Potsdam - Neuer Garten and Mauener Vorstadt

The houses in the little settlement of Alexandrowka in Potsdam were built for the last twelve members of a 62-strong choir of Russian soldiers who found their way here during Napoleon's Russian campaign. The houses were based on Russian models, and the settlement was laid out by P. J. Lenné in the form of a St Andrew's cross.

Among other buildings in the Neuer Garten in Potsdam (an obelisk, a Gothic temple, pyramids, the Red House, the Green House, the Dairy) is Schloss Cecilienhof (by P. Schultze-Naumburg, 1913-17), in the style of an English country house. This was the meeting place of the Potsdam Conference of July-August, 1945, (conference room, with its original furniture; rooms occupied by the heads of government).

On the road passing through the Russian colony of Alexandrowka in Potsdam are the Jewish cemetery (1743) and the Kapellenberg, on which is the Russian Orthodox church of Alexander Nevsky (1829; rich furnishings from St Petersburg).

To the west of the Neuer Garten, a large park in Potsdam, extends the Nauener Vorstadt. On the Pfingstberg is the Belvedere, built by Stüler and Hesse on the basis of sketches by Frederick William IV and Persius (1849-52, 1860-62).

The Marble Palace (Marmorpalais) in Potsdam, a neo-classical brick building (by Gontard, 1787-91) with a columned portico on the lake side, now houses the Potsdam Army Museum, a branch of the Army Museum in Dresden (founded 1971).