List of sights in Potsdam

Sanssouci Park

• Sanssouci Palace
• New Palace
• Charlottenhof Palace
• Orangery Palace, also called the Orangery or New Orangery
• New Chambers
• Sanssouci Picture Gallery
• Chinese House
• Church of Peace
• Antique Temple
• Temple of Friendship
• Roman Baths
• Belvedere on the Klausberg
• Dragon House on the Klausberg
• Historic Mill of Sanssouci ''
• Neptune Grotto
• Green Gate at the park entrance
• Botanical Garden, Potsdam
• No longer accessible: The "Fort in the Park" of Sanssouci. A model fort near the New Palace. Filled in since 2004.
• Pheasantry
• Bornstedt Crown Estate, a former royal estate and nowadays a living history centre.

New Garden

• New Garten
• Marble Palace
• Palace kitchen, in the shape of a temple ruin
• Orangery
• Gothic Library
• Pyramids
• Dairy
• Crystal and Shell Grotto
• Dutch Quarter - houses in Dutch style
• Garden houses: the White, Brown, Red and Green House
• Cecilienhof Palace

Babelsberg Park

• Babelsberg Park
• Royal Stables
• Babelsberg Palace
• Little Palace
• Sailors' House
• Steam-powered Pumping Station
• Flatow Tower
• Court Arcade

  Other parks and gardens

• Island of Friendship in the centre of the city with the Karl Foerster perennial garden.
• Karl Foerster Garden in Potsdam-Bornim with its private residence.
• Pleasure Garden, the oldest garden in Potsdam, originally part of the City Palace site
• Potsdam Municipal Park on the old 2001 Federal Garden Show site with the Potsdam Biosphere, a commercially run park.
• Potsdam Wildlife Park, one of the oldest examples of the linkage of courtly tradition and landscape gardening. The wildlife park has an area of over 875 hectares and is located west of Sanssouci Park.
• Bornstedt Cemetery, more-than-400-year-old park with Italian-like church. Amongst those buried here are Ferdinand von Arnim, Peter Joseph Lenné and Ludwig Persius.

  Palaces

Churches

• St. Nicholas' Church,. A giant domed building based on cathedrals in Rome, London and Paris, on the Old Market Square, consecrated in 1837, architects: Schinkel, Persius and Stüler.
• French Church,. Based on the Roman Pantheon and built for French settlers, consecrated in 1753, builders: restored by Knobelsdorff, Boumann, in the past years.
• Roman Catholic Priory Church of St. Peter and Paul,. Like a campanile writ large, the church stands at the end of the Potsdam Bummelboulevard, consecrated in 1870, builders: Stüler, Salzenberg.
• Church of Peace in Sanssouci Park, . This church was established at the entrance to Sanssouci Park like a medieval Italian monastery, consecrated in 1848, builders: Persius, von Arnim, Hesse, Stüler.
• Church of the Redeemer, well outside the town centre, on the banks of the Havel, in the style of an Italian basilica, stood for years in the shadow of the wall in no-man's land, consecrated in 1844, architect: Persius.
• Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church built for the Russian residents of the settlement of Alexandrowka below the Kapellenberg, used without interruption, consecrated 1829, oldest Russian Orthodox church in Germany, architects: Vasily Stasov, Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
• Church of Our Saviour. Evangelical church in Potsdam-West, consecrated in 1898, builder: Möckel
• Church of Christ, wedged between residential buildings continues to be the one-time Old Lutheran church, consecrated in 1903. Today the church is used independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Christ parish. Builder: Grabowsky.
• Pentecostal Church,. This church stands between and the New Garden in an idyllic garden setting, consecrated in 1894, architect: Tiedemann.
• Hermannswerder Island Church, a Neogothic building that belongs to the Hoffbauer Foundation, consecrated in 1911, builder: Gebrüder Bolle.
• Frederick Church on the Weberplatz,. Centrepiece of a settlement for Bohemian weavers in Babelsberg, consecrated in 1753, builder: Boumann.
• Oberlin Church, Babelsberg,. focal point of the Oberlinhaus, inter alia a lyceum for deaf-blind people, consecrated in 1905, builder: Tiedemann.
• Old Neuendorf Church in Babelsberg, built 1850-52, rebuilding started in 1998
• Parish Church of St. Anthony, Roman Catholic church for Babelsberg, consecrated in 1934, architect: Fahlbusch.
• Chapel of Klein-Glienicke, near the city's boundary with Berlin, which meant that the church fell into ruin as a result of its proximity to the Berlin Wall, consecrated in 1881, architect: Reinhold Persius.
• Bornstedt Church, Italianate church that watches over the graves of famous Potsdam townsfolk, consecrated in 1856, builder: Stüler.
• other village churches in the incorporated villages:
• * Bornim. Architect: Tiedemann
• * Eiche
• * Grube
• * Nattwerder
• * Drewitz
• and the churches in the new districts:
• * Stern Church
• * Church of Atonement, Kirchsteigfeld

City gates

• Brandenburg Gate
• Nauen Gate: construction plans by Johann Gottfried Büring based on 1754 sketches by King Frederick II of Prussia. First example of Neogothic in continental Europe.
• Jägertor

