Ugh, it is near Berlin and contains one of the most amazing buildings in germany….. wonders if there is some misunderstood joke in there…..
No. There is no Joke.
There is a second Potsdam.
It actually lies in he USA, close to the Canadian border. I have seen it via Google Maps.
And Goole Mps showed it to me when I was using it to show me Potsdam. But I use the English-language version of Google/Google Maps since some time ago (I don't even remember why and how anymore), and this version of Google Maps usually centers its search on the U.S. .
Try this in Google Maps : Potsdam, NY 13676
Rome is also there, and Alexandria.
Zooming out more, I even find : Montpellier, Gloucester, Belfast, Pompey, Sidney, Delhi, Rocester, Brighton ... There are many "old names" in the state of Nww York, it seems to me.
There are quite a lot of "second towns" in the U.S. ! I have seen Cornwall not far away from U.S. Potsdam, too.
Brunswick is located several times in the U.S. . Its name is a direct rendering/translation of German Braunschweig.