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Jüterbog in Brandenburg

31 January 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Jüterbog is a historic town in north-eastern Germany, in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg. It is on the Nuthe river at the northern slope of the Fläming hill range, about 65 km (40 mi) southwest of Berlin.   read more…

Potsdam Synagogue Center

9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Potsdam Synagogue Center is a building in Potsdam‘s city center for the local Jewish community. It is located at Schloßstraße 8, opposite the Film Museum. Following the Small Synagogue of the European Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam’s New Palace, which opened in August 2021, this is the second new Jewish house of worship in Brandenburg’s state capital since the Shoah.   read more…

Dutch Quarter in Potsdam

18 February 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Dutch Quarter (Holländisches Viertel) is a neighborhood in Potsdam, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated. The mix of living space, small shops, galleries, workshops, pubs, restaurants and cafés give the Dutch Quarter a flair that makes it popular with residents and tourists alike.   read more…

Garrison Church in Potsdam

27 August 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Garrison Church (German: Garnisonkirche) was a Protestant church in the historic centre of Potsdam. Built by order of King Frederick William I of Prussia according to plans by Philipp Gerlach from 1730 to 1735, it was considered as a major work of Prussian Baroque architecture. With a height of almost 90 metres (295 feet), it was Potsdam’s tallest building and shaped its cityscape. In addition, the Garrison Church was part of the city’s famous “Three Churches View” together with the St. Nicholas Church and the Holy Spirit Church.   read more…

Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve in Brandenburg

20 May 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Environment, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve, often shortened to Schorfheide, is a biosphere reserve in the German State of Brandenburg near the Polish border. The reserve was established on 1 October 1990 following the German Reunification and is under the protection of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme. It stretches over the German districts of Barnim, Uckermark, Märkisch-Oderland and Oberhavel and incorporates an area of 1,291 square kilometres (498 sq mi). Notable towns are Eberswalde, Joachimsthal and Friedrichswalde. The core area of the reserve is formed by the Schorfheide forest, one of the largest cohesive woodlands in Germany.   read more…

St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam

13 May 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Architecture, Berlin Reading Time:  12 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post St. Nicholas Church (German: St. Nikolaikirche) in Potsdam is a Lutheran church under the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia of the Evangelical Church in Germany on the Old Market Square (Alter Markt) in Potsdam. The central plan building in the Classicist style and dedicated to Saint Nicholas was built to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the years 1830 to 1837.   read more…

New Garden in Potsdam

14 May 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Berlin, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The New Garden (German: Neuer Garten) in Potsdam is a park of 102.5 hectares located southwest of Berlin, Germany, in northern Potsdam and bordering on the lakes Heiliger See and Jungfernsee. Starting in 1787, Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797) arranged to have a new garden laid out on this site, and it came to be known by this rather prosaic name. The New Garden is one of the ensembles comprising the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin,” a status awarded in 1990.   read more…

Theme Week Potsdam – Cecilienhof Palace

13 November 2017 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Berlin, Hotels, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  14 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire until the end of World War I. Cecilienhof has been part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Cecilienhof is located in the northern part of the large New Garden park, close to the shore of the Jungfernsee lake. The park was laid out from 1787 at the behest of King Frederick William II of Prussia, modelled on the Wörlitz Park in Anhalt-Dessau. Frederick William II also had the Marmorpalais (Marble Palace) built within the Neuer Garten, the first Brandenburg palace in the Neoclassical style erected according to plans designed by Carl von Gontard and Carl Gotthard Langhans, which was finished in 1793. Other structures within the park close to Schloss Cecilienhof include an orangery, an artificial grotto (Muschelgrotte), the “Gothic Library”, and the Dairy in the New Garden, also constructed for King Frederick William II. The park was largely redesigned as an English landscape garden according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné from 1816 onwards, with lines of sight to nearby Pfaueninsel, Glienicke Palace, Babelsberg Palace, and the Church of the Redeemer.   read more…

Rheinsberg Palace in Brandenburg

10 November 2017 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Rheinsberg Palace lies in the municipality of Rheinsberg, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Berlin in the German district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin. The palace on the eastern shore of the Grienericksee is a classic example of the so-called Frederician Rococo architecture style and served as a basis for Sanssouci Palace. The palace rose to literary fame when it was described by Theodor Fontane in his book Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (“Walks through the March of Brandenburg“) and by Kurt Tucholsky in his Rheinsberg. Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte (“Rheinsberg. A Picture Book for Those in Love”). Until expropriation in 1945, Rheinsberg Palace was owned by the House of Hohenzollern.   read more…