Westend
Worth seeing in and around Westend
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Berlin Olympic Stadium
Olympiastadion, also known in English as the Berlin Olympic Stadium or simply the Olympic Stadium, is a sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was originally designed by Werner March for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
2.5 km · sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first German university to adopt the name Technische Universität.
3.4 km · public research university in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Charlottenburg Palace
Schloss Charlottenburg is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, and is among the largest palaces in the world. The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during the 18th century, primarily for Frederick the Great.
1.4 km · Baroque palace in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.
2.2 km · opera house · Wikipedia - 05Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest.
3.1 km · hill in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Funkturm Berlin
The Berliner Funkturm or Funkturm Berlin is a former broadcasting tower in Berlin, Germany. Constructed between 1924 and 1926 to designs by the architect Heinrich Straumer, it was inaugurated on 3 September 1926, on the occasion of the opening of the third Große Deutsche Funkausstellung in the grounds of the Messe Berlin trade fair in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
1.3 km · radio tower in Berlin · Wikipedia - 07Berggruen Museum
The Berggruen Museum is a collection of modern art classics in Berlin, which the collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen, in a "gesture of reconciliation", sold to his native city far below its market value. The most notable artists on display include Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse.
1.3 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 08Waldbühne
The Waldbühne is an amphitheatre at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by German architect Werner March in emulation of a Greek theatre and built between 1934 and 1936 as the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne, a Nazi Thingplatz, and opened in association with the 1936 Summer Olympics.
3.2 km · open-air theatre in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 09Theater des Westens
The Theater des Westens is one of the most famous theatres for musicals and operettas in Berlin, Germany, located at Kantstraße 10–12 in Charlottenburg. It was founded in 1895 for plays.
3.8 km · theatre in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Bröhan Museum
The Bröhan Museum is a Berlin state museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Functionalism, located in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. The museum is named after its founder, entrepreneur and art collector Karl.
1.3 km · museum of art and design in Berlin · Wikipedia
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Getting to Westend
- Airports
- Berlin Brandenburg (BER), 23 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 141 km · Dresden (DRS), 157 km
- Stations
- Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station, 4 km · Berlin-Charlottenburg railway station, 2.3 km · Richard-Wagner-Platz metro station, 2 km · Mierendorffplatz, 2.2 km · Haselhorst metro station, 3.8 km
- Schkeuditz → Westend144 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €17–23
- Dresden → Westend166 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €20–28
- Erfurt → Westend230 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · €29–41
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Westend. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn the summer bus 218 takes you along the scenic ride through the Grunewald forest in West Berlin, starting at the subway station Theodor-Heuss-Platz (U2) and ending near the famous Pfaueninsel in South West Berlin, where you can take a small ferry to said island and visit the park and the small castle there.
- Get aroundFerries usually have space for bike but can get crowded during peak times and good weather.
- Get aroundDespite not being a maritime city like Hamburg or Venice, Berlin does have usable waterways and the BVG run a couple of ferries, which can be accessed with regular BVG tickets.
- Get aroundMost of the ferries are of local interest only, but the Ferry line F10 covers across the Wannsee and connects to the S-Bahn at one end.
- Get aroundMore of a tourist attraction than actual practical transportation is Ferry F24, which is the only ferry operated by a rowing boat in Berlin and the only rowing boat ferry that is part of any public transit ticketing system in Germany.
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Next door to Westend
Westend is 9 km from Berlin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorfborough of Berlin, Germany2 km
- Charlottenburglocality of Berlin, Germany1.6 km
- Grunewaldlocality of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany3.8 km
- Charlottenburg-Nordlocality of Berlin2.7 km
- Halenseelocality of Berlin2.5 km
- Siemensstadtlocality of Berlin2.8 km