Wilmersdorf
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Wilmersdorf is a 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. The Kurfürstendamm runs through the area. Wilmersdorf was a historic village near Berlin (Deutsch-Wilmersdorf), which was first mentioned in 1293 as Wilmerstorff. From the 1850s on it 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
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