Wannsee

Wannsee is a hamlet in the district of Steglitz- Zehlendorf in Berlin, located in the extreme southwest of the city.

The for the most part, located between lakes district is a popular destination for many locals and tourists alike. The main area is a former island. She can be reached via five bridges today: The Wannsee bridge Alsenbrücke, the Hubertus bridge Park Bridge and the Glienicke Bridge. A small part of this " Wannsee Island ", the settlement Kleinglienicke belongs to Potsdam.

For the district include the location locations Heckeshorn, pitcher Horn, Albrecht Teerofen, Kohlhasenbrück and stone pieces as well as the Peacock Island and the capital mistake with the historic center of the district.

Location

Will surround the district in the north and west of the Havel river, called the east by Lake Wannsee and in the south by a chain of lakes, Griebnitzkanal, and the Griebnitzsee. The Griebnitzkanal with the famous Teilsee, the Kleiner Wannsee, connects the Wannsee with the Griebnitzsee, adjoins the east of the Teltow Canal. The western part of the Griebnitzsee is connected via the Glienicker Lake with the Havel River, approximately level with the Glienicke Bridge. The Havel area west of Wannsee is dominated by Jungfernsee, which further extends to the northwest.

Wannsee is covered with forest in the north and west. The settlement is expected from the small village of Stolpe ( the area around the Wilhelmplatz ). Today, running east -west national highway 1 runs right through Wannsee, in which also the present settlement focus is.

Transport links

The transport links include the long-distance and S-Bahn station Berlin -Wannsee, the federal highway 115 which as AVUS has further into town a past as a racetrack, and also the king street Glienicker bridge that connects Berlin and Potsdam as a federal road 1, as well as a scenic alternative for AVUS, the curvaceous Havelchaussee along the Havel bank.

Attractions

On the western shore of the Great Lake Wannsee ( Am Grossen Wannsee 56/58 ), the villa where the Wannsee Conference took place, in which the deportation and murder of the European Jews was organized and planned. Today the house is a memorial and educational center. After the renovation of the Liebermann-Villa, the summer home of the painter Max Liebermann was opened on 30 April 2006 as a museum. In the further course of the road Am Grossen Wannsee, the site of the former Reich Air Defense School of architects Eduard Jobst Siedler is ( 1938/1939 ). Situated on a plateau on the lakeshore at Heckeshorn where the Colonie Alsen goes into the forest chaff, there is a 2005 restored zinc copy of Flensburg Lion from the year 1874.

In the center of the village of Stolpe is the 1858/1859 built according to plans of Schinkel student Friedrich August Stiller church on Stolpchensee as well as the oldest building in Wannsee, which is open as a gallery Wannsee since 1980.

At the Kleiner Wannsee is located on the eastern shore side Kleist grave. On the New Cemetery issue also includes the graves of the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, the physician Ferdinand Sauerbruch and of Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Emil Fischer. In the old cemetery Wannsee in Friedenstraße the architect Hans Poelzig and the cab driver Gustav Hartmann are buried, the latter was called " Iron Gustav " by his protest ride in 1928 to Paris famous against the decline of the Droschkengewerbes. To the west are the Glienicker castle and hunting lodge Glienicke two locks that are in the park Klein-Glienicke. If you cross the bridge in park Kleinglienicke, one has the Babelsberg Castle with another park in front of eyes. On the Peacock Island is another castle, which was commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II in the 18th century in order. Near the Peacock Island is the Church of St. Peter and Paul is located on Nikolskoe.

North of the federal highway 1 is the second highest tower in Berlin, the Telecommunications Tower Berlin- Schäferberg.

The listed Wannsee beach, probably the biggest Binnengewässerbad Europe, located on the eastern shore of the Great Lake Wannsee. However, it does not belong to the town of Wannsee, but the district Nikolasee.

From 1870 onwards, a cultural landscape that is unmatched searched the Empire and the Weimar Republic was created in Wannsee. Many wonderful villas emerged at this time, of which only a few are left today.

