Potsdam

Prussian Palaces and Parks
UNESCO-World Heritage since 1990

The cultural landscape of Potsdam and Berlin is the most extensive of all Germany’s world heritage sites. The parks, created over hundreds of years in Potsdam and Berlin under Prussia’s Electors, Kaisers and Kings, form an ensemble which is unique.

Great architects, famous artists and landscape designers have all left their mark on this work of art, whose elaborate gardens and numerous buildings are linked together in myriad ways, both geographically and aesthetically.

The Berlin and Potsdam world heritage site consists of Sanssouci Park, the New Garden, Babelsberg Park and Glienicke Park which, together with their respective palaces, form harmonious ensembles.

Also included are the village of Klein-Glienicke, Glienicke Hunting Lodge, Peacock Island and Sacrow Palace and Park with the Church of the Redeemer, as well as numerous other areas of Potsdam, for instance, the Pfingstberg, Lindstedt Palace, the Russian colony of Alexandrowka and the estate of Bornstedt.

Route Suggestion
From Berlin-Potsdam via Wittenberg, Dessau to Eisleben