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Location of Westend in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Berlin
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
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| Area | 13.5 km2 (5.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population | 37,883 (30 June 2008) |
| - Density | 2,806 /km2 (7,268 /sq mi) |
| Founded | 1866 |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | B |
| Postal codes | (nr. 0405) 14050, 14052, 14053, 14055, 14057, 14059 |
Westend is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf situated on the Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough.
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In 1806 Napoleon had a military camp here, though he himself chose Charlottenburg Palace for accommodation. The land was developed from 1866 on as a residential area for the wealthy bourgeoisie, originally made up of mansions and villas and named after the West End of London. Today it is a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to the inner city area of Charlottenburg in the east.
The locality also includes the neighbourhoods of Neu-Westend and Ruhleben, a suburban housing area of the 1920s. The site of the former Ruhleben P.O.W. Camp, a World War I civilian prisoner of war camp, today is part of the adjacent Spandau district. Furthermore the areas of Pichelsberg, Heerstraße and Eichkamp at the northern rim of the Grunewald forest belong to Westend. It is home of the Berlin trade fair (where the Internationale Funkausstellung is held) and of the former Reichssportfeld area of the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Westend is served by the Berlin S-Bahn Ringbahn lines S41, S42 and S46 at the stations Westend, Messe Nord/ICC and Westkreuz as well as the Westbahn lines S75 and S9 at the stations Messe Süd, Heerstraße, Olympiastadion (Süd) and Pichelsberg.
U-Bahn connection to the inner city is provided by the U2 line with the stations Kaiserdamm, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, Neu-Westend, Olympia-Stadion (Ost) and Ruhleben.
The A100 (Berliner Stadtring) motorway marks Westend's eastern border. The federal highways Bundesstraße 2 and Bundesstraße 5 together run through the locality along the streets Kaiserdamm and Heerstraße. Near the S-Bahn station Messe Nord/ICC is Berlin's Central Bus station Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof (ZOB).
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Berlin-Westend Westend] at Wikimedia Commons
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