Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Potsdam, Germany

Babelsberg Palace lies in the eponymous park and quarter of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, near Berlin. For over 50 years it was the summer residence of Prince William, later German Emperor William I and King of Prussia and his wife, Augusta of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empress and Queen of Prussia. Along with the surrounding park and other parks in the area, the Babelsberg Palace was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1990 for its architectural cohesion and its testimony to the power of the Prussian monarchy.

Wikipedia: Babelsberg Palace (EN), Website, Heritage Website

Babelsberg Park is a 114 hectare park in the northeast of the city of Potsdam, bordering on the Tiefen See lake on the River Havel. The park was first designed by the landscape artist Peter Joseph Lenné and, after him, by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, by order of the then-prince William I and his wife, Augusta. Located on a hill sloping down to the lake, the park and castle are part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, which were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their unique architecture and testimony to the development of landscape design.

Wikipedia: Babelsberg Park (EN)

The Loggia Alexandra is a belvedere on the Böttcherberg in Berlin-Wannsee above the village of Klein Glienicke, which belongs to Potsdam. The mountain and loggia in the "Klein Glienicke Landscape Park" are part of the World Heritage Site of the Berlin-Potsdam Cultural Landscape, which stretches from Peacock Island to Werder and has been under UNESCO protection since 1990 with its palaces and gardens as a whole.

Wikipedia: Loggia Alexandra (DE)

The Böttcherberg in the Klein Glienicke Landscape Park is part of the World Heritage Site of the Berlin-Potsdam Cultural Landscape, which stretches from Peacock Island to Werder and has been under UNESCO protection since 1990 with its palaces and gardens as a whole.

Wikipedia: Böttcherberg (DE)

Glienicke Palace is a historic palace located on the peninsula of Berlin-Wannsee in Germany. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel around 1825 for Prince Carl of Prussia. Since 1990, Glienicke Palace and the park have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin" because of their unique contribution to Prussian landscape architecture.

Wikipedia: Glienicke Palace (EN), Website

The Glienicke Bridge is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907, although major reconstruction was necessary after it was damaged during World War II.

Wikipedia: Glienicke Bridge (EN)

The Villa Berliner Straße 133, the so-called Red Villa, is an upper-middle-class residential building in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Villa Berliner Straße 133 (DE), Heritage Website

The Hans Otto Theatre, named after the actor Hans Otto, is a municipal theatre in Potsdam in Germany. Its headquarters and main venue is in the Großes Haus am Tiefen See in Potsdam's cultural district on Schiffbauergasse. Other regular venues are the neighbouring historic Reithalle and occasionally the Palace Theatre in the Neues Palais.

Wikipedia: Hans Otto Theatre (EN), Website

The Waschhaus is the largest nightclub of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam in Germany.

Wikipedia: Waschhaus (EN), Website

The Protestant French Church in Potsdam is a late work by the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. In the Edict of Potsdam (1685), the Great Elector had offered the Huguenots who had fled France a new home in Prussia. In 1752/53 the church was built for the gradually growing French Reformed congregation of Potsdam. Since the heavy destruction of the city in the Second World War, it has been the oldest surviving church in the historic city area.

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The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic church located in the centre of Potsdam, Germany. It sits at the eastern end of Brandenburger Street, at the western end of which is the Potsdamer Brandenburger Gate. The present church building was completed in 1870 and served the Potsdam parishioners and the Catholic soldiers who were stationed in the city. Since 1992 it has had the status of a provost church.

Wikipedia: Peter and Paul Church, Potsdam (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Lindenstraße 54/55 memorial in Potsdam commemorates the political persecution in both German dictatorships. The building, popularly known as the "Lindenhotel", served as a remand prison for political prisoners during the National Socialist era and was taken over after the war by the Soviet secret service NKVD/MGB and later the East German State Security in the same function. After the political turnaround, it became the House of Democracy and was used as a memorial from 2007.

Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte Lindenstraße 54/55 (DE), Website

Höfer's music box is a music box in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Höfers Spieluhr (DE), Website

The Brandenburg Gate on the Luisenplatz in Potsdam, not to be confused with the gate of the same name on Berlin's Pariser Platz, was built in 1770–71 by Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger by order of Frederick II of Prussia, to celebrate his several victories in the Seven Years' War.

