Steglitz

Steglitz
Quarter of Berlin
Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Steglitz in Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Berlin
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Coordinates: 52°27′25″N 13°19′14″E / 52.45694°N 13.32056°E / 52.45694; 13.32056
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Founded	1792
Area
• Total	6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[1]
• Total	75,578
• Density	11,000/km2 (29,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	12157, 12161, 12163, 12165, 12167, 12169
Vehicle registration	B

Steglitz (German:

While one Knight Henricus of Steglitz was already mentioned in an 1197 deed, the village of Steglitz was first mentioned in the 1375 Landbuch of Emperor Charles IV, at this time also ruler of the Electorate of Brandenburg.

Steglitz witnessed the construction of the first paved Prussian country road, in 1792. The former village profited largely from its location on the Imperial Highway Reichsstraße 1, today Bundesstraße 1, which follows a trading route that dates back to the Middle Ages. The old Reichsstraße stretched from the far west of Germany through Aachen and Cologne to Berlin, then continued on eastward to end some two hundred miles northeast of Königsberg in East Prussia. The village of Steglitz was also boosted significantly with the construction of the Stammbahn line of the Prussian state railways in 1838. This was the first railroad in Prussia and ran between Berlin and Potsdam. The Steglitz area was included in the southern line of Berlin's rail and transit systems from around 1850.

The southwestern surroundings of Berlin saw considerable change in the second half of the 19th century when luxurious residential areas were developed in the neighboring villages of

• Gutshaus Steglitz (Steglitz Manor), a Neoclassical building designed by David Gilly in 1801, which since 1921 housed the small Schlossparktheater, one of the former Berlin state theaters, that nevertheless finally closed in 2006 [1]
• The Schloßstraße, the second largest shopping area in West Berlin after Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße, including Forum Steglitz, one of Germany's first shopping malls opened in 1970
• Neo-Gothic Steglitz town hall, erected in 1898 [2]
• Lutheran Matthew Church, built in 1880
• Catholic Rosary church from 1900, which received the title of a basilica
  in 1950
• The notorious Steglitzer Kreisel, a 119 m (390 ft) highrise erected between 1968 and 1980, designed by architect
  parking garage
  .
• The Bierpinsel ("Beer Brush"), a tavern in a tower on Schlossstraße with an interesting architectural style built in 1976
• Titania-Palast, a large cinema erected in 1928 in the New Objectivity style. On 26 May 1945, it was the site of the first concert of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. On 6 June 1951, it saw the opening ceremony of the first Berlin International Film Festival
• The Fichtenberg hill, highest point in Steglitz, 68 m (223 ft).
• The Grundschule am Insulaner is an elementary and middle school near Südende.
• Die Spiegelwand - Mirrored Wall - is a Holocaust Memorial with the names and addresses of 1700 Jews in the Steglitz area who were deported and murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Take either U-Bahn or S-Bahn to Rathaus-Steglitz. The Memorial is right across the street from the Station.

Transport

Steglitz is served by the

Notable people

• Walter Fritzsche (1895-1956), football player
• Wolfgang Krause (1895-1970), philologist
• Kurt Aland (1915-1994), theologian and biblical scholar
• Maria Sebaldt (1930-2023), actress
• Nils Seethaler (born 1981), Anthropologist

References

External links

• Media related to Berlin-Steglitz at Wikimedia Commons
• Steglitz travel guide from Wikivoyage