You start this route at the gas station Aral where you can drink a cup of coffee in Rasthof Grunewald before you leave. You drive to the Remembrance and Education Center House of the Wannsee Conference. As peaceful as the Wannsee Villa is, it is a place where one of the most gruesome decisions in history took place. During the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the Nazi summit initiated a plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people. To destroy. Senior Nazi and SS officers decided here on the fate of some 11 million European Jews. The villa has served as a museum since 1992. In a very comprehensive, interesting and well-structured exhibition you will learn more about the rise of Nazi Germany, hatred of Jews, the road to mass murder, the ghettos, deportations, forced labor and of course about the Holocaust and the Wannsee Conference itself. Shocking photos and documents from ghettos and concentration camps ensure that a visit to the Wannsee Villa leaves a heavy impression.
The road passes through the Düppeler forest, a paradise for hikers and mountain bikers.
The Glienicker Brücke, also known as the 'spy bridge', is a bridge over the southern arm of the Havel between the German cities of Potsdam and southwest Berlin. During the Cold War, the Glienicker Brücke was situated on the border of West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. In 1952 the bridge was closed to car traffic and on July 3, 1953 the bridge was completely closed to passenger traffic. Only military vehicles of the Allied occupation forces could pass the bridge. The bridge gained worldwide fame through the agent swap on February 11, 1986, in which Soviet dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and several other Eastern Bloc prisoners were exchanged for five secret agents imprisoned in the West. On November 10, 1989, a day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bridge was reopened for passenger traffic. Today some sort of border is still visible on the bridge. The green color of the steel construction is darker on the Berlin half than that on the Potsdammer half.

Potsdam, where the water landscape is accentuated with landscape parks and palaces, is actually a typical Havel city. In the center of Potsdam it sometimes seems as if you have ended up in an old-Dutch place like Giethoorn, so that this district is called the 'Holländisches Viertel' is no coincidence. The district dates back to the early 18th century, when Frederik Willem I brought large groups of craftsmen from Holland to Potsdam. To make the workers feel at home, and to attract more workers, the Dutch Johann Boumann built a Dutch neighborhood for them (1733-1742), entirely in Dutch red brick style. At the time, the popularity of the Dutch district was still somewhat lacking and the French and Prussians in particular settled in the district. The district consists of four blocks around the 'center' of the district, the Mittelstraße.
During the Cold War, the district was neglected. But at the end of the last century, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the district was restored for the first time and now looks its best. The Dutch royal family has invested heavily in the restoration.
About 10 meters further you come to the central Soviet war cemetery of the city of Potsdam. There are 383 tombs on the site, which differ visually according to whether the deceased belonged to a higher rank or were simple soldiers. Dates of death after 1945 refer either to the reburial, as the actual dates of death are often unknown, or to a later death as a result of the consequences of the war. The cemetery is dominated by an imposing 1948 cenotaph, which is supposed to exude strength, grandeur and eternity in the typical Soviet aesthetic of the time. It is a total of 14 meters high sandstone granite monument, consisting of a plinth topped with an obelisk. The obelisk is surrounded by four Red Army soldiers who represent the four branches of the Soviet army: a guard, a tank driver, a marine infantryman and a pilot.

On the outskirts of Potsdam is the beautiful Schloss Sanssouci, the summer palace of the Prussian King Fredrik the Great. He had the palace built in rococo style in 1747. Over the centuries, the palace was expanded several times with new pavilions, such as the Neues Palais, and refurbished. Sanssouci Palace is also sometimes referred to as the Versailles of Prussia. Highlights include the marble hall, which is inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, the opulent concert hall, the library and Antoine Watteau's paintings, the 'Fêtes Galantes'.
Surrounding the palace is a huge park of nearly 280 hectares, known for its many temples and statues. You will find a beautiful orangery, a Chinese tea house, Roman baths and the neoclassical Schloss Charlottenhof. The picture gallery here is Germany's oldest museum. It includes works by Caravaggio, Rubens and Van Dyck. The palace and gardens have been on the Unesco World Heritage List since 1990. It is certainly worth stopping here for a short visit to the park. If you want to visit the castle and the gardens thoroughly, then you should at least allow half a day to day for this.
The Potsdamer Stadtschloss was a Baroque city palace in the German city of Potsdam, which was built on an original city fortification. It burned down in 1945 after the bombing of Potsdam and although many facades were still standing at the time, it was blown up in 1959/1960 by order of the then communist rulers of the GDR. However, it was rebuilt, in the sense that the façade completely regained its Baroque appearance, but with a modern interior. Preparatory work started in 2006, including relocating the tram tracks and a bridge. At the beginning of 2010, the reconstruction was started, which was ready at the beginning of 2014 to house the parliament (Landtag) of the German state of Brandenburg.

