Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Potsdam, Germany

The Evangelical Church of the Redeemer is located in Potsdam's Brandenburger Vorstadt district at the intersection of Nansenstraße and Meistersingerstraße. With its height of 74 metres, the slender tower is a landmark of the Brandenburg suburb and can be seen from afar.

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

The Seerose Potsdam is a waterfront pavilion in Potsdam, Germany. The eight-fold curved roof structure in the form of a leaf rosette is a hypar shell construction and was designed by civil engineer Ulrich Müther. On 21 December 2004, the building was listed as a historical monument by the Brandenburg State Monuments Office. The architectural style of the water lily is assigned to organic architecture.

Wikipedia: Seerose Potsdam (DE), Heritage Website

The Preacher's Widow's House is a listed building in the northern city center of Potsdam, Breite Straße 14 [formerly 25].

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

The Hiller-Brandtsche Houses are the buildings in Breiten Strasse 8 to 12 in Potsdam, which were completed in 1769. King Frederick II had the two town houses rebuilt with a uniform facade by plans by Georg Christian Unger and expanded it to expand a barracks. The building is named after its users, the merchant Johann Friedrich Hiller and the master tailor Johann Gebhardt Brandt. Since the renovation, the listed building has been having housed rental and condominiums since 2013.

Wikipedia: Hiller-Brandtsche Häuser (DE), Heritage Website

The houses at Schloßstraße 13 and 14 in Potsdam are protected buildings.

Wikipedia: Schloßstraße 13 und 14 (Potsdam) (DE), Website

The Filmmuseum Potsdam was founded in 1981 as the "Film Museum of the GDR", making it the oldest film museum with its own collection and exhibitions in Germany and received its current name in 1990. It has been under the sponsorship of the State of Brandenburg since 1991 and is organizationally part of the Film University Babelsberg. At the heart of the collections and the permanent exhibition are the world's oldest film studio in Babelsberg, its film productions and the artists who worked there on films by Bioscop, Ufa, DEFA and Studio Babelsberg. Temporary exhibitions, family exhibitions and foyer exhibitions on German and international film and media topics complete the exhibition programme. The Film Museum operates a museum shop as well as a cinema with several screenings daily, silent film screenings are accompanied by music on the historic Welte cinema organ.

Wikipedia: Filmmuseum Potsdam (DE), Website

The House of Brandenburg-Prussian History (HBPG) is a museum in the New Market in Potsdam, which is located in the coachhorse stable. It is understood as an open forum for active engagement with Brandenburg and Prussian history.

Wikipedia: Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte (DE), Website

The Brockess House, also known as Brockess Palace in recent publications, is a listed residential and manufactory building in downtown Potsdam. It was built in 1776, after Carl von Gontards, on the Am Kanal Street with grants from Friedrich II for the glass grinder Johann Christoph Brockes. After numerous changes of ownership and a longer vacancy, the palace was completely restored to the monument-oriented extent until the end of 2016 and has since been used as a residential building.

Wikipedia: Brockessches Haus (DE), Heritage Website

The marble sculpture Monument to the Unknown Deserter was created in 1989 at the instigation of the "Bonn Peace Plenum" by the Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy, who was living in Berlin at the time.

Wikipedia: Deserteurdenkmal (Bonn/Potsdam) (DE), Website

The Old Synagogue in Potsdam was built between 1900 and 1903 according to designs by the architect Otto Kerwien and was inaugurated on 17 June 1903. The synagogue was destroyed at the end of World War II. After the demolition of its ruins in the 1950s, the area was redeveloped with residential buildings.

Wikipedia: Alte Synagoge (Potsdam) (DE)

The Extavium, the so-called participatory world, is a scientific, didactic institution with an exhibition in Potsdam.

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The Old Town Hall in Potsdam is located on the Alter Markt in the vicinity of St. Nicholas' Church, the Barberini Museum and opposite the City Palace. It was built between 1753 and 1755 according to the ideas and orders of Frederick the Great and according to plans by the master builders Johann Boumann and Christian Ludwig Hildebrandt. As with other buildings in Potsdam, Italian baroque architecture served as a model.

Wikipedia: Altes Rathaus (Potsdam) (DE), Heritage Website

The Old Market Square is a centrally located square in downtown Potsdam which forms the historical centre of the city. The square consists of the area around St. Nicholas' Church. Today the term refers in particular to the area directly in front of the church. It is bordered by several prestigious historical buildings. The square has been the site of much architectural reconstruction work in recent years which has restored much historic building fabric that was lost in World War Two.

Wikipedia: Old Market Square, Potsdam (EN), Heritage Website

The Fortuna on the Old Market in Potsdam, opposite the Church of St. Nikolai, was designed by the Dutch architect Jean de Bodt in 1701 as the entrance gate to the Potsdam city palace and 1701 on the occasion of the self -crowning of the Elector Friedrich III. inaugurated to King Frederick I in Prussia. Since then, the construction of the Fortuna portal has been the beginning of classic Potsdam architecture.

Wikipedia: Fortunaportal (DE)

Founded at the beginning of the 20th century, the Potsdam Museum – Forum for Art and History has one of the largest collections of art, cultural and regional history in the state of Brandenburg with over 250,000 objects. The collection reflects the civic commitment and passion for collecting of the founding years. The diverse collections include cultural-historical and military-historical areas as well as works of artistic creation.

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The Knobelsdorffhaus is a town house at Alter Markt 9, formerly Brauerstraße 10, in the immediate vicinity of the Old Town Hall on the east side of the Alter Markt in Potsdam. Together with the Old Town Hall and the glass passageway, it forms the Potsdam Museum in place of the destroyed Windelband House.

Wikipedia: Knobelsdorffhaus (DE), Heritage Website

The Step of the Century is a bronze sculpture that was created by Wolfgang Mattheuer in 1984. It is considered one of the most important works of art in the GDR at the time of the division of Germany and is a parable of the turmoil of the 20th century.

Wikipedia: The Step of the Century (EN)

The supplicant lime tree stood in Potsdam's Humboldtstraße, at the southern corner of the City Palace. It was the most famous tree in the city. In the place of the original tree, there is now a second lime tree, which is also called the supplicant lime tree.

Wikipedia: Bittschriftenlinde (DE)

The pleasure garden was the oldest garden in Potsdam. Its area is framed by the Breiten Straße with the Marstall in the north, the Havel in the east, the railway embankment in the south and the Ministry of the Interior in the west. When baroque garden under the great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm created for the city palace and half of King Friedrich Wilhelm I. transformed half into a parade area, the rest was redesigned by Frederick II and in 1829 by Peter Joseph Lenné. After the Second World War, the damaged lust garden was built with the Ernst Thälmann Stadium and later with the Interhotel Potsdam. On the occasion of the Federal Garden Show in 2001, the mostly sealed new pleasure garden was created as an event area after the stadium without replacing the stadium.

Wikipedia: Lustgarten (Potsdam) (DE)