Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Potsdam, Germany

Volkspark Potsdam is located in Bornstedter Feld in the north of the city of Potsdam. The area stretches over three kilometres to the Jungfernsee in the north and to the "Lennésche Feldflur" in the west. In the south it borders on the Ruinenberg of Sanssouci Park and on the Nauener Vorstadt and in the east on the Pfingstberg. With an area of 65 hectares, the park comprises the sub-areas In den Wällen, Kleiner and Großer Wiesenpark, Remisenpark and Waldpark (Schragen). The site, which is managed by the development agency Bornstedter Feld, is subject to admission.

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The Biosphäre Potsdam is an indoor tropical botanical garden located in the Volkspark Potsdam, a park between the Sanssouci Park and the Neuer Garten Potsdam at Georg-Hermann-Allee 99, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.

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The Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church is an historic Russian Orthodox church building in Potsdam, Germany.

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The Royal Country House in Potsdam is situated on mount Kapellenberg and was originally constructed for the sexton of the Russian Orthodox chapel of Saint Alexander Nevsky nearby. The façade of the log house recalls simple German and Russian farm constructions. It was actually used as a royal residence. On the second floor, King Frederik William III would give tea parties, sometimes gathering up to 40 persons. Interior furnishings of the royal rooms affected extreme simplicity. Only a samovar from Tula and table and tea services produced by the Berlin royal porcelain manufactory specified the high position of the dweller. A porcelain service, gift of the Russian emperor Nicholas I, was decorated with painted gold on a malachite background, and scenes of rural life. Since Frederik William's time there has been a tiny monument to Tsar Alexander I, one meter in height.

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The Jewish cemetery on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, the capital of the state of Brandenburg (Germany), was established in 1743. It is located at Puschkinallee 18, near the Belvedere and is a protected monument.

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Pfingstberg (Potsdam) is a hill in Brandenburg, Germany. The Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg sits atop the hill.

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The Temple of Pomona is a small pavilion on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, south below the Belvedere. It has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.

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Villa Quandt is a villa on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, Germany. It is named after the widow of the War Council, Ulrike Augusta von Quandt, houses the Theodor Fontane Archive and the Brandenburg Literature Office, and is part of the administrative collection of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.

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Lepsiushaus is a house museum in Potsdam, Germany.

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Villa Schlieffen is a villa on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, Germany. It is part of the administrative portfolio of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.

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The Dairy in the New Garden is a historic building located in Potsdam, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Jungfernsee lake, at the northernmost tip of the New Garden. The Dairy was constructed between 1790 and 1792 under the supervision of master builder Carl Gotthard Langhans, with Andreas Ludwig Krüger carrying out the construction.

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The Crystal and Shell Grotto in the New Garden is located in the north of Potsdam's park on the shore of the Jungfernsee, southeast within sight of the Meierei and north of Cecilienhof Palace. Frederick William II commissioned the chief court architect Andreas Ludwig Krüger to plan a grotto, which was built between 1791 and 1794 under the direction of his son Friedrich Ludwig Carl Krüger on a specially created hill. The grotto in the castle garden of Oranienburg, built around 1754/56, served as a model. In contrast to the building there, which was recognizable as garden architecture, the grotto in the New Garden was intended to look as if it had been created by nature. In order to achieve this naturalness, Krüger had the brick building clad with turf ironstone from Golzow, tufa from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, gypsum stone from the Harz Mountains as well as slag and fused, sintered bricks, so-called "Schmolz".

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Like Babelsberg Park and Sanssouci Park, the New Garden is part of the ensemble of Potsdam's Palace Parks. The area is a 102.5-hectare park area bordering the Heiliger See and the Jungfernsee in the north of Potsdam. From 1787, Friedrich Wilhelm II had a new garden laid out on this site, which was to stand out from the baroque Sanssouci Park.

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