List of sights in Potsdam

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View from Park Babelsberg to the city panorama of Potsdam

The following list contains sights of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam .

Sanssouci Park

The historic Sanssouci park covers an area of ​​around 290 hectares, making it the largest and most famous in the Mark Brandenburg. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Frederick the Great and Frederick William IV shaped the complex in the contemporary styles of Rococo and Classicism and had a total work of art built from architecture and garden design, the heart of which are the vineyard terraces with the crowning Sanssouci Palace.

New garden

The New Garden is a park area of ​​around 100 hectares that borders the Heiligen See and the Jungfernsee in the north of Potsdam . Friedrich Wilhelm II had a new garden laid out on this area from 1787, hence the name. According to the contemporary taste of the English garden, the park should deliberately stand out from the outdated forms of the Baroque ornamental and kitchen garden Sanssouci.

Babelsberg Park

Babelsberg Castle in front of the Havel.

Adjacent to the Tiefen See of the Havel is the 114 hectare park Babelsberg. On behalf of Prince Wilhelm, later Emperor Wilhelm I and his wife Augusta , the garden artists Peter Joseph Lenné and Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau designed the hilly terrain sloping down to the lake into a park landscape from 1833 .

Gardens

Friendship Island

Castles

For an overview of all castles see Castles in Potsdam

Churches

The Prussian tolerance that cannot be overlooked in the city is also expressed in Potsdam's churches: in the middle of Protestant Potsdam there is a large Catholic church, and the oldest Russian Orthodox church in Germany is also located here. Houses of worship were built for colonists from all over Europe: Swiss, French, Bohemians ...

For an overview of all churches see the list of churches in Potsdam

City gates

As a garrison town, Potsdam had a city wall with ten city gates . With their elaborate architectural styles, these served more for representation than for defense. Only four of the city gates are fully visible in the cityscape, two more only in fragments.

Districts and ensembles

District

Facilities and places

building

Museums and exhibitions

Barberini Museum
Nikolaisaal

Villas

Since the 1990s, many architecturally interesting villas have been restored:

  • Villa colony Neubabelsberg
  • Villa Ingenheim
  • Villa Liegnitz
  • Villa of Diringshofen
  • Villa Kampffmeyer at the Glienicke Bridge
  • Villa Schöningen at the Glienicke Bridge
  • Villa Heydert
  • Villa Rohn or Löwenwilla, named after the lions in front of the facade. Since 1941 in the possession of the family von Fritz von der Lancken, a resistance fighter of the Third Reich.
  • Herbertshof, named after Herbert Gutmann, with the Arabic room
  • Palace of Countess Lichtenau , on the Holy See
  • Villa Bach, Spitzweggasse
  • Villa Ernst von Bergmann, Berliner Strasse
  • Villa Gericke , Puschkinallee 17
  • Villa Gutmann
  • Villa Kellermann
  • Villa Kutscherhaus, Persiusstr.
  • Villa General Ladental
  • Villa Mendelssohn, named after the Jewish factory owner Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  • Villa Mosler
  • Villa hull
  • Villa Sarre with lion frieze
  • Villa Spillner; protected as an existing building, Böcklinstrasse / Tizianstrasse
  • Villa Starke (Potsdam-Babelsberg)
  • Villa Stülpnagel , Am Neuen Garten 35, with a splendid coffered door; in the fireplace room there is a large historical map of Berlin in Russian script.
  • Villa Wiener, K. Adenauer lived here in 1934
  • Villa Lademann, where Heinz Rühmann lived during the shooting, the house was built by Otto Lilienthal's brother, Gustav Lilienthal
  • Villa Alfred Zeisler, by Marika Röckk

  • Villa Schöningen

  • Lion villa

  • Villa Gericke

  • Villa Stülpnagel

  • Villa Lademann

Visual arts

The city of Potsdam has a variety of fine arts in the form of sculptures and paintings. The paintings are mainly distributed among the buildings in Sanssouci Park, the Potsdam Museum and the city's churches. The sculptures are mainly distributed in the parks, especially in Sanssouci Park. A lapidarium exhibits some of the originals of the statues.

Waters

Former buildings

  • Potsdam City Palace , damaged in World War II, later blown up and finally reconstructed as the Brandenburg State Parliament building.
  • Garrison church , damaged in World War II, later blown up. Reconstruction of the tower began in 2017.
  • The Royal Theater , Am Kanal 8 (popularly "Canal Opera"). The building was destroyed by artillery fire on April 25, 1945. The façade still preserved was demolished in 1966.
  • Eight corners , only one of four baroque corner houses has been preserved.
  • The Gloriette on Bassinplatz , demolished after the Second World War and replaced by a Soviet cemetery.
  • Large parts of the French Quarter have been preserved as the French Church .
  • Berliner Tor, only one side wing is preserved.
  • Neustädter Tor, only a single obelisk is preserved.
  • The long stable , burned down in 1945, only the elaborate front facade was preserved.
  • The city ​​canal with its numerous bridges was filled in by 1965, it is to be completely reconstructed.
  • Heilig-Geist-Kirche , 1945 badly damaged, 1960 demolition of the nave ruins, 1974 demolition of the tower stump. In 1997 a new building was built in the outline of the church as a senior citizens' residence.
  • Bethlehem Church on Neuendorfer Anger, badly destroyed in 1945, blown up in 1952.
  • Synagogue, looted in 1938, destroyed in 1945.
  • The palace hotel on the Havel and large parts of the Breite Straße.

literature

  • Andreas Kitschke: The Potsdam churches . Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2001, ISBN 3-89643-530-2 .
  • Potsdam palaces in history and art . 4th edition. VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-325-00030-4 (Ed .: State Archive Administration of the GDR, State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci).

Web links

Commons : Potsdam  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Babelsberg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlies Schnaibel: Kita Museum leaves Falkensee . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , insert Havelland , April 10, 2018, p. 13.