Babelsberg Park - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

Lake/ River/ Ponds

Parks

Palaces

Urban Walks

About Babelsberg Park

This 114-hectare park is located in the north-east of Potsdam, bordering on the Tiefen See lake on the River Havel. It was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. The park was created in rolling terrain sloping down towards the lake.

Hotels near Babelsberg Park

Hotels to stay near Babelsberg Park

Stars:

Guest rating:

Good

Stars:

Guest rating:

Excellent

Stars:

Guest rating:

Excellent

Activities Around

Attractions Near Babelsberg Park

Babelsberg Palace

Babelsberg Palace

0.34km from Babelsberg Park

Babelsberg Palace is located in the eponymous park in Potsdam. For more than 50 years, it was the summer residence for royals. It was placed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. The building, designed in the English Gothic revival style, was built in two phases over the period 1835–1849.

Glienicke Bridge

Glienicke Bridge

1.01km from Babelsberg Park

The Glienicke Bridge stands across the Havel River in Germany, connecting Berlin with Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907. During the Cold War, this portion of the Havel River formed the border between West Berlin and East Germany. The bridge was used several times for the exchange of captured spies and thus became known as the Bridge of Spies.

New Garden

New Garden

2.17km from Babelsberg Park

The New Garden is a park in Potsdam with 102.5 hectares located south-west Berlin, Germany. Starting in 1787, Frederick William II arranged to have a new garden in this location and later, and it came to be known by this rather prosaic name. The New Garden is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Cecilienhof Palace is located in the northern part of the New Garden.

Dutch Quarter

Dutch Quarter

2.23km from Babelsberg Park

Holländisches Viertel or the Dutch Quarter is a neighborhood in Potsdam that includes 134 of red Dutch brick buildings; unplastered, with white seams, shuttered windows, and sometimes, sweeping gables. It was built in 1740 for Dutch craftsmen who were invited to come to Potsdam by King Frederick Wilhelm I.

Cecilienhof Palace

Cecilienhof Palace

2.26km from Babelsberg Park

Cecilienhof Palace is located in Potsdam, Germany, built in 1917 in an English Tudor manor house's layout. Cecilienhof was the last palace established by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Prussia Kingdom and the German Empire until World War I. Cecilienhof Palace was the location of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, in which the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States made important decisions affecting the shape of post World War II Europe and Asia.

Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter is located in the center of Potsdam. The current church building was built in 1870 and served both the Potsdam parishioners and the Catholic soldiers stationed in the city.

Discover More Attractions in Brandenburg, Home of Babelsberg Park

Brandenburg

Brandenburg

20 attractions

In late medieval and early modern times, Brandenburg was one of seven electoral states of the Holy Roman Empire, and, along with Prussia, formed the original core of the German Empire, the first unified German state.

Location of Babelsberg Park

Comments

For more information about Babelsberg Park, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelsberg_Park

To view all hotels near Babelsberg Park, visit: Hotels near Babelsberg Park