Palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin
UNESCO world heritage
Sanssouci Palace
National territory:	Germany
Type:	Culture
Criteria :	i, ii.iv
Surface:	2064 ha
Reference No .:	532ter
UNESCO region :	Europe and North America
History of enrollment
Enrollment:	1990  (session 14)
Extension:	1992 and 1999

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is one of the UNESCO -listed site of World Heritage in Germany .

Scope of the world heritage site

The German Democratic Republic applied for the entry of Potsdam's palaces and parks on the UNESCO World Heritage List on September 29, 1989. For its part, the Federal Republic of Germany proposed on June 14, 1990 the part of the Havellandschaft with the palace and gardens in Glienicke and the Pfaueninsel for registration. The basis for the admission was the application documents and the comments submitted by ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) of April 1990 for Potsdam and October 1990 for Berlin .

The world heritage site has been expanded twice. In 1992 the Sacrow Palace and Park were added with the Heilandskirche . In 1999, additional areas were integrated: the lime tree avenue west of the New Palace , the former gardening school and the former Kaiserbahnhof and its surroundings, the Lindstedt palace and park with surrounding lowland, the Bornstedt village with church and cemetery, the Voltaireweg as a connecting path between Sanssouci Park and new garden , the avenue to Sanssouci as the entrance area of the park Sanssouci, the colony Alexandrowka with their chapel hill, the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg with Pomona , the Villa Henckel with garden, Mirbach grove as a connection between Pfingstberg and the new garden, the garden of Villa Alexander as well as the area at the observatory in Babelsberg . The UNESCO World Heritage Site covers a total of 2,064 hectares.

Impairments through drawing boundaries

Today's world heritage was in the German-German border area . In the course of border security, 30 hectares of historical bank views of the Berlin-Brandenburg gardens in Sacrow, Babelsberg and Neuer Garten were destroyed by the barricades built in 1961 with the 3.60 meter high wall, asphalt column roads and watchtowers, and buildings in the exclusion zone fell into disrepair. After the border fortifications fell, this damage was repaired.

See also

• Potsdam palaces and gardens
• Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
• List of castles and palaces in Berlin and Brandenburg
• List of sights of Potsdam

Web links

Commons : Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).
• Potsdam
• Internet presence of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites Germany eV
• 25 years UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin"
• map

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official name English Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin , French Châteaux et parcs de Potsdam et Berlin , German translation according to the World Heritage List. In: Unesco.de. Retrieved March 6, 2018 . 
2. ^ Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 6, 2018 . 
3. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
4. ↑ 2016 exhibition Ars Sacrow eV: Gardeners don't wage war. Shown in RBB on July 17th and ARD-alpha on December 17th, 2016, 8:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Rbb 2016.
5. ↑ Jens Arndt: Gardeners don't wage wars. Prussia's Arcadia and the division of Germany. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name. ISBN 978-3-939629-47-4