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Potsdam (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region.
Explore Potsdam's stunning palaces, parks and lakes, a legacy of Prussian kings and a Cold War hotspot. Discover the Dutch Quarter, the Weisse Flotte steamboats and the Babelsberg film studios in this culturally rich city.
- Sanssouci Palace. Frederick the Great’s summer palace was built between 1745 and 1747 as somewhere he could escape from the strictures of the Berlin court.
- Sanssouci Park. The palace and its terraced garden are at the centre of an expansive park designed and landscaped in the decades that followed. The size of this project is almost bewildering, as the park encompasses almost 300 hectares and is crisscrossed by alleys framed by hedges trimmed at right angles.
- Dutch Quarter. During Potsdam’s second expansion between 1733 and 1742 a whole neighbourhood of Dutch-style red brick gabled houses cropped up either side of Mittelstraße.
- Cecilienhof. The House of Hohenzollern’s final palace was built during the First World War in the style of an English Tudor mansion. Cecilienhof is half-timbered and has decorative turreted chimney stacks.
- Schloss & Park Sanssouci. This glorious park and palace ensemble is what happens when a king has good taste, plenty of cash and access to the finest architects and artists of the…
- Schloss Sanssouci. Frederick the Great's famous summer palace, this rococo gem was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in 1747 and sits daintily above vine-draped…
- Museum Barberini. The original Barberini Palace was a baroque Roman palazzo commissioned by Frederick the Great and bombed to bits in World War II.
- Chinesisches Haus. The 18th-century fad for the Far East is strongly reflected in the adorable Chinese House. The cloverleaf-shaped pavilion is among the park's most…
Potsdam, Germany. Potsdam was the residence of the Prussian kings and German Kaisers until 1918. It is the site of the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany. The city is now the capital of the German federal state of Brandenburg and a home to three public colleges and a major film production studio.
Potsdam, city, capital of Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. Lying on the southwest border of Berlin, it is sited where the Nuthe River flows into the Havel River, the confluence becoming a series of lakes.
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