Charlottenburg

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Charlottenburg
Quarter of Berlin
Charlottenburg Palace
Coat of arms
Location of Charlottenburg in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Berlin
Charlottenburg Show map of Germany Charlottenburg Show map of Berlin
Coordinates: 52°31′00″N 13°18′00″E / 52.51667°N 13.30000°E / 52.51667; 13.30000
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Founded	1705; 319 years ago (1705)
Area
• Total	10.6 km2 (4.1 sq mi)
Elevation	52 m (171 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[1]
• Total	129,359
• Density	12,000/km2 (32,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	(nr. 0401) 10585, 10587, 10589, 10623, 10625, 10627, 10629, 14052, 14055, 14059
Vehicle registration	B

Charlottenburg (German:

Charlottenburg is located in Berlin's

In the north and west, the Berlin Ringbahn and the Bundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) mark the border with the Charlottenburg-Nord and Westend suburbs. Adjacent in the south is the territory of Wilmersdorf. Charlottenburg also borders on the district of Halensee in the southwest, as well as on Moabit, Hansaviertel and Tiergarten (all part of the Mitte borough) in the east and on Schöneberg in the southeast.

History

Archaeological findings in the area date back to the

Lietzow

Lietzow (also called Lietze, Lutze, Lutzen, Lütze, Lützow, Lusze and Lucene) was first documented in 1239, when the

In 1695,

In the late 18th century, Charlottenburg's development did not depend only on the crown. The town became a recreational area for the expanding city of

From the 1860s on the wealthy Bourgeoisie of Berlin discovered Charlottenburg as a residential area, among the first were

Talaat Pasha, the former Ottoman Empire Minister of the Interior, one of the Three Pashas, and architect of the Armenian genocide, was assassinated by Soghomon Tehlirian in Charlottenburg on 15 March 1921.^[3]

Borough of Berlin

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In the 1920s the area around the Kurfürstendamm evolved into the "New West" of Berlin, a development that had already started around 1900 with the opening of the Theater des Westens, the Café des Westens and the Kaufhaus des Westens, followed by several theatres, cinemas, bars and restaurants, which made Charlottenburg the Berlin centre of leisure and nightlife. Artists like

Before the reunification of Berlin, Charlottenburg was the centre of West Berlin, with many high market bars and restaurants. After 1990 German reunification Charlottenburg struggled with the rise of the Mitte borough as Berlin's historic centre.^[6] The City West is still the main shopping area, offering several major hotels, theatres, bars and restaurants.

The area around Charlottenburg's Kantstrasse is Berlin's Chinatown in the West, with a high concentration of Asian shops, gastronomy and inhabitants. It is commonly dubbed Kantonstrasse, in reference to the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.^[7]

Sights

Overview

Beside the palace, Charlottenburg is also home to:

• ESCP Business School
• the old and new
  Franz Schwechten and in 1961 by Egon Eiermann, the former West Berlin
  landmark
• the Europa-Center, Berlin's first shopping mall opened in 1965
• Bahnhof Zoo, the main railway station in Berlin until the opening of Berlin Hauptbahnhof
  in 2006
• the adjacent
  Berlin Zoological Garden, opened in 1844, officially located on the territory of the neighbouring Tiergarten
  locality
• Kurfürstendamm avenue, first laid out about 1542, today together with the Tauentzienstraße Berlin's main shopping area
• Technical University of Berlin with about 27,000 students, founded in 1879
• Berlin University of the Arts with about 4,500 students
• Charlottenburg Town Hall, built in 1905
• Charlottenburg Gate
• Luisenkirche on Gierkeplatz, built in 1823 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
• the Amerika Haus on Hardenbergstraße, built in 1957 by the United States Information Agency
• the Malteser-Hilfsdienst (
  Order of Malta
  ) building at Alt-Lietzow str. 33
• the Literaturhaus on Fasanenstraße and the nearby Institute for Media and Communication Policy
• SRH Hochschule Berlin

Theatres

• Deutsche Oper Berlin on Bismarckstraße, opened in 1912, one of the three Berlin opera houses with relief in memory of Benno Ohnesorg by Alfred Hrdlicka, 1971 (installed in 1990)
• Theater des Westens musical theatre at Kantstraße, built in 1896
• Renaissance-Theater on Hardenbergstraße, 1902, rebuilt in
  Art deco design by Oskar Kaufmann
  in 1927
• Schiller Theater, built by Max Littmann in 1906
• Theater am Kurfürstendamm, 1921

Museums

• Museum Berggruen for classic modern art
• Museum Scharf-Gerstenberg for surrealist art

both located in the former

• Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum for Pre- and Early History)
• Museum of Photography and Helmut Newton Foundation, next to Bahnhof Zoo
• Bröhan Museum for Art Nouveau and Art Deco
• Literaturhaus Berlin
• Käthe Kollwitz Museum on Fasanenstraße
• Gipsformerei (
  Berlin State Museums
• Beate Uhse Erotic Museum (closed in September 2014 and searching for new premises.^[8])

References