Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Potsdam, Germany
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9.2 km
255 m
Explore Potsdam in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in PotsdamIndividual Sights in PotsdamSight 1: Augentagesklinik am Kapellenberg
Villa Pietschker, also known as Villa von Winterfeld, is a listed building in Potsdam's Nauener Vorstadt district, Puschkinallee 12.
Sight 2: Pfingstkirche
The Evangelical Pentecost Church in the Potsdam district of Nauener suburb is located in the Große Weinmeisterstraße. It developed from a Pentecost chapel inaugurated in 1894. In addition to the church, the new Pentecostal house, the rectory of the community and the widow house are housed on the Pentecost site.
Wikipedia: Pfingstkirche (Potsdam) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 3: Villa Quandt
Villa Quandt is a villa located 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 holdings of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.
Sight 4: Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift
The Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift at the Potsdam New Garden is a castle-like building complex, which was originally built from 1900 to 1902 under the direction of the architects Lothar Krüger and Arthur Kickton in Neo-Romanesque architectural style as a home for war orphan girl by the Empaler Augusta Foundation.
Wikipedia: Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift (Potsdam) (DE), Heritage Website
Sight 5: Marmor Palace
The Marmorpalais is a former royal residence in Potsdam, near Berlin in Germany, built on the grounds of the extensive Neuer Garten on the shores of the Heiliger See. The palace was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia and designed in the early Neoclassical style by the architects Carl von Gontard and Carl Gotthard Langhans. Despite the name, brick is the main material. The palace remained in use by the Hohenzollern family until the early 20th century. It served as a military museum under communist rule, but has since been restored and is once again open to the public.
Sight 6: Neuer Garten
Like Park Babelsberg and Park Sanssouci, the new garden belongs to the ensemble of the Potsdam Schlossparks. The area is a 102.5 hectare park area that borders on the Holy Lake and Jungfernsee in northern Potsdam. Friedrich Wilhelm II had a new garden created on this area from 1787, which was to stand out from the Baroque Park Sanssouci.
Wikipedia: Neuer Garten Potsdam (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 7: Villa Schöningen
Villa Schöningen is a historic residence in the city of Potsdam, Germany, located at Berliner Straße 86 at the corner with Swan Avenue just west of the Glienicke Bridge, which leads to Berlin.
Sight 8: Glienicker Brücke
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 9: Schloss Glienicke
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.
Sight 10: Jägerhof
Park Glienicke, is an English landscape garden in the southwestern outskirts of Berlin, Germany. It is located in the locality of Wannsee in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough. Close to Glienicke Bridge the park is open to the general public. The park is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. Within the ensemble it is one of the five main parks, the others being Sanssouci Park, New Garden, Babelsberg Park and Peacock Island (Pfaueninsel). Regarding diversity in gardening styles within the Potsdam park ensemble Park Glienicke is only superseded by Sanssouci Park. Furthermore, it is a park especially characterized by one personality due to the intense involvement of Prince Charles of Prussia. The park covers approximately 116 hectares
Sight 11: Blockhaus Nikolskoe
The Nikolskoe Blockhaus is a listed building in the Berlin district of Wannsee and is used as a restaurant. It was built in 1819 by King Frederick William III on the occasion of the visit of his daughter Charlotte and her husband Nicholas in the style of a Russian farmhouse. Damaged in a fire in 1984, it was subsequently rebuilt true to the original.
Sight 12: St. Peter und Paul
Book Ticket*Ss. Peter and Paul Church on Nikolskoë is a Protestant church in the Volkspark Glienecke in Berlin, Germany. It is currently administered by the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The church is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
Wikipedia: Ss. Peter and Paul, Wannsee (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 13: Pfaueninsel
Pfaueninsel is an island in the River Havel situated in Berlin-Wannsee, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in southwestern Berlin, near the border with Potsdam in Brandenburg. The island is part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its outstanding Prussian architecture and is a popular destination for day-trippers. Pfaueninsel is also a nature reserve in accordance with the EU Habitats Directive and a Special Protection Area for wild birds.
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