Attractions and Places To See around Griebnitzsee - Top 20

Beer garden Sacrow has good food

The narrow, L-shaped Griebnitzsee lies in a glacial trough and is around three kilometers long. It borders the Berlin district of Wannsee to the north and the Potsdam district of Babelsberg to the south. There, at the southernmost point of the lake, is the Griebnitzsee train station at the eastern end of Neubabelsberg.

The 2.5 kilometers on this side of the Griebnitzsee are, in my opinion, the most beautiful on the lake. However, the well-developed path does not always lead directly along the shore. This means that the lake is not always easy to see, especially in summer when there is a lot of vegetation. 😉 However, the path is very shady. 👍 During my hike on June 18, 2024, there was not a single bench on this section. Which is of course a shame. 😞

Unfortunately it is currently closed, here you can get delicious Lübzer on tap.

Station 1931 The station was built in 1874 on the Berlin-Potsdam Railway for the development of the residential area of Neubabelsberg; hence its original name, Neubabelsberg. It opened on June 1 of the same year. The first station building was a reconstructed wooden pavilion by Kyllmann & Heyden, which had been erected the previous year as the German House at the Vienna World Exhibition. The station building, which still stands today, was designed by Günter Lüttich in 1931. On April 1, 1938, the station was renamed Babelsberg-Ufastadt due to its proximity to the ever-expanding Ufa film complex.[1] At the end of World War II, the Teltow Canal Bridge near Kohlhasenbrück was blown up, resulting in the suspension of S-Bahn service between Zehlendorf and Babelsberg-Ufastadt from April 1945 to June 15, 1948.[2]

Border station The station was renamed Griebnitzsee in 1949. From 1952, Griebnitzsee served as a control station. From 1961 to 1989, the station was closed to local traffic, and until 1990 it served as a border station and border crossing point (GÜSt, passenger traffic) of the GDR. Boarding and disembarking at Griebnitzsee station was prohibited for transit traffic through the GDR to and from West Berlin. Interzonal traffic between West and East Germany was carried out via the Berlin Stadtbahn. Later, interzonal trains were routed via the Berlin Outer Ring (including the Aachen–Potsdam–Görlitz and Munich–Leipzig–Potsdam–Rostock train pairs), thus serving exclusively for transit traffic between West Berlin (Berlin-Wannsee, Zoologischer Garten, Friedrichstraße) and West Germany from/to Schwanheide/Büchen (Hamburg, Northern Germany) until 1976 Marienborn/Helmstedt (Hanover, West Germany) Gerstungen/Bebra (Hesse, Frankfurt am Main, Saarbrücken) Probstzella/Ludwigsstadt (Southern Germany)

Until 1949 The station was built in 1874 on the Berlin-Potsdam Railway to serve the Neubabelsberg residential area; hence its original name, Neubabelsberg. It opened on June 1 of the same year. The first station building was a reconstructed wooden pavilion by Kyllmann & Heyden, which had been erected the previous year as the German House at the Vienna World's Fair. The station building, which still stands today, was designed by Günter Lüttich in 1931. On April 1, 1938, the station was renamed Babelsberg-Ufastadt due to its proximity to the ever-expanding Ufa film complex. At the end of the Second World War, the Teltow Canal Bridge near Kohlhasenbrück was blown up, resulting in the S-Bahn service between Zehlendorf and Babelsberg-Ufastadt being suspended from April 1945 to June 15, 1948.

The Potsdam Griebnitzsee train station is a regional and S-Bahn station on the Berlin–Magdeburg railway line and the Wannsee Railway. It is located in the extreme east of Potsdam-Babelsberg, northeast of the media city Babelsberg and south of Lake Griebnitz. During the division of Germany, it served as a border station for transit traffic to West Berlin. The station is now served by the S-Bahn line S7 and the regional trains RB 20, RB 22 and RB 23.