not affiliated with the palace or its operator. Our service fee is included in the displayed price, and we refund you in full if a booking cannot be secured.
Plan your visit
What the shell-and-mineral walls are really made of, why Frederick the Great built an undersea fantasy indoors, and how to get the most from the New Palace's strangest room.
Short on time in Potsdam? Here is the most efficient route through Frederick the Great's vast Baroque palace, room by room, so you see the best of 200-plus rooms without rushing.
The classic stroll across Potsdam's UNESCO park, from Frederick the Great's vineyard retreat to his grand New Palace - the route, the distance, and what to see along the way.
Online, the New Palace is only sold as part of the one-day Potsdam palaces pass — there is no separate New-Palace-only e-ticket. The pass gets you into the New Palace and every other open palace in Sanssouci Park on your chosen day. Only Sanssouci Palace has a fixed timed entry, so that's the time you choose here, from live availability. At the New Palace itself you show your pass and collect a short guided-tour time at its visitor centre when you arrive. It's the most complete — and usually best-value — way to see the New Palace.
The New Palace stands at the western end of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. From Berlin, take a regional train (RE1) or the S-Bahn to Potsdam, then continue to Potsdam Park Sanssouci station, which is a short walk from the palace. The whole journey from central Berlin takes roughly 40-60 minutes, and local buses also stop near the park.
Yes. Admission runs on fixed entry times and daily numbers are capped, so you book for a specific date and a set admission time rather than arriving whenever you like. We secure that slot for you in advance so you walk in on schedule.
Individual visits run from April to October, Wednesday to Sunday, and the palace is closed on Tuesdays. From November to March the palace can only be seen on a guided tour - independent walk-through visits are not offered in those months. If your date falls in winter, tell us and we'll arrange the correct guided-tour ticket.
Over the colder months, from November to March, the palace switches from free-flow individual admission to guided tours only. It's simply how the site operates off-season. The visit still covers the great state rooms; the difference is you go through with a guide rather than at your own pace. We'll make sure your winter ticket is the right one.
The Grand Tour (€27) covers the full state-rooms route through the palace, including the shell-and-mineral Grotto Hall and the Marble Gallery. It's the standard way to see the showpiece interiors that made the New Palace famous.
The Grand Tour (€27) is the main state-rooms route. The Combined ticket (€31) adds Prince Henry's Apartment, the suite of rooms in the palace's southern wing, for visitors who want to see more of the building beyond the principal halls.
The Potsdam Pass (€39) is a one-day ticket covering all the open palaces in Potsdam's Sanssouci area, the New Palace included. It's the best value if you plan to pair the New Palace with Sanssouci Palace or the other monuments in the park on the same day.
The headline interiors are the Grotto Hall, whose walls are encrusted with shells, minerals, quartz and semi-precious stones; the Marble Gallery, lined with red jasper and white Carrara marble between tall mirrors; and the two-storey Marble Hall, crowned by a ceiling painting of around 240 square metres. There is also a small rococo court theatre opened in 1768.
Allow 1.5 to 2.5 hours for the palace interiors. If you want to walk through Sanssouci Park to Sanssouci Palace at the other end - just over a mile away - set aside more of your day for the gardens too.
Confirmation is emailed to you within hours of booking, usually much sooner. Your timed-entry document and a free 5-minute audio guide arrive before your visit - no app or printing required, though a printed copy never hurts.
Carry a passport or national ID in case staff ask to confirm a name on the booking. For any reduced-rate ticket, bring proof of eligibility for each named visitor.
The King's Apartment is currently closed for restoration, so it is not part of the visit at present. The Grand Tour and Combined routes still take in the great state rooms - the Grotto Hall, Marble Gallery, Marble Hall and the theatre area - which are the palace's main highlights.
Yes, and many visitors do. They sit at opposite ends of Sanssouci Park, a little over a mile apart along the main avenue, an easy and beautiful walk. The Potsdam Pass covers both on the same day, and we can help you sequence your timed entries so the day flows.
Parts of the historic palace involve steps and uneven floors. Contact us before your visit and we'll share the current step-free options and tell you what to expect so you can plan around them.
You get a full refund. We only confirm once your timed entry is locked in, and if anything prevents us delivering it, you are refunded in full.
An earlier admission time is usually calmer and gives you the rest of the day for the park. Whatever slot you choose, arriving a few minutes early means a relaxed start - your entry time is fixed, so there's no benefit to rushing.
Reach out to our concierge team as early as you can and we'll work to rebook your date and time slot. Refunds are guaranteed in the event we cannot deliver the entry you booked.