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Friedenau | |
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 Town hall | |
Location of Friedenau in Tempelhof-Schöneberg and Berlin  | |
  Friedenau  Friedenau | |
| Coordinates:52°28′20″N13°19′47″E / 52.47222°N 13.32972°E /52.47222; 13.32972 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Tempelhof-Schöneberg |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.65 km2 (0.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 28,983 |
| • Density | 18,000/km2 (45,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 12159, 12161 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
Friedenau (German:[ˌfriːdə'naʊ̯]ⓘ) is a locality (Ortsteil) within theborough (Bezirk) ofTempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany. Relatively small by area, its population density was the highest in the city.[2]
Friedenau is part of the southwestern suburbs, right at the border with the inner citySchöneberg district, separated by theBerlin Ringbahn and theBAB 100 motorway (Stadtring). It borders theWilmersdorf locality to the west andSteglitz to the south.
The streets and squares are laid out according to a geometricurban design with an almost complete assembly ofGründerzeit buildings, which survived thebombing of Berlin in World War II.
The characteristic feature of Friedenau itsCarstenn layout, named after urban developer Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carsten. This symmetrical layout consists of anavenue dividing a circular road, which is demarcated by fourtown squares.
Some streets in Friedenau were named after rivers inAlsace-Lorraine to commemorate the annexation of this region into theGerman Empire.
The majority of Friedenau's buildings date to the early 20th century. Therefore, the architectural styles are almost uniform. 185 buildings are protected ascultural heritage sites.
More recent development does not necessarily match the surrounding cityscape, since the reconstruction efforts afterWorld War II, especially in the earlier years, gave little consideration to the preservation of architectural uniformity.
In 1871 it was founded as an affluentcommuter town on the estates of the former Deutsch-Wilmersdorf manor. The German nameFriedenau, referring toFrieden (peace) and the suffix-au meaningfloodplains (hence "floodplain of peace"), was proposed by Hedwig Hähnel, wife of the architect Hermann Hähnel, in memory of the 1871Peace of Frankfurt, which ended theFranco-Prussian War. It was adopted by Mr. Hähnel, then the director of theLanderwerb- und Bauverein auf Actien (inc.), which developed the real estate in the area.[3] When in 1874 the area constituted as an independent municipality within theProvince of Brandenburg, the denotation had already been established and became the official municipal name.
Friedenau opened its own non-denominational municipal cemetery, today'sStädtischer Friedhof III, which soon grew too small. So in 1909 Friedenau bought a tract of land in Güterfelde (today a component ofStahnsdorf) as additional graveyard, with the first burial taking place in 1913. Friedenau's municipal construction councillor Hans Altmann designed for the cemetery a mourning chapel, an office, a gardener's house, a flower shop, benches and a fountain as well as a net of paths replicating the streets net in Friedenau. Since June 1913 the cemetery was accessible via the so-called cemetery train line ending atStahnsdorf station.
Friedenau joined with the town ofSchöneberg in 1920 – under the latter's name – as the former 11th administrative borough ofGreater Berlin. In the short time from 29 April to 30 June 1945, when theRed Army occupied all Berlin, it was a borough in its own right, until it was reunified with Schöneberg as one borough within the American Sector ofWest Berlin.
The Güterfelde cemetery, since 1920 calledForest Cemetery of Schöneberg was operated since 1935 by Berlin'sBorough of Wilmersdorf, calledWilmersdorf Forest Cemetery Güterfelde (German:Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde). After 1945 the cemetery happened to be in theSoviet Zone of Occupation and later in theGerman Democratic Republic (East Germany), thus with the increasing Eastern interdiction of West Berlin the cemetery grew inaccessible for the Friedenauers.
On 5 April 1986 a bomb exploded at theLa Belle discothèque in a former cinema on Hauptstraße 78, killing a Turkish woman and two U.S. servicemen and injuring numerous people. A plaque marks the site.
Friedenau has always been home to creative artists, especially of authors. Prominent residents include:
Friedenau has access to theBerlin U-Bahn network atInnsbrucker Platz station (U4) as well as atBundesplatz,Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz andWalther-Schreiber-Platz (U9).S-Bahn service is available at the Bundesplatz and Innsbrucker Platz stations of theRingbahn. The nearbyFriedenau station of theS1 line is actually situated in neighbouringSchöneberg.
The locality can also be reached viaBundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) atWexstraße andInnsbrucker Platz junctions and byBundesautobahn 103 (Westtangente), alsoBundesstraße 1, atSaarstraße.
 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (4) | |
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 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2) | |
 Lichtenberg (11) | |
 Marzahn-Hellersdorf (10) | |
 Mitte (1) | |
 Neukölln (8) | |
 Pankow (3) | |
 Reinickendorf (12) | |
 Spandau (5) | |
 Steglitz-Zehlendorf (6) | |
 Tempelhof-Schöneberg (7) | |
 Treptow-Köpenick (9) | |
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