Westend (Berlin)

Westend
Quarter of Berlin
Steubenplatz with equestrian statue by Louis Tuaillon
Westend
Location of Westend in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Berlin
Coordinates: 52°31′00″N 13°17′00″E / 52.51667°N 13.28333°E / 52.51667; 13.28333Coordinates: 52°31′00″N 13°17′00″E / 52.51667°N 13.28333°E / 52.51667; 13.28333
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Founded	1866
Area
• Total	13.5 km2 (5.2 sq mi)
Elevation	52 m (171 ft)
Population (2008-06-30)
• Total	37,883
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	(nr. 0405) 14050, 14052, 14053, 14055, 14057, 14059
Vehicle registration	B

Westend is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to Berlin's inner city in the east.

Westend is situated west of Berlin's inner city on Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the sandy Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel. It is centered on Theodor-Heuss-Platz, a large square, from where the Heerstraße arterial road, part of the Bundesstraße 2 and Bundesstraße 5 highways, runs west towards the Berlin city limits. In the west and north, Westend borders on the Berlin Spandau borough.

The locality also includes the neighbourhoods of Neu-Westend and Ruhleben, a suburban housing area of the 1920s. The site of the former Ruhleben internment camp, a World War I detention camp for civilians, today is part of the adjacent Spandau district. Furthermore, the areas of Pichelsberg, Heerstraße and Eichkamp at the northern rim of the Grunewald forest belong to Westend. It is also home of the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds (where the International Green Week and the Internationale Funkausstellung are held) and of the Olympiastadion built for the 1936 Summer Olympics.