Berlin-Steglitz Travel Guide
A detailed destination guide for your next Germany vacation
Berlin-Steglitz Overview
The neighborhood of Steglitz is located in southwestern Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide) within minutes of any destination or event in Germany’s capital. Take a cruise on the Spree river, hear the world-famous Berlin Philharmonic, or attend the famous Berlinale film festival, which will celebrate its 60th anniversary from February 11-21, 2010. There is no end to what you can do in Berlin! Our featured 2-bedroom vacation apartment was built in 1905 and completely renovated in 2008.
Steglitz is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in the south-west of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The locality also includes the neighborhood of Südende.
Steglitz is served by the Berlin S-Bahn line S1 at the stations Feuerbachstraße and Rathaus Steglitz as well as by the S25 at Südende. U-Bahn connection to the inner city is provided by the U9 line with the stations Walther-Schreiber-Platz, Schloßstraße and Rathaus Steglitz.
Where to stay in Berlin-Steglitz?
Check out our selection of hand-selected and quality Berlin-Steglitz vacation rentals and holiday apartments.
Things to See
- Gutshaus Steglitz (Steglitz Manor), a Neoclassical building designed by David Gilly in 1801, which since 1921 housed the small Schlossparktheater, one of the former Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide) state theatres, that nevertheless finally closed in 2006
- The Schlossstrasse, the second largest shopping area in Berlin after Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße, including Forum Steglitz, one of Germany's first shopping malls opened in 1970
- Neo-Gothic Steglitz town hall, erected in 1898
- Lutheran Matthäuskirche, built in 1880
- Catholic Rosary church from 1900, which received the title of a basilica in 1950
- The notorious Steglitzer Kreisel, a 119 m (390 ft) highrise erected between 1968 and 1980. Before the construction was finished the developing company became insolvent in 1974, leaving a ruin in Steglitz' centre until the works were resumed in 1977. To avoid further vacancy the borough's administration moved in, but had to leave the building in 2007 due to a contamination with asbestos. The building includes the Berlin U-Bahn station Rathaus Steglitz, a bus station and a multi-storey car park
- The Bierpinsel ("Beer Brush"), a tavern in a tower on Schlossstraße with an interesting architectural style built in 1976
- Villenkolonie Lichterfelde West, historical district of 19th century mansion houses and cobbled streets in the adjacent Lichterfelde district
- Titania-Palast, a large cinema erected in 1928 in New Objectivity style. On May 26, 1945 it was the site of the first concert of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. On June 6, 1951 it saw the opening ceremony of the first Berlin International Film Festival
- The Fichtenberg hill, highest point in Steglitz, 68 m (223 ft).
- The Grundschule am Insulaner is an elementary and middle school near Südende.
[ source: wikipedia ]
Maps and Driving Directions to Berlin-Steglitz
Steglitz
[ source: Flickr]
Related Sites
We collected some useful links related to Berlin-Steglitz. If you know a few more sites not listed here, or also know some insider tips or point of interests for this destination? Please share and submit your Germany travel tip. If approved it will be shown on this page!
- Homepage of Berlin-Steglitz: Berlin-Steglitz (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Berlin-Steglitz
- Wikipedia: Berlin-Steglitz
- Gutshaus Steglitz
- Schlossstrasse
- Evangelischen Matthäus
- Steglitzer Kreisel
- Bierpinsel
- Botanical Garden in Berlin
- Official city homepage
- Wikitravel: Berlin-Steglitz
- Brucke Museum
More about the History of Berlin-Steglitz
While one Knight Henricus of Steglitz was already mentioned in a 1197 deed, the village of Steglitz was first mentioned in the 1375 Landbuch of Emperor Charles IV, at this time also ruler of the Brandenburg Electorate.
Steglitz witnessed the construction of the first paved Prussian country road, in 1792. The former village profited largely from its location on the Imperial Highway Reichsstraße 1, today Bundesstraße 1, which follows a trading route that dates back to the Middle Ages. The old Reichsstraße used to stretch from the far West of Germany through Aachen (Aachen vacation rentals | Aachen travel guide) and Cologne (Cologne vacation rentals | Cologne travel guide) to Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide), then went on eastward to end some two hundred miles northeast of Königsberg in East Prussia. The village of Steglitz also received an economic boost with the construction of the Stammbahn line of the Prussian state railways in 1838, which ran between Berlin and Potsdam (Potsdam vacation rentals | Potsdam travel guide). The Steglitz area was included in the southern line of Berlin's rail and transit systems from around 1850.
The southwestern surroundings of Berlin saw considerable change in the second half of the 19th century when luxurious residential areas were developed in the neighbouring villages of Lichterfelde and later Dahlem (Dahlem vacation rentals | Dahlem travel guide). Lichterfelde West and East, founded by the entrepreneur Johann von Carstenn were developed as so called Villekolonien, settlements entirely made up of mansion houses or villas. In the east the settlement of Südende (South End) was founded in 1873. In Steglitz proper a major shopping area developed around the Schlosstrasse, catering also for the wealthy villages of Lichterfelde and Dahlem. In 1901 the first Wandervogel youth group was founded in the basement of the Steglitz town hall.
Steglitz was incorporated into the city of Greater Berlin in 1920 together with the neighbouring villages. From 1920 to 2000 the administrative district IX was called Bezirk Steglitz. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform the Berlin southwestern area was united in the newly created borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, with its expensive residential developments today the most affluent of the twelve Berlin boroughs.
[ source: wikipedia ]
What makes this Live Like a German Berlin-Steglitz Travel Guide special...
This Berlin-Steglitz travel guide provides you with an overview of Berlin-Steglitz, Berlin-Steglitz pictures, and a local travel guide that suggests many special trips, unique activities, and vacation ideas, that you can't find in a typical Germany travel guide.
Some of this information is compiled from popular and well-known sources (e.g., such as Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and great pictures from Flickr). However, what makes this Germany travel guide special is that most of the travel suggestions and insider tips are provided by local residents, property owners, and our readers, who share and submit their travel tips with us. All submissions are then editorially reviewed to ensure high quality. All this information is logically organized within this destination guide to make it easy for you to find things quickly.
In addition, the Berlin-Steglitz destination guide features restaurant recommendations, restaurant reviews, where to go for grocery shopping, sports activities, getting around, cultural events and highlights, entertainment, and health related information - so you are informed for your travel to Germany, and you can learn about all the cool things you can do during your Germany vacation!
