Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Potsdam, Germany

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 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 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.

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The Platz der Einheit is one of the oldest squares in Potsdam, along with the 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, Am Kanal in the south and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in the west. It is an important public transport hub.

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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 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 Carriage Horse Stable is a listed building on the Neuer Markt in Potsdam, Germany. It was built between 1787 and 1789 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger in the style of classicism. Since 2003, the former stable for the carriage horses of the city palace ensemble has been home to the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History.

Wikipedia: Kutschpferdestall (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 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.

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The Lindenstraße 54/55 memorial in Potsdam is reminiscent of the political persecution in both German dictatorships. The house, referred to in popularly "Lindenhotel", served as a prison for political prisoners in the period of National Socialism and was taken over in the same function after the war by the Soviet secret service NKWD/MGB and later the state security of the GDR. After the political turn, it was used to the House of Democracy and from 2007 as a memorial.

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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.

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The Dutch Quarter is a neighborhood in Potsdam, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated.

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The Potsdam Administrative Court is a court of administrative jurisdiction and one of three administrative courts in Brandenburg. The President of the court is Jan Bodanowitz.

Wikipedia: Verwaltungsgericht Potsdam (DE), Heritage Website

The Gothic Library is a two-storey tower pavilion made of sandstone and is a building in the New Garden of Potsdam, the state capital.

Wikipedia: Gotische Bibliothek (DE), Heritage Website

The Waschhaus is the largest nightclub of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam in Germany.

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The Hans Otto Theatre, named after the actor Hans Otto, is a municipal theatre in Potsdam in Germany. Its headquarters and main venue is in the Großes Haus am Tiefen See in Potsdam's cultural district on Schiffbauergasse. Other regular venues are the neighbouring historic Reithalle and occasionally the Palace Theatre in the Neues Palais.

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The Gerichtslaube is a historic building in Potsdam's Babelsberg district, which was built in the 13th century as an annex to the Old Town Hall in Berlin. Centuries later, as a result of the construction of the new town hall in 1871, the building took on a life of its own, whereby the original building was moved to the park of Babelsberg and later reshaped there. In Berlin's rebuilt Nikolaiviertel, there is a copy made of modern materials that is used as a restaurant and bears the name Zur Gerichtslaube.

Wikipedia: Gerichtslaube (Berlin) (DE)

Jagdschloss Glienicke is a hunting lodge in the Berlin district of Wannsee near Glienicke Bridge. Babelsberg and Glienicke Palace can be seen nearby. Originally constructed in the late-17th century and expanded in the mid-1800s, the castle is part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site, owing to its cohesion with the surrounding landscape and its testimony to the power of Prussia in the 17-19th centuries.

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The Loggia Alexandra is a belvedere on the Böttcherberg in Berlin-Wannsee above the village of Klein Glienicke, which belongs to Potsdam. The mountain and loggia in the "Klein Glienicke Landscape Park" are part of the World Heritage Site of the Berlin-Potsdam Cultural Landscape, which stretches from Peacock Island to Werder and has been under the protection of UNESCO since 1990 with its palaces and gardens as a whole ensemble.

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The Böttcherberg in the Klein Glienicke Landscape Park is part of the World Heritage Site of the Berlin-Potsdam Cultural Landscape, which stretches from Peacock Island to Werder and has been under the protection of UNESCO since 1990 with its palaces and gardens as a whole.

Wikipedia: Böttcherberg (DE)