- Wilmersdorf
Wilmersdorf is a
inner city locality ofBerlin , formerly a borough by itself but sinceBerlin's 2001 administrative reform a part of the new borough ofCharlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . In the north theKurfürstendamm runs through the area.History
The village near Berlin was first mentioned in 1293 as "Wilmerstorff". From the 1850s on "Deutsch-Wilmersdorf" was developed as a densely settled, affluent residential area, which in 1920 became a part of Greater Berlin. The former borough of Wilmersdorf included the localities of
Halensee ,Schmargendorf andGrunewald .ights
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Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz byFritz Höger , 1933
*Schaubühne theatre byErich Mendelsohn , 1926
*Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin ,Germany 's oldestmosque from 1926
* Russian Orthodox cathedral of the Resurrection of Jesus, 1938
* Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Saint Ludwig Church, 1897
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