sorry, steve w dot com. ah hi there, i'm here. well and once again i want her with my little green electric beetle. this time i'm exploring the state of brandenburg just outside of berlin. i'll be visiting pot done to check out sansa c palace and brave out for some magnificent nature. and my colleague lucas steger will be exploring some last places for you as well. with san for the palace in potsdam is thought to be one of the most useful policies in

the whole of europe. so i can't wait to check it out. it's time to leave your worries behind and step into the care free realm of nature, art philosophy because that's exactly what this prussian palace was built more than welcome to son. so see, sense to see was built in the mid 18th century by the prussian king free trade. the 2nd also called frederick the great. it was his summer palace, his prussian birth side. here, frederick wanted to pursue his hobbies undisturbed, and escaped. the pomp and ceremony of the royal court. sunset. see is french and literally translates into it without concerns or without

worries. so that's exactly what my motto today is going to be quick to, to make your day as carefree as king. critics would have wanted it to be, pick your ticket for the pilot in advance online to avoid the long keys. the entry into the gardens is free and that's where i am starting. my term fantasy is so much more than the palace itself. the park is made up of over 300 heck chairs of beautiful terraces, vineyards and in 1990. both the gardens and the palace itself were added to the next world heritage lin, this magnificent fountain is a feature that was also copied from her side. it's decorated with sculptures of roman gods, and venus is particularly special. she was actually gifted by the van owner of versailles, the french king louis the 15th of this one. now is a copy. the original is at berlin's buddha museum. let's go in,

since we're filming, we get the whole place to ourselves. and i even get a private tour. i went to learn more about the famous prussian king and the splendid home he built here. so becket, morgan, of which has kindly agreed to show me around fair, who was king frederick the 2nd into british line. frederick was oppression kings. actually the prussian king, he was the one who led the prussian into lots of wars of conquest. he loves his people and his country prussia. a give tart on battle, why did you choose this location to build census about your own? it's on a small hill and he had his burial place, his tomb prepared on this hill early on in his reign. and at some point he thought, what a beautiful hill it would be, a pity to just be buried here. so he had a palace built right at the top, and he said, it's just for me. it's my dream palace,

my san sushi. i want to be here without any worries. mine salsa seems worthy of. i'm only sorry. oh ah, continue as you can see into the library through the window else. he picked visitors aren't allowed in to what king frederick consider to be his holy room. but you can still see the beauty of the wood panels domed library by peking, through the window. and this is where the king lived and worked, writing poetry and philosophical text. he rarely slept more than 4 hours a night. such was the prussian way. this is the that's the arm chaff. frederick the great di didn't. it's actually the original was king for it. it was also buried here, and i'm going to visit his grave and i brought a rather unusual souvenir to place on top of it. and it seems,

i'm not the only one. so why are people laying potatoes on the king's grave? well before king friedrich potatoes weren't really eaten in germany, actually they were more use just for decoration, but came for the past in order to increase potato crops in the country, following bad harvests and subsequent famines. according to legend, he tricks local farmers into plunging more of the so called apple of the earth by posting soldiers around the potato fields to protect them. it worked highly valued goods, taste even better. so here we are a token for the potato, okay? ah census iep house is definitely the main event, but there is another much bigger palace by me that we're going to go look at. no,

because king friedrich needed more than one then you palace was built at the end of precious 7 years war. in the 17 sixty's, king free drink thought to demonstrate the power and glory of prussia and wanted to show off the strings of its finances. he himself rarely stayed in the castle. it was mainly forget, let go check. the new palace has around 300 green all dec type an excessive splendor of marble, stone and gills. can you believe the whole palace only took 6 years to build 2 main pets? if you call our marble room extends over 2 floors, the fresco and the ceiling. here is one of the largest in europe. ah, another must be room in the garage to halt this $600.00 tons structure is encrusted with over $24000.00 shells and semi precious stones,

me paying for with perform context for his guests. here he was a passionate flute player and compose 120. as me so obviously from the piano, we can see that this was a real music room. but if you carefully their instruments embedded into the ceiling that used to be real instruments. and they're now gilded in real gold. all of the 3600 bricks in the library are written in french. since that was the language frederick preferred over germany. he often had the same set to fix in all of his several capital so that wherever he was, he had access to all of them in i could spend hours walking around if you to, for guidance here, especially in the golden evening light. i

