Berlin - Steglitz
Steglitz
U9 underground, S1 and S25 city-trains connect Steglitz to the city centre. Car drivers reach downtown as fast as Berlin’s surroundings via Schlossstraße, and on its south-west extension “Unter den Eichen” to Berlin’s surroundings.
Steglitz’ mixture of close-to-centre quarters, exclusive residential areas, suburbs and green is typical for Berlin’s South. The district’s axis is the Schlossstraße, one of the city’s major shopping avenues. Around the clinker building of the old and the tower block of the new townhall there is an independent, vital centre with restaurants, cinemas and the Schlossparktheater; the sightseeings like the pretty Wrangelschloss palace with its small park, nowadays used for cultural events, concentrate here. The Botanical Garden, home of more than 20,000 different species, hosts exotic plants within its big glass greenhouses also in the wintertime. Parts of the bourgeois, urban Friedenau (see also Schöneberg) belong to Steglitz. In the South there is Lichterfelde with its city mansions from the 19th century, whereas the district’s West is coined by the Freie Universität.
City-trains S7 and S1 hook up the favoured jaunting target to the city centre superbly; Dahlem is traversed by the U1 underground. Wannsee, terminus of the S1, is also a long-distance station.
