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Tempelhof-Schöneberg is a district of Berlin. Since 2001 these two former district were merged. Both are very different. Tempelhof is a industrial and living district for families. The northern part is mainly occupied by the airport Tempelhof which is due to close in 2007. Schöneberg is younger, borders to the City West and East. It hosts several nice restaurants and bars. It is located south-west of the city center in the Mitte district and east of the Berlin/Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.

Schöneberg is the traditional centre of the homosexual scene in Berlin. Today the district is very popular with young families and middle-age singles. Old renovated apartments with stucco to affordable prices injuvenated this area. You can start to walk from U-Nollendorfplatz and head directly to the Winterfeldmarkt (lovely market, open Thursday and Sunday morning, all year). On the other days there are some people skateboarding or (very skilled!) groups of Inline-Skaters playing street hockey. Feel free to join the game!

Walking south - behind the old church - you´ll find Goltzstr with lots of small Bars and Cafes. Restaurants provide all sorts of food and prices are low, especially compared with other locations in the "touristical" center of Berlin. Around Eisenacher Str (parallel to Goltzstr.) you´ll find even more Bars and Cafes situated in the basement of nice old houses. During WW II this part of Berlin was not destroyed by bombs as much as other parts of Berlin, so you can get an impression of what "old" Berlins architecture looked like. This part is also called Bayrisches Viertel (Bavarian district), you´ll find lots of streets with names of bavarian cities. If you walk along Grunewaldstr. to the west, you´ll reach "Bayrischer Platz". Somewhere around here Albert Einstein lived once. You´ll find several memorial signs providing information about the Nazi-regimes rules against gays and jews.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Contact

Understand

Schöneberg was always a lively district of Berlin. It was no main center but the district townhall was during the Cold War the general townhall for West Berlin. The freedom bell (a gift from the American people) and several memorials from that time you will find here. At 9th October 1989 Helmut Kohl (Bundeskanzler from 1983-1998) and Willy Brandt (former Bundeskanzler) cheered from the main balcony the end of the Berlin Wall. The townhall is an emotional place for most people in Berlin (especially West Berlin). Today it is a searched middle class living area.

Get in

Schöneberg

• Nollendorf Platz (U1 and U2), Innsbrucker Platz (U4)and Eisenacher Strasse (U7)are the best places to start walking

Tempelhof

• Alt-Mariendorf

See

Schöneberg

• Winterfeldmarkt Markets on thurdays and saturdays are popular with locals. Buy a coffee or have breakfast, this is a place to watch people and being watched. Breakfast is served usually until 2-3pm
• Viktoria Luise Platz U-Bahnstation U4 will remarkable old houses and in the nights good restaurants and bars around
• Akazien-/Goltzstrasse Restaurants, bars, cafes from afghan to nepalese and thai
• Goya Historic building opposite Nollendorfplatz. Originally theater with remarkable changes of owners and users. Today a club and bar but already close to bankruptcy

Do

Buy

Eat

Schöneberg has several areas with a high density of restaurants. The two main areas that are popular with Berliners are the Winterfeldplatz with it's saturday market and Akazienstrasse with it nearby streets Akazienstrasse (closest entry point is U7 station Eisenacher Str)

• Buddha house No. 27 - Mixture of Nepalese and Thai food, cheap lunch card(from 5 Euro)! you can reserve traditional tables (sitting on couchins not on chairs), T: 030-70 50 99 59
• Gottlob No. 16 - Italian inspired kitchen with excellent weekend buffet or a la carte breakfast, T: 030-78 70 80 95
• Cafe Bilderbuch No. 28 - Cafe with newspapers and hundreds of books to rest and relax. Good cakes and sometimes on Sunday "Tanztee" (nipping tea and dancing), T:030-78 70 60 57
• Phuket No.3 - Good restaurant with original Thai kitchen (hot means hot!), T:030-78 47 015

Drink

Sleep

Contact

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