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Potsdam


 

:This article is about the German city of Potsdam. There is also Potsdam, New York in the United States of America.

Sights in Potsdam

  • Sanssouci Palace, former palace of the Prussian royal and German imperial families
  • Orangery Palace, former palace for foreign royal guests
  • Neues Palais ("New Palace"), an additional palace in Sanssouci Park, built in 1769
  • Charlottenhof, another palace in Sanssouci Park, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1826)
  • New Garden with two smaller palaces, one of them Cecilienhof, where the Potsdam Conference was held
  • Old Town with the Dutch Quarter (Holländisches Viertel), Brandenburg Gate (1770, not to be confused with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin), St. Nikolai church (1850) and town hall (1753)
  • Babelsberg, a quarter east of the centre, housing the UFA film studios
  • Einstein Tower, Erich Mendelsohn architect, 1920-24
  • Alexandrovka, a small enclave of Russian architecture due to 17th-century Russian immigrants