Detached villas on long lakeside plots along the Griebnitzsee, with the palace park at the colony's edge.
What Babelsberg looks like
The colony follows the lake from to the palace park. Lakeside plots are 20 to 25 metres wide and 80 to 110 metres deep. Houses sit at right angles to the road with their long sides turned to the southeast, and most are two storeys. Street trees line the roads.
at Karl-Marx-Straße 3 is a two-storey light plaster house built in 1874, with a bay window and an iron balcony. is a white villa with crenellations and a corner tower. Red brick trim surrounds its windows, and a date of 1895 is set into the street front. is a pale yellow villa with classical columns, behind an iron gate between piers.
Walls are plaster or brick, and some have red brick trim around the openings. Several villas sit behind hedges or iron fences, and the pale green villa at has a covered porch among its trees.
stands in its park at the far end of the colony. The English Gothic palace has round towers and battlements above a grass slope. An aerial view of the park shows wooded lawns and winding paths, with a wide lake beyond the trees.
Shot in Babelsberg
Einfach mal was Schönes, the 2022 film directed by Karoline Herfurth, shot scenes at Schloss Babelsberg. The Netflix series Kleo used the of the University of Potsdam as one of its locations for season two.
Einfach mal was Schönes, 2022
Schloss Babelsberg
The scenes were shot at the palace itself, the English Gothic building in . It stands above a grass slope, with round towers and battlements.
What Babelsberg can double for
Lichterfelde in Berlin, Germany
Gustav Lilienthal built many houses in Lichterfelde, among them castle-style villas in a neo-Tudor manner with neo-Gothic elements. Lilienthal also designed the crenellated house at Karl-Marx-Straße 66, so it is the nearest match. Keep the lake out of the frame and shoot tight on one house and its garden, because open water on screen places the shot at Griebnitzsee. Try searching neo-Gothic villas garden now.
Westend in Berlin, Germany
Westend's detached villas were mostly planned on garden plots of about 800 square metres. The lakeside plots here are 20 to 25 metres wide and 80 to 110 metres deep. Together that is roughly 1,600 to 2,750 square metres. Tight shots on one villa and its garden hold the illusion, because a wide frame shows the smaller plots. Try searching detached villas garden plots now.
