3D print Sanssouci Palace
A free, printable model of Sanssouci Palace and the green parkland with garden paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Sanssouci Palace
Schloss Sanssouci (Sanssouci Palace) is a historical building in Potsdam, close to Berlin. Prussian King Frederick the Great had it made as his summer palace, and people often name it among Germany's rivals to Versailles. Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff designed it, and it was built from 1745 to 1747, meeting Frederick's wish for a private home away from the pomp and ceremony of court. The French name means "without worries" or "carefree", underlining that it was a place to relax, not a seat of power.
Sanssouci is Rococo in style, intimate, and well below the size of its French Baroque counterpart. It amounts to little more than a big villa of a single story, with only ten principal rooms, at the crest of a terraced hill in the middle of the park. Frederick's own taste shaped the design and decoration so strongly that the style goes by the name Frederician Rococo. The principal rooms look south across the vineyard gardens, and its north side forms the entrance front, with a semicircular cour d'honneur formed by a pair of segmented Corinthian colonnades.
Frederick William IV made the palace a residence in the 19th century, and he employed Ludwig Persius to restore and enlarge it. After World War II, it drew tourists in East Germany. After the German reunification of 1990, Frederick's remains were brought back to a new tomb that overlooks the gardens he created. Sanssouci and its extensive gardens were made a World Heritage Site in 1990, protected by UNESCO.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 5 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 6 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Small roofline ornaments
- Tiny ornaments dot the roofline, and the central dome has fine ribs. Print friendly adapts these to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- A low, wide palace
- The palace is long and low, with many arched windows. Print size decides how clearly they read, so a bigger print shows them better.
- One piece with the ground
- Sanssouci Palace is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Sanssouci Palace takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Sanssouci Palace is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Sanssouci Palace STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Sanssouci Palace grows with the print: about 4 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
