Caputh Things to Do

Not many people associate Berlin with densely foliaged forests and crystal clear lakes. Yet the city is richly endowed with both, particularly in the south-west, where several idyllic lakes - of which Wannsee is the largest - s... more

As well as being the largest forest within city limits, Grunewald is also an up-market residential area full of beautiful villas built by merchants, scientists and artists who flocked to this leafy district in the mid 19th cent... more

The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is one of Wannsee's most beautiful buildings. Constructed in 1836 on a hilltop overlooking the River Havel, the church is situated close to two other major attractions Blockhaus Nikolsko... more

The hunting lodge of Electoral Prince Joachim II was designed and built by royal architect Caspar Theiss in 1540. Hidden away in the dense Grunewald forest, the prince adored hunting and had other lodges built in Köpenick and P... more

Potsdamer Platz is apparently the biggest construction site in Europe. One of the smallest building sites has now been opened on the lawn in front of the Schinkel Museum near Berliner Dom. A red brick tower, part of Karl Friedr... more

Grunewaldturm is a red brick building which was built in the year 1897 to mark the hundreth birth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Out here you can now choose between a restaurant, a bistro, several terraces, the Kaisergarten a... more

Situated in the lovely Neuer Garten in Potsdam, Schloss Cecilienhof was built in 1913-17 as a residence for Crown Princess Cecilie. Although the Prussian royal family was deposed in 1918, Cecilienhof remained in the family's ha... more

For decades it bridged the River Havel without ever really connecting one side with the other. This was where West Berlin ended and East Germany started, the inpenetrable Iron Curtain drawn through the middle of the bridge. Dur... more

Friedrich Wilhelm II had a soft spot for romantic castles nestling peacefully in the middle of the forest. In 1784, he commissioned a small castle to be built on this tiny, forested island on the River Havel, in the 'ruin-style... more

The log cabin close to Pfaueninsel on the River Havel wasn't built by lumberjacks as you may have expected, but by a king. In 1819, King Friedrich Wilhelm III successfully married off his daughter to the Russian Tzar and when t... more