Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Potsdam, Germany

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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Der Jüdische Friedhof auf dem Pfingstberg in Potsdam, der Hauptstadt des Landes Brandenburg (Deutschland), wurde 1743 angelegt. Er liegt an der Puschkinallee 18, in der Nähe vom Belvedere und ist ein geschütztes Baudenkmal.

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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 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.

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Lepsiushaus is a house museum in Potsdam, Germany.

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Villa Schlieffen is a villa located 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 was built to plans by the master builder, Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the shore of the Jungfernsee lake at the northernmost tip of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany. Construction was carried out from 1790 to 1792 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger.

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The crystal and shell grotto in the new garden is located in the north of the Potsdam park on the banks of the Jungfernsee, southeast of the dairy and north of the Cecilienhof Castle. Friedrich Wilhelm II commissioned the Oberhofbaurat Andreas Ludwig Krüger with the planning of a grotto, which was built under the direction of his son Friedrich Ludwig Carl Krüger between 1791 and 1794 on a specially designed hill. The grotto, built around 1754/56, served as a model in the castle garden of Oranienburg. In contrast to the building there, which was recognizable as a garden architecture, the grotto in the new garden should look like nature. In order to achieve this naturalness, Krüger had the brick building with grass stone from Golzow, limestone from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, plaster stone from the resin, as well as slag and merged, sacrificed bricks, so -called "melt".

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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.

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