Babelsberg is the largest quarter of Potsdam, the capital city of the German state of Brandenburg. The neighbourhood is named after a small hill on the Havel river. It is the location of Babelsberg Palace and Park, part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as Babelsberg Studio, a historical centre of the German film industry and the first large-scale movie studio in the world.
Babelsberg Palace on the Havel river
Babelsberg Movie Studios, the first large-scale film studio in the world (founded 1912) and the forerunner to Hollywood. It still produces global blockbusters every year.
Mansion colony Neubabelsberg: Truman-Villa
Babelsberg Palace, about 1900
Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some 25 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin.
Image: 2018 08 10 DE Potsdam, Havel, Potsdamer Stadtschloss, Charlottenhof 05609390 (49952695592)
Image: Alte Rathaus Potsdam November 2013
Image: Brandenburg Gate in Potsdam
Image: Potsdam Neues Palais 1717
