Dahlem (Berlin)

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This article refers to the neighborhood in Berlin. For other places with the same name, please see Dahlem (disambiguation).

Dahlem is a locality in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough of southwestern Berlin. It is one of the most affluent parts of the city and is home to the main campus of the Free University of Berlin, several other institutions of higher education and research, the Berlin Botanical Garden, and many museums.

The first written account of Dahlem dates to the year 1275. In 1920, it was amalgamated into the city of Berlin. During the Cold War Dahlem lay in West Berlin; the location of many of the city's former artistic, cultural, and educational institutions in the east was the reason so many were established in Dahlem during the 1950s and 60s. Until 2001, when Berlin's borough system was reorganized, the district lay was part of the borough of Zehlendorf.

[edit] Institutions

• The Allied Museum
• Berlin Botanical Garden
• Brücke Museum
• Dahlem Domain, a working farm and open-air museum
• Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry
• Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
• Free University of Berlin
• German Archaeological Institute
• German Institute for Economic Research
• Institute for Museum Research
• Konrad Zuse Center for Information Technology
• Several branches of the Max Planck Institute:
  • The Max Planck Institute Archives
  • The Fritz Haber Institute
  • The Max Planck Institute for Education Research
  • The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
  • The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
  • The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• The Museum Center of Berlin-Dahlem, which includes:
  • The Museum of East Asian Art
  • The Ethnological Museum
  • The Museum of European Cultures
  • The Museum of Indian Art
• Secret Prussian State Archives

[edit] Transportation

Dahlem is served by the U3 line on the Berlin U-Bahn system. Stations in Dahlem include Dahlem-Dorf and Thielplatz.

Coordinates: 52°27′29″N, 13°17′15″E