Klein Glienicker Kapelle

Resettled in 1750 under Frederick the Great , it retains its village character to this day. Embedded in the enchanting cultural landscape between the Babelsberger and Glienicker Park, near the water, the entire place is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The first customer of Klein-Glienicke is the land register of Emperor Charles IV from 1375. Neubabelsberg received.

Good transport links to Berlin by means of a country road via Kohlhasenbrück or from 1874 with the »Wannseebahn« via Neubabelsberg station soon made the place a preferred place of residence for wealthy Berliners. In 1938, Neubabelsberg again merged into the immediately adjacent industrial city of Nowawes, which was henceforth called »Babelsberg«, but was incorporated into Potsdam the following year. For centuries, the evangelical inhabitants of Klein-Glienicke had to go on an extended Sunday walk to attend the service in the church in the neighboring village of Stolpe, which was built in 1469 . The parish promenade of Neubabelsberg was made up of the Sacrow Church, the Church of St. Peter and Paul on Nikolskoe, and the Klein-Glienicke chapel.

Due to the construction of the wall, the last pastor, Joachim Strauss , was no longer able to visit the part of his congregation in West Berlin. The Heilandskirche Sacrow belongs today to the Potsdam Evangelical Pentecostal Church, the Klein-Glienicke Chapel to the Evangelical Church Parish of Babelsberg and the Church of St. Peter and Paul to the Berlin-Zehlendorf Church District. As soon as winter came and the snow came with it, it was almost impossible for the Klein-Glienickers to get to the church because they were too poor to be able to afford horses or even sledges. He was able to win over Prince Carl, his daughter, Princess Marie, and son, Prince Leopold.

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