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ExploreDISCOVERY Potsdam TOURS BY FOOT, BIKE AND PADDLE BOAT www.potsdamtourismus.de www.potsdam-tourism.com Contents A Walk for Explorers ...................................4 Strolling through the historic City Centre Art by the River ...........................................8 Walk along the River Havel Film Tour .....................................................12 Exploring Film Locations by Foot Old Fritz ......................................................16 By Bike through the UNESCO World Heritage Panoramic Bike Tour .................................20 Exploring historic Vistas Cycling around Lake Templiner See .......24 Bike Trip to the Countryside Peninsula Hermannswerder .....................28 Facing Havel Waves by Paddle Travel inspirations ........................................32 Service, Imprint ...........................................35 3 A Walk for Explorers – Strolling through the historic City Centre This walk takes you through the city centre and seems like a wander through time. From the main station, the path leads to the island Freundschaftsinsel – a gardening gem by Karl Foerster. From here you can already see the Old Market. With the St Nicholas’ Church, which resembles St. Paul‘s Cathedral in London, the Brandenburg Parliament, built on the site of the former city palace, the Potsdam Museum and the Museum Barberini, this square combines an exciting mixture of modernity, culture, art and politics. We continue to the square Bassinplatz. The weekly market as well as the St Peter approx. 2 h (or 4,5 h) and Paul Church are well worth a visit. The brick red of the Dutch approx. 4,5 km (or 9 km) Quarter shines here from afar. Frederick William I, the soldier Potsdam Hauptbahnhof king, wanted to bring Dutch craftsmen to Potsdam with this special architecture. Today you can find small cafés, boutiques 1 Film Museum Potsdam and the Jan Bouman House here. 2 Memorial Lindenstrasse From here you get to Branden- 3 Historic Windmill of Sanssouci burger Strasse, affectionately 4 Museum FLUXUS+ called „Broadway“ by Potsdamers. 5 Museum Barberini Or you can extend the walk 6 Alexandrovka Museum and and visit the Russian Colony Café Uschakoff Alexandrovka with its special 7 Museum of Natural Science wooden houses. From this point, 8 Pedales – Bike and Paddle station it is not far to Sanssouci Park. 9 Potsdam Museum With its artistic gardens and the 10 Restaurant Waikiki Burger summer palace on the wine Old Market with Potsdam Museum 11 Boat Cruise Weisse Flotte terraces, it tells the story of 4 5 Frederick II, the Old Fritz. Via Tip square Luisenplatz and through the gate Brandenburger Tor you Museum Alexandrovka get back to Brandenburger Strasse. The way leads past the Let your soul dangle! In the canal and the New Market back garden of the Alexandrovka to the main station. Museum, you can enjoy cakes under old fruit trees and experience the history of the colony in the museum. www.alexandrowka.de 1 2 Tip Tip Potsdam Museum – Foundation Memorial 1 Memorial Lindenstrasse Forum for art and history Lindenstrasse 2 Dutch Quarter We present living and The memorial reflects contemporary Potsdam continuity and change of 3 Russian Colony history and special exhibitions political persecution and Alexandrovka about art and cultural history. detention from 1933 to 1989. 4 Sanssouci Palace Enjoy our Café Central. www.gedenkstaette- 5 Island Freundschaftsinsel www.potsdam-museum.de lindenstrasse.de 3 4 5 6 7 Art by the River – Walk along the River Havel With Museum Barberini, Potsdam Museum, museum FLUXUS+ in Schiffbauergasse and Villa Schoeningen on Glienicke Bridge, modern art has established itself in Potsdam. A newly created path along the banks of the river Havel allows one to indulge in local art and creativity. The sculptures of the „Walk of Modern Art“ connect art museums along the river Havel. In the open-air gallery, artists at a total of 8 locations deal with the immediate surroundings of the themes of path: water and landscape. The route leads from the Old Market along the banks of Alte Fahrt to the quarter Schiff- approx. 2 h bauergasse. Here, at the cultural hub of the city, you can visit approx. 6 km Kunstraum Potsdam as well as Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, the museum FLUXUS+. Instead of tram 93 walking from the city centre, you Tip A home for art 1 Film Museum Potsdam 2 Memorial Lindenstrasse The Museum Barberini at 3 Museum FLUXUS+ Old Market is a crowd-puller 4 Alexandrovka Museum and and international art hotspot. Café Uschakoff The year 2019 is dedicated 5 Museum of Natural Science to Picasso, Baroque and 6 Pedales – Bike and Paddle station Van Gogh. 7 Potsdam Museum 8 Restaurant Waikiki Burger www.museum-barberini.com 9 Boat cruise Weisse Flotte 10 Huckleberrys Float Station Herbert Mehler, Spola Jörg Plickat, Ambos Mundos Two Worlds 11 Museum Barberini 8 9 can also comfortably use the tram line „Kulturtramlinie 93“ from the cultural hub to Glienicke Bridge. Villa Schoeningen presents internationally renowned artists directly on the shore where works are shown in changing exhibitions within the tower villa. The way back is as inspiring as the art itself. If you want to change your perspective here, we also recommend taking the water taxi back to the harbour. The slightly 1 2 different taxi ride connects all locations and offers a new view back to the shore. For all those who would like to have the 1 Otto Herbert Hajek, works of art explained in expert Dynamic space sighn II company, the public tours on foot 2 Armando, The Warrior or by bicycle are recommended. 