use my beetle and i are taking a little break from driving so that my colleague look steak. i can take a look around you be exploring some of random bark, so called last places. the ah, ah, an old military barracks in eastern germany. places like this are dark, but fast at 80. right now i am 18 meters underground. there is only concrete around me. it's a little spooky here. it's a so called last place in brenda virg, close to berlin. but let's start above ground,

reinstall. 20 kilometers south of berlin, until shortly after the fall of the wall, this was the barracks of the former soviet army. since its departure in 1994, the area has been neglected. here i meet around 30 amateur photographers looking for special subjects. after a short briefing, everyone can go off on their own photo tours such as this are regularly offered by your berlin operator and to pursue you have to follow certain rules such as where you can and can't go. we create barriers, unsecure. the location beforehand, i give a floor, might collapse. we don't go in there, i don't. and then we block it off. how much mol, cutten? it doesn't look so bad on the photos. you just have to stick to. that was my, that i've gotten hold of. you in front of the main building stands, a monument to lenin, the leader of the october revolution in russia. in 1917. it is set to be the last one left in germany.

i'm now inside the main building, the so called officers house. and i am obviously all alone here right now. it smells musty decades old dust tanks in the air. ah, on the upper floor i discover the remains of a radio studio. i wonder what was recorded here in the past. ah i venture further up into the attic. i feel a little queasy up here, but i'm reward it. well. i can't believe it is an old newspaper. it's from ah 1986.

this newspaper is older than me. ah. it's hayton for bolton. no trespassing. well, as a participant of the tour, of course i'm allowed in tombstone was already a military area in the 19th century. in 1910 and imperial military training area was built for the van german empire. later under hitler, the high command of the german army had its headquarters here. from 1953 to 1994 green stove was a garrison town for the so called group of soviet armed forces. germany, up to 75000 military personnel lived here with their families. there were schools, kindergarten shops, as well as sports and cultural facilities. you have to imagine this used to be a theater. there was a lot going on here and now it's just silence. mm

hm. finally, we visit the outdoor pool. almost 30 years of stan. still. they have cast a strange spell over the sight. ah. also it roots door about 2 kilometers away. i joined another tour. the roots of tripling was the central intelligence bunker of the german army high command. let's take a closer look. done midland, sensitively, please. we don't want to hear it bang o we go down 3 floors, a total of 18 meters under ground. the bunker has

a constant temperature of 10 degrees celsius. it was the heart of military communications during world war 2. later, the soviet army used it for its own communications. in 1939, only 2 years after it was built, the bunker went into operation. equipped with the latest technology of the time. last, what was it? you must think of it like this. it, it was loud and yet it clicked. it clacked. there was an incredible amount of technology in here. this is also where all the remote weddings took place. ups and at the end of the war, soldiers no longer had leave forgotten. the soldiers sat in the field and the

connection was made from that the registry office where the bride was. this was how people said yesterday, each other. the registrar documented it and then they were married. if the woman was pregnant and she received a small morbid gift many steel helmet, jessica sank many star ha. ah, that was pretty impressive. and now there's another lost place waiting for me also here and brandenburg. let's go, ah ah, well come to the billet senatorial the former senatorial and billets used to be one of the largest hospital complexes

in the berlin area. up to 1200 patients could be admitted. most of them suffering from tuberculosis. opened in 19 o 2. this was a military hospital during world war one and world war 2, then a military hospital for the soviet army. a treat shop path 700 meters long and up to 23 meters high. now leads through part of the site i take a look at that. there are trees on top of the building. you could say nature is taking back the building this is the building i'm about to enter. it is the so called i've been house,

had burned down at the end of world war 2, and has stood empty and in ruins. ever since the house is inspired artists and served as a set for films. the open house had room for around 270 patients. some of the relics illustrate the function of the rooms at that time such as the stage table in the former dining room. a lot has changed already, but they're still around the lost places. and brandon burke, the question is for how much longer?

