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Learn more about the restricted areas of the “Cold War” in the former Prussian residential city. What happened in the cordoned off KGB town and how did the people of Potsdam live with the Soviets in the neighborhood? It also goes to the venue of the Potsdam Conference in summer 1945 and to the notorious spy bridge
.Our 2.5-hour city tour into a largely unknown past: Large parts of the city of Potsdam were restricted areas — no one from Potsdam had access.
We start at Glienicke Bridge, which became world-famous as a spy bridge. During the Cold War, agents were exchanged here between East and West, as the bridge formed the border between the GDR and the American sector in West Berlin. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the bridge was a strictly shielded restricted area. The Hollywood movie “Bridge of Spies” with Tom Hanks was filmed on the bridge a few years ago
.Along the shoreline that was formerly connected to the border fortifications of the Berlin Wall, it goes to the UNESCO World Heritage Park New Garden.
For the Potsdam Conference in summer 1945, the park and Cecilienhof Palace were closed to the public. The most powerful heads of state in the world of that time came to Potsdam: Soviet Head of State Josef Stalin, US President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The conference was an end point of the Second World War, but at the same time a starting point of the
Cold War.Finally, it's off to the neighborhood right next to the New Garden, which for almost five decades formed the military town No. 7 — a Forbidden City. It was one of the most important secret service sites of the Soviets during the Cold War. Among other things, the KGB's German military counterintelligence headquarters and a notorious remand prison were located here. During the city tour, guests learn more about working and living in this Forbidden
City.This guided tour of the “Forbidden City” ends at the Leistikowstraße Memorial. It is possible to visit the memorial or the exhibition at Cecilienhof Palace afterwards
.Attention! Combined option: The city tour “In the Forbidden City” can be perfectly combined with the previous 1.5-hour tour “Babelsberg Park in the Shadow of World History.” For everyone who is particularly thirsty for knowledge and active! Valid only on the 1st Saturday of the month (from April
).Note: A visit to the premises of Cecilienhof Palace as the venue for the Potsdam Conference with the conference room is not part of the tour, but can be arranged as an option for a private tour. A guide license for Cecilienhof Palace is available. Admission would then be separate and the guided tour may then be reduced somewhat elsewhere or extended to approx. 3 hours for an additional charge. Please arrange with us in advance
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