Templiner See is approximately 5.8 kilometers long, with a maximum width of 1.2 kilometers and an area of 5.11 square kilometers. The navigable Havel River flows through the lake, entering at the north end next to the center of Potsdam and exiting at the southern end via a short canal to the Schwielowsee between Caputh and Geltow. The lake is traversed by two cable ferries. On the north side of the lake, the Hermannswerder peninsula juts out into the lake. About halfway up the lake is traversed by Berlin's Outer Ring Railway, using an embankment and a bridge. It was built in the 1950s to bypass West Berlin during the division of Germany.
A little further you pass the Großer Seddiner See, which is surrounded by forest, meadows and fields. There are several sandy beaches on the shores of the lake. With 218 hectares, the second largest lake in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park was formed by the Ice Age. As far back as the 1920s, it was a popular recreation destination for city dwellers due to its clear waters, reed-covered banks and sandy beaches.
The Jewish cemetery of Beelitz has been a protected architectural monument since 1985 and belonged to the synagogue district of Beelitz. There are 48 gravestones in six recognizable rows in the 925 m² cemetery at Straße des Aufbau 8. The oldest legible, a double gravestone, bears the date 1752 and 1764. The youngest stone dates from 1925. The cemetery, where the dead are the Jewish communities Trebbin, Luckenwalde and Jüterbog were buried, already existed in the first half of the 18th century "Am Großer Anger" before the then Berliner Tor.
In Zur Alten Brauerei in Beelitz you can possibly arrange a lunch stop.
The street village of Neuendorf with 257 inhabitants is located on the border of the Zauche plateau to the Baruther glacier valley. Its northeastern neighbor is the municipality of Borkheide, which extends in the Zauche from the Neuendorfer Heide to the Schäper Heide.
The capital Brück arrives after about three kilometers in a westerly direction at the B 246. In the immediate vicinity of Neuendorf, the settlement of Stromtal was built in the middle of the glacier valley in the 1920s. There is also a Saxon postal milestone here. This is a milestone that shows distances and durations to the nearest eighth of an hour. The design of the stones varies depending on the distance they represent, they can be in the shape of an obelisk, an old herm or a stele.
When you leave the village you drive along the military training area Lehnin on the one hand and along the landscape meadows of Belziger on the other. They form a vast, flat and now almost forest-free lowland landscape in the southwest of Brandenburg. The settlement-free area of approximately 7,600 hectares is part of the Hoher Fläming nature park and has been a nature reserve with a portion of approximately 4,500 hectares since 1 July 2005. The protection serves to maintain and restore rare flow-through swamps.

Kirchmöser is a district in the west of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. The industrial area reflects the German history of the past 100 years. The core of the district is located on a peninsula in the Havel lakes. A wreath of lakes surrounds the place: Wusterwitzer See, Wendsee, Plauer See and Möserscher See. The Heiliger See covers a considerable area on the peninsula itself.
The Seegartenbrücke connects the northern tip of the Kirchmöser peninsula across the Wendsee with Plaue. During the First World War, the powder factory was built in Kirchmöser West. In 1916/17 the so-called "Kruitbrug", also known as the "Werkamtsbrücke", was built to develop the industrial area. At the end of the Second World War, the bridge was blown up by German troops. An emergency bridge for pedestrians was built in 1947 and was in use until 1954. In the years 1951 to 1954, the destroyed powder bridge was repaired. In 2005 the old bridge was demolished and in the summer of 2006 a completely new, straight steel truss bridge with three spans was built, which also provides passage for large container ships.

Located on an isthmus between the Beetzsee, Plauersee and Breitlingsee is Brandenburg.
The St. Katharinenkirche in Brandenburg is an outstanding masterpiece of North German brick architecture. On the site of a fieldstone church that was demolished in 1395, the Katharinenkirche was built as the largest church in the city in 1401. Its dimensions are remarkable; the height of the roof ridge is 38 m and that of the tower 72.5 m. The outer walls are dominated by a rare wealth of openwork tracery rosettes and figurative decorations. Particularly impressive is the so-called Schöppenkapelle on the south side with its rich decorations. In 1582 the tower came loose from the west facade and collapsed. Ten years later, the reconstruction of the tower with the octagonal dome and the openwork lantern was completed.
The church is rich in interior decorations and important works of art. The large wing altar from 1474, the altar in the Schöppenkapelle, the octagonal bronze baptismal font from 1440 and the rich figure decorations in the pointed niches on the sides are worth a visit.
The Mühlentorturm was built in 1411. On the west side you can see the connection with the city wall, on the north side the door to the gate. The originally square base merged with corner spurs into the octagonal shaft. Above a small domed dungeon, it hides a vaulted guard room and two slit defensive floors. The medieval finds suggest that the pewter wreath and pyramid helmet were reconstructed on the model of the 15th century during the extensive renovation in the late 19th century. For traffic reasons, the last Baroque gate on the southeast side was demolished in 1839 and the base was reduced to an octagon in 1864, and the road was eventually moved to the west side of the tower. After war damage, the tower was repaired in 1945 and renovated in 2001-2003.
The Brandenburg Cathedral is located on an island between the Beetzsee and the Havel. The ensemble of cathedral, enclosure, curia and outbuildings still characterizes the cathedral island and the historic cityscape of Brandenburg-an-der-Havel. Here, King Otto I founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. Construction of the current cathedral began around the mid-12th century. The Gothic renovation was completed around the mid-15th century. The high-quality works of art come from all eras from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The Beetzsee consists of four different lakes. In between are canal connections, river-like bottoms and narrows, some of which are only a few meters wide. Accordingly, the Beetzsee extends for a total of 22 kilometers in a varied riparian landscape consisting of floodplains, moors, fields and small forests.
In the center of Nauen, Altstadt Café und Restaurant Nickel offers you the opportunity to take a break with a cup of coffee, a soft drink, pastry or ice cream.
After a short stop, the route continues along the Krämer. This is a forest area of about 60 km² that covers the southwestern part of the Glien countryside. "Glien" comes from Slavic and means loam or clay. The higher parts in this area lie on the edge of the Ländchen Glien. The lowest parts are the meadows that still belong to the Havelländisches Luch.
Just before the end of the ride, you can drive to the Grünewaldtur. This is a lookout tower on the Karlsberg in Berlin's Grunewald district. The viewing platform offers a view over the Havel at a height of 36 meters. In 1897 it was decided to erect a monument to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm I, who died in 1888. In the summer of 1897, the trees on the top of the Karlsberg were cleared for construction and the top itself was razed to the ground. The actual construction began in October of the same year. Construction was completed on March 22, 1899, and the tower was inaugurated on June 9, 1899.