As the era of industrialization began, it drove many Berliners from the center to the outskirts. At this time the area was around the village of Stolpe still largely uninhabited. 1863 acquired Wilhelm Conrad, nature lover, a successful banker and director of the Berliner Handelsgesellschaft, the inn Stimmings pitcher. Through acquisitions it expanded its land position in the years to 320 acres of land. 1870 by Conrad demolish the restaurant and build the villa of Als in the same place. This villa was the starting point for the further colonization and establishment of Colonie Alsen.

Wilhelm Conrad turned out a total work of villas before, after the pattern of the latest Berlin villa colonies, but situated in a parkland setting, surrounded by the waters of the Havel lakes. The Peter Joseph students and Berlin horticulture director Gustav Meyer was instructed to draw up a plan. In this the center of the colony was placed as the Hippodrome, by which the King's Road was performed in the longitudinal axis. Conrad knew his craft and found buyers for many parcels, one of which was no less than a Prussian acres ( 180 square rods = 2553 m²). Only two years after he moved into the villa Alsen, already lived 64 settlers in twelve new villas in the colony.

From 1874, the settlement began along the eastern shore of the Great Lake Wannsee. Prince Friedrich Karl, the owner of the parcels, they sold, among others, the kerosene lamp manufacturer Ernst Wild and Friedrich Wilhelm Wessel. The villas, which were created in the Wannsee villa colony were mostly even greater than that of the opposite Colonie Alsen.

In order to gain additional public for the settlement in the colonies had to be created an effective infrastructure. 1874 a rail link between Berlin and Wannsee was after strong resistance, but at the will of Conrad, enforced. In addition, the railway ran in connection to addition to Potsdam. In the vernacular, the newly created Wannseebahn was also called crazy train on Conrädern or Bankierszug. With it, the travel time from the center of Berlin in the colony shortened to just 20 minutes.

In 1898, the municipality of Wannsee from the village of Stolpe, of Colonie Alsen and the colony was Wannsee. In the course of the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the community was assigned to the district of Zehlendorf.

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Berlin- Wannsee

Sports

Wannsee has its own golf course, which was founded in 1895. 21 In addition to sailing and rowing clubs, there are ten with the FV Wannsee a football club and the Wannsee TuS a club whose members operate Athletics. Since March 2012, the office of the Company is located on International Water tourism in the district of Wannsee eV, which aims to raise awareness especially foreign tourists visiting Berlin for the water- tourist offer. Also located at the former Don Bosco home with the riding therapy center Berlin a horse farm. In addition, there are various bathing facilities, especially the - Located in the neighboring district of Nikolasee - Wannsee beach and the large sunbathing lawn at the old farm.

Overviews in list form

History

Monuments, parks, palaces, museums

  • Flensburg Lion
  • Liebermann-Villa
  • Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference ' ( former Villa Marlier ), Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58
  • Kleist grave
  • Glienicke
  • Glienicke Hunting Lodge
  • Heliport Steinstücken

Waters

  • Havel waters west of the Berlin forest Calves Werder (Island ) ( location )
  • Peacock Island (Island ) ( location )
  • Moor Lake ( location )
  • Jungfernsee ( location )
  • Havel Haveleck ( location )
  • Waters in the East Großer Wannsee ( location )
  • Eulenbruch ( location )
  • Heckeshorn at Wannsee ( location )
  • Waters in the South Kleiner Wannsee ( location )
  • Tatar Tatar pond and ditch (position ) with drainage to the Little Wannsee
  • Pohlesee ( location )
  • Griebnitzseekanal between PHLE and Stolpchensee ( location ) as well as Prince Friedrich Leopold Canal from Stolpchensee Griebnitzsee ( location )
  • Stolpchensee ( location )
  • Teltow Canal ( location )
  • Griebnitzsee ( location )
  • Glienicker Lake ( location )

Personalities from Wannsee

  • Philipp Franck, painter, lived in later named after him Philipp Franck- way
  • Götz George grew up in Wannsee
  • Otto Erich hard life (1864-1905), playwright, poet and storyteller
  • Gustav Hartmann, a cab driver, known as the Iron Gustav, lived 1900-1938 in the Alsenstraße
  • Max Liebermann, painters and an important representative of Impressionism, as well as the Berlin Secession
  • Rosemarie Empire Wine (1904-2002), Bobath therapist
  • Theodor Rosenhauer, painter, died here in 1996
  • Heinz Schröder (1910-1997), Socialist Resistance
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