Wilhelmstadt
{{distinguish|Willemstad (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox German location
|name = Wilhelmstadt
|name_local =
|image_photo = Luftbild Spandau wilhelmstadt.jpg
|image_caption = Aerial view
|type = Quarter
|City = Berlin
|image_coa =
|coordinates = {{coord|52|31|32|N|13|10|34|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|state = Berlin
|borough = Spandau
|divisions = 3 zones
|elevation = 40
|area = 10.4
|pop_ref = {{Population Germany|key=11|datref=QUELLE}}
|population = {{Population Germany|key=110509}}
|population_as_of = {{Population Germany|key=11|datref=STAND}}
|postal_code = 13593, 13595
|area_code =
|licence = B
|year = 1945
|plantext = Location of Wilhelmstadt in Spandau district and Berlin
|image_plan = Berlin Spandau Wilhelmstadt.png
|website =
}}
Wilhelmstadt ({{IPA|de|ˈvɪlhɛlmsˌʃtat|-|De-Wilhelmstadt.ogg}}) is a German locality (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the borough (Bezirk) of Spandau.
History
In the year 1945 the allied armed forces from the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom accomplished an exchange of territory, among the area of Seeburg in Spandau.{{in lang|de}} [http://www.berlin.de/ba-spandau/derbezirk/geschichtliches/geschichte.html Infos and historical overview about Spandau district] This new quarter was crossed, from 1961 to 1989 by the Berlin Wall, due to its position at the borders of West Berlin with East Germany. It became an autonomous Ortsteil in 2003, separated (with Hakenfelde and Falkenhagener Feld) from the one of Spandau.
Geography
=Overview=
Wilhelmstadt is situated in the western suburb of Berlin, close to the central area of Spandau. It borders with the Brandenburg municipality of Dallgow-Döberitz (Havelland district) and with the localities of Staaken, Spandau, Gatow, Westend and Grunewald (both in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf).
Traversed by the Havel river, Wilhelmshaven counts a former floodplain named Tiefwerder Wiesen and the lakes Scharfe Lanke ({{IPA|de|ˈʃaʁfə ˈlaŋkə|-|De-Scharfe Lanke.ogg}}), Grimnitzsee, Pichelssee, Südparkteich and part of Stößensee ({{IPA|de|ˈʃtøːsn̩ˌzeː|-|De-Stößensee.ogg}}). The peninsula of Pichelswerder, part of its Ortslage Pichelsdorf ({{IPA|de|ˈpɪçl̩sˌdɔʁf|-|De-Pichelsdorf.ogg}}) borders with the Grunewald forest,{{in lang|de}} [http://www.forst-grunewald.de/html/pichelswerder.html Source and description on www.forst-grunewald.de] and is separated from the rest of it by the Stößensee.
=Subdivision=
Wilhelmstadt is divided into 3 zones (Ortslagen):
Transport
The locality is not served by urban railways but its nearest station, Berlin-Spandau (S+U-Bahn and long-distance transport), is not too far from its residential area. In a plan to expand the U-Bahn it has been projected to prolong the U7 line from the terminus "Rathaus Spandau" to Staaken, with 3 new stops in the quarter, as of Seeburger Straße, Wilhelmstadt and Heerstraße-Wilhelmstraße.{{in lang|de}} [http://www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de/ Details on "Berliner Untergrundbahn"] (See "U-Bahnprojekte" column, click on "U-Bahnprojekte 200-km-Plan" and search for "U7")See U7 map with projects included
Photogallery
File:Hahneberg view to Staaken.JPG|View of the Bullengraben building complex from the hill of Hahneberg
File:Tiefwerder Wiesen 4.JPG|Tiefwerder Wiesen
File:Stoessensee B-Westend 07-2017 img2.jpg|Stössensee
File:Grimnitzsee 3 Berlin.JPG|Grimnitzsee
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{commons-inline|Category:Berlin-Wilhelmstadt|Wilhelmstadt}}
- {{in lang|de}} [https://www.berlin.de/ba-spandau/ueber-den-bezirk/ortsteile/wilhelmstadt/artikel.190127.php Wilhelmstadt page on www.berlin.de]
{{Boroughs of Berlin}}