3 Museum Barberini 4 Stella Hamberg, Berserker I 5 Schiffbauergasse 6 Rudolf Valenta, Big Fibonacci 3 4 Tip If you would like to know more about art by the river, you can book the year round guided tour (every 1st Saturday of the month from 2pm until 6pm) from the Tourist Information Centre Old Market. www.potsdam-tourism.com 5 6 10 11 Film Tour – Exploring Film Locations by Foot approx. 3 h More than 100 years of exciting Sanssouci Park, you can follow on film history. The surroundings of film history can be discovered the footsteps of cinema films and the museum play an important approx. 5 km in Potsdam. In addition to the series. The Film Museum in Breite role in the film world: New Potsdam Babelsberg film studio, there Strasse, which belongs to the Film Pleasure Ground, Old Market Hauptbahnhof are numerous well-known film University Babelsberg KONRAD and New Market are present in locations in the city centre and WOLF, brings the film-making the former Fridericus Rex films of in the gardens of the palaces. process from script to film alive. the 1920s. Otto Gebühr played On the way from Old Market to Perfect for immersing yourself in the great Prussian king Tip The guided tour „Babelsberg – Filmstars, Mansions, World 1 Botanical Garden history“ offers further stories 2 Film Museum Potsdam about stars like Marlene 3 Memorial Lindenstrasse Dietrich. It takes place every 4 Historic Windmill Sanssouci 1st and 3rd Sunday of the 5 Museum Alexandrovka and month from May to October Café Uschakoff starting at S-Bahn station 6 Museum of Natural Science Griebnitzsee. 7 Pedales – Bike and Paddle station 8 Potsdam Museum www.potsdam-tourism.com 9 Restaurant Waikiki Burger Orangery Palace 10 Boat cruise Weisse Flotte 12 13 1 2 so realistically that the people Tip of Potsdam greeted him on the street as Frederick. The St. Museum in Potsdam‘s Nicholas’ Church at the Old historic centre 1 Film Museum Potsdam Market can be seen in the film „The Wave“ and the new German The Film Museum Potsdam 2 Production TV series „SOKO Potsdam“ was has resided at the Marstall SOKO Potsdam shot around the Dutch quarter. stables since 1981, right next 3 Potsdam‘s City Hall The brick-red quarter certainly to the Brandenburg State also looks familiar to children as Parliament in the historic 4 Brandenburger Strasse they remember“Lilly the Witch“. city centre. Many series fans will undoubtedly recall Claire Danes from the www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de 3 American TV series „Homeland“, where the Dutch Quarter becomes Amsterdam. A detour to the town Tip hall in Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse is a must for crime fans. The building Waikiki Burger appears in „Polizeiruf 110“ and „Pfarrer Braun“. It continues to Aloha & welcome to the Sanssouci Park, which has Waikiki Burger, the Hawaiian served as a backdrop several restaurant with ALOHA flair, times. Konrad Wolf already shot refreshing cocktails and „I was 19“ in the New Chambers Hawaiian soulfood. in 1968 and Hollywood moved the Orangery Palace „Around the www.waikiki-burger.de World in 80 Days“ to Istanbul. 4 14 15 approx. 2.5 h approx. 16 km Old Fritz – Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, Charlottenhof By Bike through the UNESCO World Heritage Station, Signposted with F1 On the footsteps of Frederick the Great, also locally known as the „Old Fritz“, one dives into the magic of the world-famous palaces and gardens, which preserve the splendour of past times to this day. The cycle tour starts at the Old Market, which the Old Fritz once had redesigned in the style of an Italian piazza. From here you pass the Steam Engine House, which resembles a mosque. Arriving at Sanssouci Park, one first feels the breath of Italy at the sight of Charlottenhof Palace. There, one can already notice the impressive dome of the New Palace. Frederick II used this palace as a representative guest house and staged it consciously, while Sanssouci Palace was his very private summer residence. In accordance with his wishes, Frederick‘s grave is now on the uppermost terrace of the palace 1 Belvedere Pfingstberg next to his beloved dogs, where 2 Biosphere Potsdam Tip guests regularly lay down pota- 3 Botanical Gardens By bus through the World toes. The cycle tour continues 4 Film Museum Potsdam Heritage Site along the historic Voltaireweg past 5 Memorial Lindenstrasse 6 Historic Windmill Sanssouci the Russian colony Alexandrovka 7 Huckleberry‘s Float Station Even when it rains, you can to the New Garden.

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