Nikolassee () is a

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(''Ortsteil'') of

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in the borough (''Bezirk'') of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, named after the small Nikolassee lake. Located in the affluent Southwest of the city, the area comprises parts of the Schlachtensee neighbourhood and the eastern shore of the

Großer Wannsee The Großer Wannsee (, "Greater Wannsee", "See" means lake) is a bight of the Havel river near the locality of Wannsee and Nikolassee (in the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf), a south-western suburb of the German capital Berlin not far from Pots ...

lake with the large '' Strandbad Wannsee ''lido, as well as the islets of

Schwanenwerder Schwanenwerder (; English: "Swan Ait") is an island in the locality of Nikolassee in southwestern Berlin, located in a wider stretch of the Havel close to the eastern bank and adjacent to the Großer Wannsee to the south of it. The neighbourhood ...

and Lindwerder.

Geography

Nikolassee is located on the Bundesstraße 1 road from the Berlin city centre to

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

, south of the extended Grunewald forest. The river Havel separates it from Kladow and

Gatow Gatow (), a district of south-western Berlin is located west of the ''Havelsee'' lake and has forested areas within its boundaries. It is within the borough of Spandau. On 31 December 2002, it had 5,532 inhabitants. History Gatow's existence was ...

in the

Spandau Spandau () is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs () of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smallest borough by population, but the fourth largest by land ...

borough. Other localities bordering with Nikolassee are

Wannsee Wannsee () is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger ''Großer Wannsee'' (Greater Wannsee, "See" means lake) and the ...

, Zehlendorf and Grunewald (this one in

Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf () is the fourth borough of Berlin, formed in an administrative reform with effect from 1 January 2001, by merging the former boroughs of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf. Overview Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf covers the w ...

district ). Its southern neighbour

Kleinmachnow Kleinmachnow is a municipality of about 20,000 inhabitants in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated South-West of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf and East of Potsdam. First mentioned in the Landbuch of Karl ...

is a municipality in the

Potsdam-Mittelmark Potsdam-Mittelmark is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the western part of Brandenburg, Germany. Its neighbouring administrative units are (clockwise from the north) the district of Havelland, the free cities of Brandenburg and Potsdam, the state of Berl ...

district of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

. The residential areas of Nikolassee and Grunewald are separated by the Grunewald forest.

History

Once part of the Düppel manor, from 1901 onwards the area was developed as a mansion colony (''Villenkolonie Nikolassee''). One year later, the settlement received connection to the Berlin-Blankenheim and

Wannsee Railway The Wannsee Railway (german: Wannseebahn) is a suburban railway in Berlin running from Potsdamer Platz via the Ring line station of Schöneberg to Wannsee station on Großer Wannsee, a lake after which it is named. Today it is a section of the B ...

lines with the opening of Berlin-Nikolassee station. Originally an independent

municipality, Nikolassee was incorporated into Berlin with the Greater Berlin Act of 1920. Part of

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

during the " Cold War", its southern border with the municipality of

, at the same time the border between the American Sector and what was to be the

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

, was fortified by the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. Located on the present A 115 motorway was the US

Checkpoint Bravo Checkpoint Bravo ("Checkpoint B") was the name given by the Western Allies to the main Autobahn border crossing point between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. It was known in German as . Drewitz is a community nearby, and Dreilin ...

(''Drewitz-Dreilinden''), built in 1969.

Transport

Nikolassee is served by the ''

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble c ...

'' lines S1, S5On Friday and Saturday nights only and S7, at the homonymous station. The locality is also crossed by the motorway A 115 (the former ''

AVUS The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern p ...

'', exit "Spanischer Allee"), and by the federal highway B1.

Photogallery

File:Nikolassee Rathaus Nikolassee-002.JPG, Town Hall Nikolassee File:Schwanenwerder B-Wannsee 08-2017.jpg, View of Schwanenwerder island File:Berlin-Nikolassee Kronprinzessinnenweg 21 LDL 09075581.JPG, Restaurant and lake port ''Schloss Wannsee'' File:StDS-Dorfpl-21 MilaHacke kl.jpg, Student Village Schlachtensee (Central Square) File:Nikolassee Kirchweg Kirche Nikolassee.JPG, Nikolassee Church

References

External links

History and culture of Nikolassee
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