Wilmersdorf

For the Brandenburg municipality, see Madlitz-Wilmersdorf.

Wilmersdorf
Quarter of Berlin
A residential area in Wilmersdorf
Wilmersdorf
Location of Wilmersdorf in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Berlin
Coordinates	52°29′0″N 13°19′0″E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Basic statistics
Area	7.16 km2 (2.76 sq mi)
Elevation	43 m  (141 ft)
Population	92,815  (30 June 2008)
- Density	12,963 /km2 (33,574 /sq mi)
Founded	1220
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	B
Postal codes	(nr. 0402) 10707, 10709, 10711, 10713, 10715, 10717, 10719, 14197, 14199

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.

History

The village near Berlin was first mentioned in 1293 as Wilmerstorff, probably founded in the course of the German Ostsiedlung under the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg. 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.

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

Photogallery

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  Church at Hohenzollernplatz

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  Berlin Mosque

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  Volkspark Wilmersdorf

External links

Media related to Wilmersdorf at Wikimedia Commons