Berlin-Wilmersdorf Travel Guide
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Berlin-Wilmersdorf Overview
Wilmersdorf is a neighborhood in western Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide), to the south of Charlottenburg and the west of Schöneberg. The famous Kurfürstendamm Boulevard runs through the neighborhood, Charlottenburg Castle is close by, and both Lake Wannsee and Grunewald Forest, with its 16th century Hunting Lodge (now the home of a famous art museum), are popular nearby recreational destinations. Our featured vacation apartment is fully-equipped and located on a small street with little traffic, close to both subway stations and bus stops, with plenty of shopping opportunities. Book now and receive a 10% discount!
Wilmersdorf is an inner city locality of Berlin, formerly a borough by itself but since Berlin's 2001 administrative reform a part of the new borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. In the north the Kurfürstendamm runs through the area.
Wilmersdorf is on the plateau of the Teltow (Teltow vacation rentals | Teltow travel guide) in the southwest of present-day Berlin. It is bordered in the north by the district of Charlottenburg, on the west by the districts Halensee and Schmargendorf, in the south to the district Steglitz-Zehlendorf district belonging Steglitz and east of the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg's Ortsteile Friedenau (at the Rheingau district) and Schöneberg.
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Things to See in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
- Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz by Fritz Höger
- Schaubühne theatre by Erich Mendelsohn
- Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide), Germany's oldest mosque from
- Russian Orthodox cathedral of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Saint Ludwig Church
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Maps and Driving Directions to Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Berlin (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Berlin-Wilmersdorf
- Wikipedia - Wilmersdorf
- Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz
- Schaubühne
- Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin
- Künstlerkolonie Berlin
- Underground Cathedral
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross
- Synagogue Prinzregentenstraße
- Evangelical Auenkirche
- Volkspark Wilmersdorf
More about the History of Berlin-Wilmersdorf
The village near Berlin (Berlin vacation rentals | Berlin travel guide) was first mentioned in 1293 as Wilmerstorff. From the 1850s on Deutsch-Wilmersdorf was developed as a densely settled, affluent residential area, which in 1920 became a part of Greater Berlin. The former borough of Wilmersdorf included the localities of Halensee, Schmargendorf and Grunewald.
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