Western suburbs of Potsdam
The western suburbs of Potsdam are made up of the districts Brandenburger Vorstadt, Potsdam-West, Friedrichsstadt, Kiewitt and Wildpark. They are located between the Havel, on the banks of which there is an elongated riverside hiking trail, and the Sanssouci Palace Park .
Brandenburg suburb
The Brandenburg suburb begins west of the Brandenburg Gate at Luisenplatz and extends over the area between the Havel and the east-west railway line running there and the Sanssouci Park with the famous World Heritage castles and properties from the time as a royal residence.
The area was mainly built in the second half of the 19th century and in the 1900s, when apartments were urgently needed for the expansion of the garrison and residence town. Here is a largely original, coherent ensemble of old buildings, which was originally designed primarily for senior officers and civil servants and their families. This also results in the typical, generously sized apartments, often with front yard and balconies, much of it in accordance with the then fashionable in the Art Nouveau style . This residential area is particularly popular due to its direct proximity to Sanssouci Park.
In large parts of the Brandenburg suburb, especially in the southeastern area, the Neustädter Havelbucht , multi-storey prefabricated buildings were built in the 1970s. These form the new residential areas “Auf dem Kiewitt” and “Potsdam-West”, which, however, are no longer part of the Brandenburg suburb. The water pumping station for the fountains and water features in Sanssouci Park is also located on the Havel Bay . This was built in the style of a small mosque, the Potsdam mosque , to visually cover it , and it pumps the Havel water from the bay into the neighboring castle park.
The “Auf dem Kiewitt” peninsula connects to the southwest of the Havel Bay as far as Zeppelinstrasse. On the land side, up to the Potsdam Charlottenhof train station , there is the development of Friedrichsstadt , named after the former mayor Hans Friedrichs , which was laid out by the architect Georg Fritsch in the mid-1930s and built in the 1980s in a snake-like manner along the Neustädter Havel bay - until eleven-story apartment blocks and four high-rise buildings were expanded. Friedrichsstadt lies across from the Hermannswerder peninsula , to which it is connected by a cable ferry . The criticism of the disruption of the visual axes in Potsdam that arose after the political turnaround in the 1990s has now largely fallen silent again, also due to the extensive renovation measures and adjustments to the optical views, especially since this area is also the most popular "new building district" due to its direct proximity to the Havel earlier times in Potsdam applies.
Potsdam-West
Out of town in the direction of Werder (Havel) and Brandenburg an der Havel , directly on today's B 1 / Zeppelinstrasse (formerly Reichsstrasse 1 / Luisenstrasse), another housing estate was built in the 1920s and early 1930s, which was laid out in the contemporary style of a garden city . These two older residential districts are now listed and, especially after 1990 , they were extensively renovated. Opposite, on the banks of the Havel, is the 25 hectare former airship port in Potsdam , where airships filled with town gas were built and tested from 1911 to 1918 . After the end of the First World War , Germany was banned under the Versailles Treaty , and parts of the production halls were dismantled as reparations to France and brought there. In 1924 the city bought this area and built a sports field and a regatta course there .
During the GDR era , this sports facility developed into a renowned center of excellence for athletics and for rowing and canoeing . The sports center later developed into the Olympic base in Potsdam and the home of the 1st FFC Turbine Potsdam . Well-known athletes at the sports center at the airship port include the Olympians Udo Beyer , Birgit Fischer and Sebastian Brendel .
There at Lake Templin has Center for Military History and Social Sciences at the German Armed Forces based in the Villa Ingenheim and the Landesbausparkasse Brandenburg and the Congress Hotel Potsdam on airship port are located there.
wildlife Park
Behind the railway bridge, the Pirschheide begins at Templiner See on the Havel side, which extends to Geltow along the Havel bank. Until 1990, the former Potsdam Central Station was also located here, a crossing station, which however lost its status in the course of the fall of the Wall , since then the station has been called Potsdam Pirschheide and is located on the route to Berlin Brandenburg Airport . On the opposite side of Bundesstraße 1 is the Potsdam Wildlife Park , which extends to the districts of Potsdam-Eiche and - Golm and Park Sanssouci. At the end of the wildlife park are the New Palace and the main location (Campus I) of the University of Potsdam ; also the associated Deutsche Bahn stop called Potsdam Park Sanssouci station with the former imperial train station , which is now the DB Academy.
Individual residential developments are located in the so-called "Sonnenland" settlement, which was also built in the early 1920s on the edge of the forest area. Like the neighboring settlement “Stadtheide”, it has a more village-like character.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ' N , 13 ° 2' E