Grunewald

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Location of the neighborhood of Grunewald in Berlin
Location of the neighborhood of Grunewald in Berlin
Hunting lodge at Grunewald, 1832, by Wilhelm Barth
Hunting lodge at Grunewald, 1832, by Wilhelm Barth

Grunewald (Greenwood) is both a forest in Berlin on the east side of the Havel and a municipal district of Berlin (part of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The district developed out of a so-called "mansion colony" when the upper class of Berlin discovered Grunewald as an attractive site for living. Today, the social structure of Grunewald is still influenced by this origins.