so i recommend you to visit them as soon as possible before there is nothing more to see of this exciting and spooky path. whether in photographs or in my memory, the impressions i take away from these last places will stay with me for a long time. ah, now i'm in play by this beautiful region is only an hour's drive sides of grilling . my 1st stop is this small kind of lube and now the heart of fish play by it. i started my trip at the harper. this is where tours was typically about votes begin. i'll take a ride in one of them later in my travel with it. but 1st i went to

paddle through sh play vide, because those are the kind of videos that i always see from friends. it looks like so much fun. and then i can enjoy the peace and quiet by myself. mm. you can read, had a book, and almost every time a one see kayak costs 24 year as a date and a 2 seater. 32 euros. mm hm. hi. how's it going? the weather's perfect. wonderful, i'm given some information about the area. martin rich dairy shows me a nice for the ends in later, which is said to be one of the most beautiful villages in which bay badge, and then were off with see how this goes. ah, at 1st it's not so easy ah,

more with my suit and find my rhythm ah ah ah ah, so peaceful here right. think this is going to be like this flavor is europe's largest lagoon landscape with 350 canals and waterways. the water comes from the rivers play, and bud means forest. hence, the name which play about large parts of the area are a unesco designated biosphere reserve. there are 500 kilometer is worth of canals and waterways here. but i don't think i manage all

of them today. ah, according to experts fish baby was formed during the last ice age when the glaciers mouth hit. and i'm approaching my destination, the village of leader with right now, i just have to make it to shore without getting wet. oh no as easy as a licksey made here and later there's an open air museum where you can learn a lot about the source as slavic ethnic minority who've lived in this play by it

for centuries. i. oh, nice to meet you. i'm hannah. delicacy, the de chuckner m m. mister galani stuff. cuba yoga, i'll read. william served dick michal chisher the well okay, i'm going to assume that was sorry. yeah, that was a lower serbian, and i'm very thankful that you're here and i'm i'm giving you brett and some salt. oh, thank you. digest it. we're yes. do i just dip it? yes. is this traditional that? yes, that's traditional m yes . yeah, that's really good. i've never had bread myself with the saskia to guy leads me through the museum village here. you can explore sr b in houses from earlier centuries so well come to 1840. wow. it's really like stepping into

a totally different world. yes it is. that is, this is the only room in the whole house, and it's a room for living, sleeping, eating, everything happened here. and how many people would live up to 15 people. ah, yeah. wow. mm. but i have to say this is also a very beautiful dress that you have on. thank you. ha, ha ha. saskia is proud to be sar be and she inherited the language and traditions from her parents and grandparents and no passes them on to her children . so hired to m this or be in people keep their culture alive nowadays. i think a key piece is to contain and to live at the which in day care and, and schooled some children will also speak. so i'll be in and will learn it. now

another challenge awaits me. step one, complete is really old skill. in the museum village leader. you can also try to do some things yourself, like washing clothes by hand, just like in the old days. ah, would you think? am i doing this right with her? oh no, no. okay, she stains on the display, right is famous not only for its beads for landscape, but also for the delicious playback pickles they can be found everywhere in every shape and flavor. yoga the spicy cucumber is the most common, but the honey cucumber is a little milder. lots of people like the sour one which is also called the pickled

cucumber. and this here is the horseradish mustard cucumber which is really spicy, but also very tasty. i'd like to try this by see pick ho catherine, and of course the classic cotton original. all right, rosa. but they look, they even have a pickle ride layer, so beer and lemonade, with a cute little picture of a pickle on it, and pico schnapps. can you imagine i to send i'm tears 1st time trying this, brave out pico. very good news here. and book there is also a large harbor which is a good starting point. first play bite tour. and now since i've seen so many people do it, i'm going to do the typical tourist thing and take a trip in the classic spray bouts barge in on weekdays it's

not so busy, but on the weekend you should definitely pick your barge, turn advanced. ah, well, i've been wanting to visit brave out for so long and it definitely didn't disappoint the landscape here is really like something out of a fairy tale. ah, sansa feed the loft places and here pay by the state of brandenburg. exactly has a variety of places to offer. i hope you enjoyed the trip as much as i did and maybe you'll get the chance to explore some of these places too, especially since they're all so close to violet phoenix i ah

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