In the Forbidden City - Potsdam City Tour

The popular 2,5-hour Stadtführung leads into a largely unknown past: Large parts of the city Potsdam were restricted area – No one from Potsdam was allowed entry.

The city tour starts at the Glienicke Bridge, as Spy bridge became world-famous. During the Cold War, this was Agents between East and West exchanged, because the bridge formed the border between the GDR and the American sector in West BerlinUntil the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the bridge was a strictly guarded restricted area. The Hollywood film "Bridge of Spies" starring Tom Hanks was filmed on the bridge a few years ago.

Along the shoreline, which used to be connected to the Border installations of the Berlin Wall where it was blocked, the path leads into the UNESCO World Heritage Park New Garden.

For the Potsdam Conference In the summer of 1945, the park and the Cecilienhof Palace Closed to the public. The most powerful heads of state of the world at that time came to Potsdam: Soviet leader Joseph 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 also a starting point of the Cold War.

Finally, the city tour leads to the district directly adjacent to the New Garden, which for almost five decades was the Military Town No. 7 formed – a Forbidden CityShe was one of the most important Intelligence agency locations of the Soviets during the Cold War. Among other things, the German headquarters of the Soviet Union was located here. KGB military counterintelligence as well as a notorious Remand prisonDuring the guided tour, guests learn more about the work and life in this Forbidden City.

This ends at the Leistikowstraße memorial site. Guided tour through the "Forbidden City". An individual visit to the memorial site is possible afterwards.