- Grunewald
Grunewald (Greenwood) is both a
forest inBerlin on the east side of theHavel and a locality of the Berlin borough ofCharlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . While the name derives from the Grunewald hunting lodge of 1543, the neighbourhood developed out of a so-called "mansion colony" at the western end of theKurfürstendamm . Promoted byOtto von Bismarck theupper class of Berlin from 1880 on discovered Grunewald as an attractive site for living. Today, the social structure of Grunewald is still influenced by these origins. TheRot-Weiss Tennis Club , home of theWTA Tour German Open, has been located in the district since 1897.On June 24, 1922
Foreign Minister of Germany Walther Rathenau was assassinated by members of theOrganisation Consul in a curve of the street called "Koenigsallee." A memorial stone marks the scene of the crime.Since 1981 Grunewald is the home of the
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin . It also houses the embassies ofQatar ,Kuwait ,Laos , theRepublic of Macedonia ,Poland andSerbia .Within the forest is the artificial
Teufelsberg hill, once a listening station of the USNational Security Agency . At the shore of theHavel river theGrunewaldturm , built byFranz Schwechten in 1898, offers panoramic views of theHavelland region. The Grunewald hunting lodge nearby is officially located on the grounds of the Dahlem locality.
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