Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Potsdam, Germany

Charlottenhof Palace or Charlottenhof Manor is a former royal palace located southwest of Sanssouci Palace in Sanssouci Park at Potsdam, Germany. It is best known as the summer residence of Crown Prince Frederick William. Today it is maintained by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg.

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

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

The former steam engine house for Sanssouci – also known as the "pump house" or "mosque" – is located in Potsdam on the Neustadt Havel Bay. It was built at the request of King Frederick William IV in the years 1841–1843 under the direction of Ludwig Persius for the operation of the Great Fountain in front of Sanssouci Palace. It is one of the Historical Landmarks of Engineering in Germany and is an outstanding example of Orientalizing architecture.

Wikipedia: Dampfmaschinenhaus für Sanssouci (DE), 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. The building was placed under monument protection by the Brandenburg State Monuments Office on 21 December 2004. The architectural style of the water lily is assigned to organic architecture.

Wikipedia: Seerose Potsdam (DE), Heritage Website

Hiller-Brandt houses are the buildings completed in 1769 at Breite Straße 8 to 12 in Potsdam. King Frederick II had the two town houses rebuilt with a uniform façade according to plans by Georg Christian Unger and expanded by 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 housed rental and owner-occupied apartments since 2013.

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

The Predigerwitwenhaus is a listed building in the northern city center of Potsdam, Breite Straße 14 [formerly 25].

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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

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

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The Alte Wache is an early classicist building in Potsdam, Germany. It was built on behalf of King Frederick William II in 1795–97 according to plans by Andreas Ludwig Krüger.

Wikipedia: Alte Wache (Potsdam) (DE), Heritage Website

The Potsdam carillon on the plantation in Potsdam, is the replica of the historic carillon of the Garrison Church about 200 meters north of the original location. It has been a listed building since July 2021.

Wikipedia: Potsdamer Glockenspiel (DE)

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 Platz der Einheit is one of the oldest squares in Potsdam, along with Bassinplatz and the Plantage. Laid out under the Soldier King Friedrich Wilhelm I, the square is bordered by the Wilhelmgalerie in the north, residential buildings in the east, the street Am Kanal in the south and the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in the west. It is an important public transport hub.

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St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam is a Lutheran church under the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia of the Evangelical Church in Germany on the Old Market Square in Potsdam. The central plan building in the Classicist style and dedicated to Saint Nicholas was built to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the years 1830 to 1837. The tambour of the 77-metre-high church that towers above the roofs of the city was built later, from 1843 to 1850. Its construction was taken over by Ludwig Persius and, from 1845, Friedrich August Stüler.

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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 II.

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

The Old Town Hall is a Palladian secular building on the Alter Markt in Potsdam. It was built between 1753 and 1755 on behalf of Frederick the Great according to designs by Johann Boumann and Carl Ludwig Hildebrandt. The model was the Palazzo Angarano in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio but not executed. Damaged in the air raid on Potsdam in 1945, the Old Town Hall was rebuilt from 1961 to 1966. Since 2012, it has been the seat of the Potsdam Museum.

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

The NANO Science Center is a scientific, didactic institution with an exhibition in Potsdam.

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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 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 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