  City quarters and ensembles

City quarters

• Dutch Quarter
• Russian Colony of Alexandrowka with its Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church
• Potsdam-Babelsberg and the villa colony of Neubabelsberg as well as the Bohemian Weavers' Quarter
• Brandenburger Straße is the shopping street of Potsdam in the city centre, and is a pedestrian zone, bordered by St. Peter and St. Paul's Church and the Brandenburger Tor.)
• Berliner Vorstadt
• Potsdam West

Open spaces and squares

• Alter Markt, historic centre of the city.
• * Potsdam City Palace,
• * Fortuna Portal, rebuilt 2001/02.
• * Old City Hall, built in the baroque style in 1753 to a design by Andrea Palladio for the Palazzo Angarano in Vicenza that was never executed.
• Neuer Markt, almost entirely preserved baroque square.
• Luisenplatz,, baroque square between Brandenburger Straße and the entrance to Sanssouci Park.
• Bassinplatz with St. Peter and St. Paul's and the French Church.
• Platz der Einheit, central square with modern and historic architecture.
• Glienicke Bridge,, well known for the exchange of agents during the Cold War.
• Potsdam Airship Station
• Babelsberg Film Studio and Babelsberg Film Park
• The new cultural quarter of Schiffbauergasse with the Hans Otto Theatre and the Schinkelhalle.

  Buildings

• Jan Bouman House in the Dutch Quarter
• The Hiller & Brandt Houses located at Breite Strasse 8–12
• The former Great Military Orphanage
• Pomona Temple, the first work by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
• The steam-powered Pump House for the fountains of Sanssouci Park, designed by Ludwig Persius in the shape of a mosque on the bank of the Havel River
• Belvedere on the Pfingstberg
• The former War College on the Brauhausberg hill
• The Emperor's Station , originally the Court Station in Wildpark, has been used since its recent restoration as a Management Academy for the German rail system.
• Karstadt department store with art nouveau facade and atrium
• Werner Alfred Bathhouse
• Bayrisches Haus
• Einstein Tower
• Glass Sweets Factory owned by the firm Katjes. From the gallery, visitors can view the entire sweets-manufacturing process.

  Museums and exhibitions

• Babelsberg Palace
• Belvedere auf dem Klausberg
• Belvedere on the Pfingstberg
• Berlin S-Bahn Museum at Griebnitzsee station
• Cecilienhof
• Charlottenhof Palace
• Einstein Tower
• Extavium Potsdam
• Historic Mill of Sanssouci
• House of Brandenburg-Prussian History at the Neuer Markt
• Jan Bouman House - typical gabled house from 1735 in the Dutch Quarter
• Kommandantenhaus - Memorial Lindenstraße for the victims of political violence in the 20th century
• Marmorpalais
• Memorial Leistikowstraße Potsdam - former KGB prison
• Museum Alexandrowka - Restored 1820s period wooden house in Russian style
• Museum Barberini - Built on the site of Barberini Palace
• Museum FLUXUS+
• Museum ‘Im Güldenen Arm’
• New Chambers
• Nowaweser Weaver's Cottage in the Bohemian Weber Quarter
• Orangery Palace
• Potsdam Film Museum in the historic royal stables, the oldest surviving building in the city
• Potsdam Museum in the Dutch Quarter
• Potsdam Natural History Museum
• Roman Baths
• Sanssouci Palace
• Sanssouci Picture Gallery
• Steam Engine Building in Sanssouci Park - historic pumphouse designed like a mosque
• Villa Schöningen

  Villas

• Neubabelsberg villa colony
• Villa Ingenheim
• Villa Liegnitz
• Villa von Diringshofen
• Villa Kampffmeyer by the Glienicke Bridge
• Villa Schöningen by the Glienicke Bridge
• Villa Heydert
• Villa Rohn also called the Löwenwilla, named after the lions in front of the facade. Owned since 1941 by the Fritz von der Lancken family, a resistance fighter against the Third Reich.
• Herbertshof, named after Herbert Gutmann, with its Arabic Room
• Palace of Countess Lichtenau, on the Heiliger See
• Villa Bach, Spitzweggasse
• Villa Ernst von Bergmann, Berliner Straße
• Villa Gericke, Puschkinallee
• Villa Gutmann
• Villa Kellermann
• Villa Kutscherhaus, Persiusstr.
• Villa General Ladental
• Villa Mendelson, named after the Jewish merchant
• Villa Mosler
• Villa Fritz Rumpf
• Villa Sarna with its lion frieze
• Villa Spillner, Böcklinstraße/Tizianstraße
• Villa Starke
• Villa Stülpnagel, Hegelallee 5, with impressive frame and panel door ; large historic map of Berlin in Russian script in the fireplace room.
• Villa Wiener, Konrad Adenauer lived here in 1934
• Villa Lademann, Heinz Rühmann lived here during filming, the house was built by the brother of Otto Lilienthal, Gustav Lilienthal
• Villa Alfred Zeisler, by Marika Röckk

  Lakes

• Griebnitzsee
• Großer and Kleiner Zernsee
• Heiliger See
• Jungfernsee
• Lehnitzsee
• Teufelssee
• Templiner See
• Tiefer See
• Weißer See
• Potsdam City Canal, rebuilt in 1999

  Literature