Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Potsdam, Germany

The historical Royal Prussian War School and the Schwechten building is a building complex that was built on the Potsdam Brauhausberg from 1899 to 1902 on the instructions of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The building ensemble was continuously used after the dissolution of the war school in 1919; From 1946 to 1952 and from 1990 to 2013 it housed the Brandenburg state parliament until it was replaced by the Potsdam city palace. From December 2015 to September 2018 it was a refugee accommodation. From the second half of 2019, 200 apartments will be built in the building. In the GDR period, the nickname "Kremlin" prevailed for the complex.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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The Marstall is a listed building on Breite Straße in Potsdam, Germany. Built in 1685 by Johann Arnold Nering in the Baroque style as an orangery, it has been rebuilt and expanded several times over the course of history. The former riding stable of the City Palace is the oldest surviving building in the city and has been home to the Potsdam Film Museum since 1981.

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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.

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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.

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The Potsdam City Palace is a building in Potsdam, Germany, located on the Old Market Square, next to the St. Nicholas' Church (Nikolaikirche). It was the second official residence of the margraves and electors of Brandenburg, later kings in Prussia, kings of Prussia and German emperors.

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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.

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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.

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The obelisk on the Old Market Square was built between 1753 and 1755 according to a design by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. It reaches a height of almost 25 meters. Its location marks the common intersection of all the mirror axes of the baroque predecessor building of St. Nicholas' Church, the Old Town Hall and the Barberini Palace.

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The Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam opened in 2017. Its exhibitions range from the so-called Old Masters to contemporary art, with an emphasis on impressionist painting. Centered around works from the collection of its founder and patron Hasso Plattner, the Barberini presents three temporary exhibitions per year, featuring loans from international museums and private collections. Academic conferences serve to prepare these exhibitions. At the same time, shorter gallery displays – the so-called “art histories” – put works from the collection into constantly shifting contexts. The museum aims to offer a diverse programme of events and educational activities as well as digital offers like the Barberini App and the 4K Smart Wall in the museum.

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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.

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The Nuthepark is a near-natural landscape park in Potsdam, Germany. The park stretches along the east bank of the Havel south and north of the mouth of the Nuthe, starting in the south at Potsdam Central Station and ending at Babelsberg Park. It was rebuilt between 1998 and 2001 in the course of preparations for the 2001 Federal Horticultural Show on a fallow site. To connect the two parts, the Nuthe is spanned by a pedestrian and cyclist bridge just before the mouth. The green spaces of the Investment Bank of the State of Brandenburg, which were newly created in 2020, are to merge with the areas of the Nuthepark in the future.

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