Nikolassee () is a
locality (''Ortsteil'') of
Berlin in the borough (''Bezirk'') of
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Steglitz-Zehlendorf () is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf.
Home to Free University of Berlin, the Berlin Botanical Garden, and a variety of mu ...
, 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 lake with the large ''
Strandbad Wannsee
The Strandbad Wannsee is an open-air lido on the eastern shore of Großer Wannsee lake, a large bay of the Havel river in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1907, it is one of the largest inland lidos in Europe, with a beach that is long and wide, replen ...
''lido, as well as the islets of
Schwanenwerder and Lindwerder.
Geography
Nikolassee is located on the
Bundesstraße 1
The Bundesstraße 1 (abbr. B1) is a German federal highway running in an east-west direction from the Netherlands, Dutch border near Aachen to the Poland, Polish border at Küstrin-Kietz on the Oder River.
History
The road developed from an anc ...
road from the Berlin city centre to
Potsdam, south of the extended
Grunewald forest. The river
Havel
The Havel () is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt. It is a right tributary of the Elbe and long. However, the direct distance from its source to its mo ...
separates it from
Kladow and
Gatow in the
Spandau borough. Other localities bordering with Nikolassee are
Wannsee,
Zehlendorf and
Grunewald (this one in
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ). Its southern neighbour
Kleinmachnow is a municipality in the
Potsdam-Mittelmark district of
Brandenburg. 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 lines with the opening of
Berlin-Nikolassee station
station (german: Bahnhof Berlin-Nikolassee) is a railway station in the area of Berlin, Germany. It is served by trains of the , and is notable for its prominent Neo-Gothic entrance building.
Overview
line S1 operates to and from central Berli ...
.
Originally an independent
Brandenburg municipality, Nikolassee was incorporated into Berlin with the
Greater Berlin Act
The Greater Berlin Act (german: Groß-Berlin-Gesetz), officially Law Regarding the Creation of the New Municipality of Berlin (german: Gesetz über die Bildung einer neuen Stadtgemeinde Berlin), was a law passed by the Prussian state government i ...
of 1920. Part of
West Berlin during the "
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
", its southern border with the municipality of
Kleinmachnow, at the same time the border between the American Sector and what was to be the
East Germany, was fortified by the
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
between 1961 and 1989. Located on the present
A 115 motorway was the US
Checkpoint Bravo (''Drewitz-Dreilinden''), built in 1969.
Transport
Nikolassee is served by the ''
S-Bahn'' lines
S1,
S5[On Friday and Saturday nights only] and
S7, at the
homonymous station. The locality is also crossed by the motorway
A 115 (the former ''
AVUS'', 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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Localities of Berlin
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