Everything about Dahlem Berlin totally explained
This article refers to the neighborhood in Berlin. For other places with the same name, please see Dahlem (disambiguation).
Dahlem is a locality of the
Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern
Berlin. Until
Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of
Zehlendorf. Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and home to the main campus of the
Free University of Berlin with the
2005 Philological Library ("The Brain") by
Norman Foster as its new landmark. Several other institutions of higher education and research, the
Berlin Botanical Garden (officially on the ground of neighbouring
Lichterfelde) and many museums are located here. On weekdays the area is crawling with university students who arrive on the
U-Bahn. In the west parts of the
Grunewald forest belong to Dahlem including the
Renaissance Grunewald hunting lodge built in
1543.
History
The first written account of Dahlem dates to the year
1275. The history of the village is connected to the Dahlem
Demesne (
Domäne Dahlem) first mentioned in
1450. Its estates were sold to the state of
Prussia in
1841 and developed by dividing it into
lots for building
villas and
mansions. The Demesne buildings today house a working farm and an
agricultural open-air
museum. In
1920 the village was amalgamated into
Greater Berlin. From 1931 on
Martin Niemöller, a leader of the
Confessing Church, was
pastor of the
United Protestant Sankt-Annen-Kirche until he was arrested by the
Nazis in 1937.
During the
Cold War Dahlem belonged to the
American Sector of
West Berlin. From 1945 to 1991 the seat of the Allied Kommandantura of Berlin was in Dahlem on
Kaiserswerther Straße. Until 1994 the headquarters of the
United States Army Berlin command and the
Berlin Brigade were located on
Clayallee street. Parts of the building are still used by the
Embassy of the United States in Berlin. The former library and
Outpost theatre across the street today house the (West-)Allied Museum. Because so many of Berlin's artistic, cultural, and educational institutions were located in the city's historical centre in then
East Berlin, West Berlin authorities established many duplicates in Dahlem - above all the Free University in 1948, which continued in part the tradition of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, founded
1911 in Dahlem.
Rudi Dutschke, spokesman of the
German student movement in the 1960s, is buried at the
cemetery of the
Sankt-Annen-Kirche.
Institutions
Museums
The Allied Museum of the American, British and French forces in West Berlin
The Brücke Museum
The Museum Center of the Berlin State Museums, which includes:
Transportation
Dahlem is served by the U3 line on the Berlin U-Bahn system. Stations in Dahlem include Breitenbachplatz, Podbielskiallee, Dahlem-Dorf, Thielplatz and Oskar-Helene-Heim.
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