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Grunewald | |
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 Mansions at Hundekehlsee | |
Location of Grunewald in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Berlin
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| Coordinates:52°29′00″N13°16′00″E / 52.48333°N 13.26667°E /52.48333; 13.26667 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
| Founded | 1880 |
| Area | |
• Total | 22.3 km2 (8.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 11,213 |
| • Density | 503/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 14193 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
Grunewald (German:[ˈɡʁuːnəˌvalt]ⓘ) is a locality within theBerlinborough ofCharlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Until2001 administrative reform it was part of the former district ofWilmersdorf.
Grunewald forest lies partly within the locality and is Berlin's largest green area. Next toLichterfelde West,Dahlem andWestend, it is part of the affluent Berlin "Villenbogen", a row of suburbs completely made up of 19th century mansions.
The locality is situated in the western side of the city and is separated fromSpandau by the riverHavel. It borders with the localities ofWestend,Halensee,Schmargendorf,Wilhelmstadt,Gatow (both in Spandau district),Nikolassee,Zehlendorf andDahlem (all three inSteglitz-Zehlendorf district). The Grunewald forest is 10 km away fromBerlin-Mitte.
The name derives from the Grunewald hunting lodge of 1543, the oldest preserved castle in Berlin, which is, however, officially located within the adjacentDahlem locality. It was erected in an EarlyRenaissance style by order ofElector Joachim II Hector of Brandenburg and namedZum Gruenen Wald, theumlaut spelt with a following "e" instead of adiacritic as depicted above the main entrance. Acorduroy road leading from the BerlinStadtschloss to the lodge was laid out, which later would be known as theKurfürstendamm boulevard.
The neighbourhood developed out of a so-called "mansion colony" at the western end of the Kurfürstendamm. Promoted byOtto von Bismarck, Grunewald was found to be a preferred residential area from the 1880s onward. Grunewald was incorporated intoGreater Berlin in 1920. Today, the social structure of Grunewald is still influenced by these origins. TheRot-Weiss Tennis Club, home of theWTA TourGerman Open, has been located in the district since 1897.
On 24 June 1922 Foreign Minister of GermanyWalther Rathenau was assassinated by ultra-nationalist radicals of theOrganisation Consul in a curve of the main street calledKoenigsallee. A memorial stone marks the scene of the crime.
Since 1981 the Grunewald district is the home of theInstitute for Advanced Study, Berlin. It also houses the embassies ofAfghanistan,Azerbaijan,Qatar,Kuwait,Laos,North Macedonia,Poland andSerbia.
Within the Grunewald forest lies the artificialTeufelsberg hill, once a listening station of the USNational Security Agency. On the shore of the Havel, theGrunewaldturm, built byFranz Heinrich Schwechten in 1898, offers views over theHavelland region.
Between October 1941 and February 1945 more than 50,000 Jews were deported by GermanNazis to extermination camps from the Grunewald freight railway station and murdered. Memorials from the district ofCharlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and theDeutsche Bahn ("Gleis 17") commemorate this spot in Grunewald's history. The area is accessible by theBerlin-Grunewald station.
Grunewald railway station is served by the S7 line of theBerlin S-Bahn, which connects the locality toBerlin Mitte,Ahrensfelde andPotsdam.
One of Germany's busiest freeways, theAVUSAutobahn, runs through the locality and was used as a marathon and bike path during the1936 Summer Olympics.
Theforest of Grunewald, is located mainly in the quarter but also inNikolassee,Zehlendorf,Dahlem andWestend is, with an area of 3,000 ha, the largest green area in the city of Berlin.[2]
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 Lichtenberg (11) | |
 Marzahn-Hellersdorf (10) | |
 Mitte (1) | |
 Neukölln (8) | |
 Pankow (3) | |
 Reinickendorf (12) | |
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 Steglitz-Zehlendorf (6) | |
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