Wilmersdorf

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Location of Wilmersdorf within the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin

Church at Hohenzollernplatz

A residential area in Wilmersdorf

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.

[edit] History

The village near Berlin 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.

[edit] Sights

• Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz by Fritz Höger, 1933
• Schaubühne theatre by Erich Mendelsohn, 1926
• Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin, Germany's oldest mosque from 1926
• Russian Orthodox cathedral of the Resurrection of Jesus, 1938
• Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Saint Ludwig Church, 1897

[edit] External links

• Media related to Berlin-Wilmersdorf at Wikimedia Commons

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Coordinates: 52°29′N 13°19′E / 52.483°N 13.317°E / 52.483; 13.317