Dahlem (Berlin)
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| Quarter of Berlin | |
"Rost- and Silberlaube" complex of the FU Berlin
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Location of Dahlem in Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Berlin
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| Coordinates: 52°27′29″N 13°17′15″E / 52.45806°N 13.28750°ECoordinates: 52°27′29″N 13°17′15″E / 52.45806°N 13.28750°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Steglitz-Zehlendorf |
| Founded | 1275 |
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| • Total | 8.39 km2 (3.24 sq mi) |
| Population (June 30, 2013) | |
| • Total | 15,796 |
| • Density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | (nr. 0605) 12203, 14169, 14195 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
Dahlem is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of Zehlendorf. Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and an important historical center for academic research. Dahlem is home to the renowned Freie Universität Berlin with its Philological Library ("The Brain") by Norman Foster as an important local landmark. Several other research institutions, the Berlin Botanical Garden (officially on the ground of neighbouring Lichterfelde) and many museums are located there. Although Dahlem has a reputation of an idyllic and quiet area, it is very busy with students arriving by U-Bahn on weekdays. The western part of the locality includes parts of the Grunewald forest, including the Renaissance Grunewald hunting lodge built in 1543.
The first written account of Dahlem dates to the year 1275. The history of the village is connected to the Dahlem Demesne (Domäne Dahlem) first mentioned in 1450. Its estates were sold to the state of Prussia in 1841 and developed by dividing it into lots for building villas and mansions. The Demesne buildings today house a working farm and an agricultural open-air museum. In 1920 the village was amalgamated into Greater Berlin. From 1931 on Martin Niemöller, a leader of the Confessing Church, was pastor of the United Protestant Sankt-Annen-Kirche until he was arrested by the Nazis in 1937.
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