Altes Rathaus
The Alte Rathaus is a Palladian building in the Old Market Square in Potsdam. It was built for Frederick the Great between 1753 and 1755 to designs by Johann Boumann and Carl Ludwig Hildebrandt.- Type: Town hall
- Description: building in Potsdam, Germany
- Also known as: “Kulturhaus ‘Hans Marchwitza’”, “Old Townhall, Potsdam”, and “Oude raadhuis (Potsdam)”
- Address: Am Alten Markt 9, Potsdam, 14467
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Museum Barberini and Potsdam Museum.
Museum Barberini
Museum
The Museum Barberini is an art museum in the reconstructed Palast Barberini in Potsdam, which opened in 2017. Its exhibitions range from the so-called Old Masters to contemporary art, with an emphasis on impressionist painting.
St. Nicholas Church, Potsdam
Church
St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam is a Lutheran church under the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia of the Evangelical Church in Germany on the Old Market Square in Potsdam, Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dutch Quarter and Zentrum Ost.
Dutch Quarter
Locality
The Dutch Quarter is a neighborhood in Potsdam, Germany, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated. It was built from 1733 to 1740 and designed by Jan Bouman following the order of Frederick William I of Prussia, who invited talented Dutch craftsmen to settle there.
Alexandrowka
Locality
The Russian colony of Alexandrowka is located north of downtown Potsdam. It was built in 1826-1827 by King Frederick William III of Prussia for the last twelve Russian singers in a choir that had previously 62 members.
Altes Rathaus
- Categories: house of culture, museum building, building, public building, and government building
- Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.39598° or 52° 23′ 46″ north
Longitude
13.06198° or 13° 3′ 43″ east
Established
1755
Levels
3
Height
20 metres (66 feet)
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
9F4M93W6+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhall
OpenStreetMap feature
building=civic
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Altes Rathaus” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Старо кметство (Потсдам)”
- Bulgarian: “Старо кметство”
- Chinese: “波茨坦博物館”
- Dutch: “Oude raadhuis van Potsdam”
- Dutch: “Oude raadhuis”
- Finnish: “Potsdamin vanha raatihuone”
- Georgian: “პოტსდამის თვითმმართველობის ძველი შენობა”
- German: “Altes Rathaus”
- Italian: “Altes Rathaus”
- Russian: “Старая ратуша в Потсдаме”
- Russian: “Старая ратуша”
- Swedish: “Gamla rådhuset, Potsdam”
- “Altes Rathaus”
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Highlights: Erweitungsbau Kulturhaus and Knobelsdorffhaus.
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