Frederick the Great commissioned the palace after the Seven Years' War, and construction ran from 1763 to 1769. The infobox names Johann Gottfried Büring, Heinrich Ludwig Manger and Carl von Gontard, and the text also names Jean-Laurent Legeay. Büring was first assigned the planning, and in 1764 the design was vested in Gontard after disagreements.
The article calls it the last great Prussian Baroque palace, though the infobox gives Baroque and Rococo. The east and west facades are 722 feet (220 m) long, and there are over 200 rooms. A central dome rises above, with a copper dome over the Marble Hall. Brick is covered with painted stucco.
It became a museum after 1918. It escaped bombing in World War II and looks much as it did in 1918. The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation owns it, and it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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