Grunewald Forest

Grunewald is the largest forest area in the west of Berlin and a popular destination for walkers and cyclists. The forest is crisscrossed by lakes.

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Grunewald Forest is a huge wooded area intersected by lakes
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View from Teufelsberg towards the south
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In winter, you can ski in Grunewald Forest.
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The Grunewald Tower in the middle of Berlin's Grunewald Forest is a monument, observation tower and excursion destination at the same time.
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The "Platform 17" memorial near the current Grunewald S-Bahn station commemorates the first deportation of Jewish Berliners to a Nazi death camp in 1941.
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Grunewald Hunting Lodge is the oldest preserved palace in Berlin. Once built as a base for hunters, it now displays an extensive exhibition about the palace's history and hunting itself.
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Swans spread their wings in the light of the setting sun on May 21, 2014 in Berlin's Grunewald district on the Havel river.
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Lake Königssee in Grunewald
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Part of the former U.S. listening station on Teufelsberg in Grunewald forest
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S-Bahn station Berlin-Grunewald
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"Cemetery of the Nameless" in Berlin's Grunewald forest. More than 2,000 people who comitted suicide lie here. Almost all of them have been forgotten forever. Next to the many suicides, a mass grave houses the remains of about 1,200 people who were torn apart by bombs in the last days of the war in 1945.