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Location of Friedenau in Tempelhof-Schöneberg and Berlin
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Tempelhof-Schöneberg |
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| Area | 1.65 km2 (0.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 40 m (131 ft) |
| Population | 26,736 (30 June 2008) |
| - Density | 16,204 /km2 (41,967 /sq mi) |
| Founded | 1871 |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | B |
| Postal codes | (nr. 0702) 12159, 12161 |
Friedenau is a locality (Ortsteil) within the borough (Bezirk) of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany. Per population density it is the highest one into the city.[1]
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The origin of the name Friedenau is German; coming from the word Frieden (peace) and the suffix -au, referring to floodplains. Hence Friedenau means "floodplain of peace".
In 1871 Friedenau was founded as a commuter town on the estates of the former Deutsch-Wilmersdorf manor. The name was proposed by Hedwig Hähnel, wife of the architect Hermann Hähnel, in memory of the Peace Treaty of Frankfurt, ending the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. The name was adopted by Mr. Hähnel, then the director of the Landerwerb- und Bauverein auf Actien (inc.), which developed the real estate in the area.[2] When in 1874 the area constituted as an independent municipality within the Province of Brandenburg, the denotation had already been established and became the official municipal name.
Friedenau opened its own non-denominational municipal cemetery, today's Städtischer Friedhof III, which soon grew too small. So in 1909 Friedenau bought a tract of land in Güterfelde (today a component of Stahnsdorf) as additional graveyard, with the first burial taking place in 1913. Friedenau's municipal construction councillor Hans Altmann designed for the cemetery a mourning chapel, an office, a gardener's house, a flower shop, benches and a fountain as well as a net of paths replicating the streets net in Friedenau. Since June 1913 the cemetery was accessible via the so-called cemetery train line ending at Stahnsdorf station.
Friedenau joined with the town of Schöneberg in 1920 – under the latter's name – as the former 11th administrative borough of Greater Berlin. In the short time from 29 April to 30 June 1945, when the Red Army occupied all Berlin, it was a borough in its own right, until it was reunified with Schöneberg as one borough within the American Sector of West Berlin.
The Güterfelde cemetery, since 1920 called Forest Cemetery of Schöneberg was operated since 1935 by Berlin's Borough of Wilmersdorf, called Wilmersdorf Forest Cemetery Güterfelde (German: Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde). After 1945 the cemetery happened to be in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and later in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), thus with the increasing Eastern interdiction of West Berlin the cemetery grew inaccessible for the Friedenauers.
On 5 April 1986 a bomb exploded at the La Belle discotheque, Hauptstraße 78, killing a Turkish woman and two U.S. servicemen and injuring numerous people. A plaque marks the site.
Friedenau has always been home to creative artists, especially of authors. Prominent residents include:
Friedenau has access to the Berlin U-Bahn network at Innsbrucker Platz station (U4) as well as at Bundesplatz, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz and Walther-Schreiber-Platz (U9). S-Bahn service is available at the Bundesplatz and Innsbrucker Platz stations of the Ringbahn. The nearby Friedenau station of the S1 line is actually situated in neighbouring Schöneberg.
The locality can also be reached via Bundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) at Wexstraße and Innsbrucker Platz junctions and by Bundesautobahn 103 (Westtangente), also Bundesstraße 1, at Saarstraße.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Berlin-Friedenau Friedenau] at Wikimedia Commons
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