Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Potsdam, Germany

Volkspark Potsdam is located in Bornstedter Feld in the north of the city of Potsdam. The area stretches over three kilometres to the Jungfernsee in the north and to the "Lennésche Feldflur" in the west. In the south it borders on the Ruinenberg of Sanssouci Park and on the Nauener Vorstadt and in the east on the Pfingstberg. With an area of 65 hectares, the park comprises the sub-areas In den Wällen, Kleiner and Großer Wiesenpark, Remisenpark and Waldpark (Schragen). The site, which is managed by the development agency Bornstedter Feld, is subject to admission.

Wikipedia: Volkspark Potsdam (DE)

The Jewish cemetery on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, the capital of the state of Brandenburg (Germany), was established in 1743. It is located at Puschkinallee 18, near the Belvedere and is a protected monument.

Wikipedia: Jüdischer Friedhof (Potsdam) (DE), Heritage Website

Villa Quandt is a villa 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 collection of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.

Wikipedia: Villa Quandt (DE), Heritage Website

Lepsiushaus is a house museum in Potsdam, Germany.

Wikipedia: Lepsiushaus (EN), Website, Heritage Website

Villa Schlieffen is a villa on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, Germany. It is part of the administrative portfolio of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.

Wikipedia: Villa Schlieffen (DE), Heritage Website

The Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift at Potsdam's New Garden is a castle-like building complex that was built from 1900 to 1902 under the direction of the architects Lothar Krüger and Arthur Kickton in the neo-Romanesque architectural style, originally as a home for war-orphaned girls by the Empress Augusta Foundation.

Wikipedia: Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift (Potsdam) (DE), Heritage Website

Like Babelsberg Park and Sanssouci Park, the New Garden is part of the ensemble of Potsdam's Palace Parks. The area is a 102.5-hectare park area bordering the Heiliger See and the Jungfernsee in the north of Potsdam. From 1787, Friedrich Wilhelm II had a new garden laid out on this site, which was to stand out from the baroque Sanssouci Park.

Wikipedia: Neuer Garten Potsdam (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Crystal and Shell Grotto in the New Garden is located in the north of Potsdam's park on the shore of the Jungfernsee, southeast within sight of the Meierei and north of Cecilienhof Palace. Frederick William II commissioned the chief court architect Andreas Ludwig Krüger to plan a grotto, which was built between 1791 and 1794 under the direction of his son Friedrich Ludwig Carl Krüger on a specially created hill. The grotto in the castle garden of Oranienburg, built around 1754/56, served as a model. In contrast to the building there, which was recognizable as garden architecture, the grotto in the New Garden was intended to look as if it had been created by nature. In order to achieve this naturalness, Krüger had the brick building clad with turf ironstone from Golzow, tufa from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, gypsum stone from the Harz Mountains as well as slag and fused, sintered bricks, so-called "Schmolz".

Wikipedia: Muschelgrotte im Neuen Garten (DE), Heritage Website