Volkspark Wilmersdorf

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The Volkspark Wilmersdorf is located in southern Berlin, in the district of Schöneberg-Wilmersdorf, right next to the JFK square. You can get there with the U4 line (station Rathaus Schöneberg).

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The square was built and opened to the public at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries.

The Volkspark Wilmersdorf itself is a more well cultivated part of a larger park complex (containing also the Rudolph-Wilde-Park), the borders of which are marked by the Rathaus Schöneberg station to the east

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and to the east Hirschbrunnen, a hunting themed fountain with a golden deer at the top of a large column as a main piece.

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The main landmark of the park is a XIX century Jugendstil subway station, the before mentioned U Rathaus Schöneberg. It divides the park into two parts, the so to say a more classical (described here) and romantic (Rudolph-Wilde-Park).

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The station is built on the level of the park, which is below the street level. This makes it’s rooftop a kind of a bridge that pedestrians can use when moving around Schöneberg

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