Babelsberg Park, UNESCO Heritage park in Potsdam, Germany
Babelsberg Park is a 114-hectare landscape garden along the Havel River in Potsdam, with Babelsberg Palace as its focal point. The grounds contain terraced gardens with fountains, several artificial lakes, and a flowing waterway that winds through the entire property.
Construction began in 1833 when Crown Prince William and Princess Augusta commissioned the park through landscape architects Peter Joseph Lenné and Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. The two designers created a work that blended German Romanticism with the broader European landscape movements of that era.
The park's name draws from the Tower of Babel, reflecting the Romanticist approach of blending landscape styles from different regions. As you walk through, you find open meadows flowing into wooded sections, each area offering its own character and inviting exploration.
The park is accessible by public transportation through stops at Potsdam Schloss Babelsberg or Alt Nowawes. It opens at 8 AM daily and remains open until sunset, with multiple entry points scattered across the grounds for convenient access.
The park features an ingenious artificial water system with lakes, waterfalls, and streams originally engineered to irrigate plants across the sloping terrain. This 19th-century engineering solution still functions partly today and greatly enhances the visual appeal of the landscape.
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