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Berlin-Schöneberg

Schöneberg
Quarter of Berlin
Town Hall
Coat of arms of Schöneberg
Coat of arms
Schöneberg  is located in Germany
Schöneberg
Schöneberg
Coordinates: 52°29′00″N 13°22′00″E / 52.48333°N 13.36667°E / 52.48333; 13.36667Coordinates: 52°29′00″N 13°22′00″E / 52.48333°N 13.36667°E / 52.48333; 13.36667
Country Germany
State Berlin
City Berlin
Borough Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Founded 1264
Area
 • Total 10.6 km2 (4.1 sq mi)
Elevation 50 m (160 ft)
Population (2008-06-30)
 • Total 116,743
 • Density 11,000/km2 (29,000/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes (nr. 0701) 10777, 10779, 10781, 10783, 10787, 10789, 10823, 10825, 10827, 10829, 12157, 12159, 12161, 12169
Vehicle registration B

Schöneberg is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.

The village was first documented in a 1264 deed issued by Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg. In 1751 Bohemian weavers founded Neu-Schöneberg also known as Böhmisch-Schöneberg along northern Hauptstraße. During the Seven Years' War on 7 October 1760 Schöneberg and its village church were completely destroyed by a fire due to the joint attack on Berlin by Habsburg and Russian troops.

Both Alt-Schöneberg and Neu-Schöneberg were in an area developed in the course of industrialization and incorporated in a street network laid out in the Hobrecht-Plan in an area that came to be known architecturally as the Wilhelmine Ring. The two villages were not combined as one entity until 1874 and received town privileges in 1898. In the following year it was disentangled from the Kreis Teltow and became a Prussian Stadtkreis (independent city). Many of the former peasants gained wealth by selling their acres to the settlement companies of growing Berlin and built luxurious mansions on Hauptstraße. The large town hall Rathaus Schöneberg was completed in 1914. In 1920 Schöneberg became a part of Greater Berlin. Subsequent to World War II the Rathaus served as the city hall of West Berlin until 1991 when the administration of the reunited City of Berlin moved back to the Rotes Rathaus in Mitte.


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