Wikipedia: Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam) (EN), Heritage Website

The Green Gate in Potsdam is the main gateway into Sanssouci Park and is situated at the end of the avenue to Sanssouci Palace. This begins as one of three roads that radiate from the Luisenplatz square. The gate was designed by Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and was put up in 1854 as part of the construction of the Church of Peace. Its name comes from the colour in which the gate was painted. Additional ornamentation is provided by individual bars and points being picked up in gold leaf. The iron gate bears the initials of Frederick William IV.

Wikipedia: Green Gate, Potsdam (EN)

The Protestant Church of Peace is situated in the Marly Gardens on the Green Fence in the palace grounds of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany. The church was built according to the wishes and with the close involvement of the artistically gifted King Frederick William IV and designed by the court architect, Ludwig Persius. After Persius' death in 1845, the architect Friedrich August Stüler was charged with continuing his work. Building included work by Ferdinand von Arnim and Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse also. The church is located in the area covered by the UNESCO World Heritage Site Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.

Wikipedia: Church of Peace, Potsdam (EN), Website

The Marly Garden is a garden area in Potsdam's Sanssouci Park.

Wikipedia: Marlygarten (DE)

Sanssouci is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it, too, is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the surrounding park. The palace was designed and built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to meet Frederick's need for a private residence where he could escape the pomp and ceremony of the royal court. The palace's name is a French phrase meaning "without worries" or "carefree", emphasising that the palace was meant as a place of relaxation rather than a seat of power.

Wikipedia: Sanssouci (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Winzerberg is located in Potsdam and is located east opposite Sanssouci Park. The entrance from the southern foot of the hill is formed by the imposing Triumphal Gate. The Winzerberg is part of the administrative inventory of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, is maintained by a support association that has already completely restored it and has been part of Potsdam's World Heritage Site since 1990.

Wikipedia: Winzerberg (DE), Website

The Obelisk entrance constitutes the eastern limit of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany. Following plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Frederick the Great ordered in 1747 that this exit from the park be built.

Wikipedia: Obelisk (Sanssouci) (EN)

The Werner-Alfred-Bad is a former swimming pool in Potsdam, Germany. It was named after the German aviation pioneer Werner Alfred Pietschker. The facility at Hegelallee 23 has been a health centre since a total renovation in 2009.

Wikipedia: Werner-Alfred-Bad (DE), Heritage Website

The Jägertor from 1733 is the oldest surviving Potsdam city gate. It stands in the axis of Lindenstraße and forms one of the city exits to the north. It was named after the electoral Jägerhof in front of the city. The gate was originally part of the Potsdam excise wall, which was not used for fortification, but was intended to prevent the desertion of soldiers and the smuggling of goods. Since Lindenstraße cut diagonally through the former line of the Wall, the Jägertor was built diagonally to the course of the Wall.

Wikipedia: Jägertor (DE), Heritage Website

The Administrative Court of Potsdam is a court of administrative jurisdiction and one of three administrative courts in Brandenburg. The president of the court is Jan Bodanowitz.

Wikipedia: Verwaltungsgericht Potsdam (DE), Heritage Website

Nauener Tor is one of the three preserved gates of Potsdam, Germany. It was built in 1755 and is the first example of the influence of English Gothic Revival architecture in Continental Europe.

Wikipedia: Nauener Tor (EN), Heritage Website

The Jan Bouman House is a museum located at Mittelstraße 8 in the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. It was named after the Royal Prussian Chief Planning Director and master builder of the district, Jan Bouman.

Wikipedia: Jan Bouman Haus (DE), Website

The Dutch Quarter is a neighborhood in Potsdam, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated.

Wikipedia: Dutch Quarter (EN)

The Christuskirche is a listed building in the Potsdam district of Nauener Vorstadt, Behlertstraße 9. It is the place of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Community of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK).

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Potsdam) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

Built between 1796 and 1797 under King Friedrich Wilhelm II in the immediate vicinity of the New Garden, it is an outstanding monument of early classicist architecture in Germany due to its façade design and the quality of the preserved interiors. The authorship of the building is disputed between Michael Philipp Boumann and Carl Gotthard Langhans. Contrary to tradition and the name, the palace was probably not built for Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau and was not inhabited by her.

Wikipedia: Palais Lichtenau (DE), Heritage Website

The Gothic Library as a two-storey tower pavilion made of sandstone is a building in the New Garden of the state capital Potsdam.

Wikipedia: Gotische Bibliothek (DE), Heritage Website

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.

Wikipedia: Neuer Garten Potsdam (DE), Website, Heritage Website