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Potsdam UNESCO world heritage sites

Potsdam west

Norman Tower at Ruinenberg
The Ruinenberg is a hill in the Bornstedt borough of Potsdam, located north of Sanssouci Park. In 1748, the Prussian king Frederick the Great had a water tank with a capacity of around 7600 m2 built on top to supply the Sanssouci water features, and had it decorated with artificial ruins. From 1841 a surrounding landscape garden was laid out at the behest of King Frederick William IV of Prussia, according to plans designed by Peter Joseph Lenne.

Sanssouci Palace at Maulbeerallee
The influence of King Frederick's personal taste in the design and decoration of the palace was so great that its style is characterised as "Frederician Rococo", and his feelings for the palace were so strong that he conceived it as "a place that would die with him".

Sanssouci Park at Zur Historischen Muehle 1
Here, for more than 250 years, the highest level of garden design has united with works by the most competent architects and sculptors of their times.

Village Church Bornstedt at Ribbeckstrasse 41
Located north of Sanssouci Park and the Orangery Palace, it is known for the Bornstedt Crown Estate, former residence of Princess Royal Victoria, and the Bornstedt Cemetery with numerous tombs of famous personages.

Wildpark station at Corner Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse
The Wildpark station was built in 1868 on the new line linking Berlin to Magdeburg. At the beginning of the 20th century, after the opening of the bypass lines to Nauen (1902) and Jueterbog (1904), it was built a small rail hub. In 1909 the Kaiserbahnof (see the section below) was inaugurated for the private usage of the Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Lindstedt Palace at Lindstedter Chaussee 1
Lindstedt Palace is part of the ensemble of courtyards and gardens of Potsdam. It was built in the second half of the 19th century by Friedrich Wilhelm IV in late classicism style.

Lime Tree Avenue at Lindenallee
As a "historical cultural landscape element", the "Lindenallee" has a unique spatial and landscape aesthetic significance in terms of age, length, appearance, integrity and architectural connection. It documents the architectonic main axis of the palace and gardens of Sanssouci, which is planted in the landscape and extended for the Potsdam cultural landscape so characteristic transition from the artistically designed plants to the surrounding landscape open space.

Potsdam east

Babelsberg Palace at Park Babelsberg 10
Babelsberg Park (German: Park Babelsberg) is a 114 hectare park in the northeast of the city of Potsdam, bordering on the Tiefen See lake on the River Havel.

Alexandrowka at Russische Kolonie 2
It consists of thirteen wooden houses in Russian style, which were built between 1826 and 1827 on special wish of the former Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm III. Originally the colony was the home of the Russian singers of the First Prussian Regiment of the Guards. The blockhouses are surrounded by generous gardens.

Marble palace at Im Neuen Garten 10
The Marmorpalais (or Marble Palace) is a former royal residence in Potsdam, near Berlin in Germany, built on the grounds of the extensive Neuer Garten on the shores of the Heiliger See (lake).

Mirbach Forest at Grosse Weinmasterstrasse
The narrow terrain between the Great Weinmeisterstrasse and the street Am Neuen Garten, the so-called Mirbachwald, which connects the Lenne facilities on the Pfingstberg with the Neuer Garten, was designed in 1862 in a park-like manner. Its route connects the Albrechtstor in the wall of the New Garden with the Pfingstbergserpentine at the Villa Quandt.

Cecilienhof Palace at Im Neuen Garten 11
Besides the large Ehrenhof (three-sided courtyard) in the centre, which was used only for the arrival and departure of the Crown Prince and his wife, there is a smaller garden court, the Prinzengarten, and three other courts around which the various wings of the building are arranged.

Belvedere Castle at Pfingstberg, Neuer Garten
The twin prospect towers from which the view over Potsdam is achieved rise above a very high podium. This is in the form of a three sided courtyard with central reflecting pool. The three sides of the courtyard are themselves each capped with viewing terraces under colonnades; two Corinthian, one with astylar round arches.

Virgin Lake at Am Jungfernsee
It spans 3.52 kilometres (2.19 mi) in a northwest-southeast direction, widens to 1.45 kilometres (0.90 mi) in the southeast from just 180 metres (590 ft) at its narrowest point.

Kings Forest Nature Preserve at Im Koenigswald
The Sacrower lake extends in a north-south direction for over 2.8 km. Its widest point is 406 m and its narrowest 190 m. Sacrow, a district of Potsdam, is located on the southeastern shore. The remaining shore is forested and part of the Koenigswald Nature Preserve.

Park Sacrow at Krampnitzer Strasse 34
This extraordinarily attractive location was also the reason why Friedrich Wilhelm IV acquired Sacrow in 1840.

Church of the Redeemer at Faehrstrasse
It is famous for its Italian Romanesque Revival architecture with a separate campanile (bell tower) and for its scenic location. It was built in 1844. The design was based on drawings by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, called the Romantic on the Throne.