There was an Orangery in Electress Louise Henriette’s original pleasure garden. A second one was created in 1699/1701 under Elector Frederick III /King Frederick I of Prussia. After the latter’s death, the pleasure garden and its buildings fell into decay. Prince Augustus William, who received the palace and gardens as a gift from his brother King Frederick II at Christmas 1742, stopped the decline of his grandfather’s legacy. The palace was turned into a residence for him and his wife Louise Amalie and was modernised with great zeal by the Prince. He devoted himself with equal vigour to the pleasure garden, which he had extended to the north and whose beauty exceeded that of Sanssouci Park as early as 1746 – as Augustus William’s brother the King himself judged in a letter.