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Wilmersdorf
Quarter of Berlin in Germany

Wilmersdorf

Wilmersdorf is an inner-city locality of Berlin which lies south-west of the central city.

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Formerly a borough by itself, Wilmersdorf became part of the new borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf following Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Get in

Getting to Wilmersdorf

  1. 01
    Bahnhof Zoo
  2. 02
    Wittenbergplatz U1 U2 U3
  3. 03
    Savignyplatz S5 S7 S75
  4. 04
    Kurfürstendamm U1 U9

    Not Kurfürstenstraße on the same line.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Charlottenburg Palace
  2. 02
    Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
  3. 03
    Museum of Photography
  4. 04
    Käthe Kollwitz Museum

    Käthe Kollwitz's reputation as a social activist who used art as a means to express her support of pacifism was hard-won.

  5. 05
    Museum Berggruen

    Schloßstraße 1 (near Charlottenburg Palace).

  6. 06
    Bröhan Museum
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Deutsche Oper Berlin

    Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin (U Deutsche Oper), infos), +49 30 34384-343 (tickets).

  2. 02
    Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

    Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin (U Adenauer Platz), general office), +49 30 89002-3 (box office).

  3. 03
    Theater am Kurfürstendamm

    Popular theatre with TV celebrities in modern plays.

  4. 04
    Schiller Theater

    Used by the Komische Oper and temporarily as venue for the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm (im Schiller Theater).

  5. 05
    Theater des Westens
  6. 06
    Grips Theater

    Altonaer Straße 22, 10557 Berlin (U Hansaplatz), info@grips-theater.de.

Eat

Where to eat

City West is a very good place for quality and is bursting with a big variety of styles and cuisines.

How locals move

Getting around Wilmersdorf the local way

  • 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.
  • Get aroundIn an effort to become a "greener" city some of the ferries run on electricity provided by solar panels on their roofs or land based charging stations.
  • Get aroundIn addition to those public transit ferries there are tour boats doing sight seeing trips mostly along the river Spree and mostly as circular tours.
  • Get aroundIn the course of the 2017 international gardening exhibition in Berlin/East, Berlin received its first gondola lift, which stayed in operation after the exhibition closed.

From Wikivoyage: Berlin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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