Since Jan 01, 2000: District Tempelhof-Schöneberg
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The underground lines U1, U2, S6, U7 and ring train S41/42 traverse Schöneberg in west-east direction, the north-south connection is provided by U4, S1 and S2.
Further information: Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Schöneberg is more than just the district between hip Kreuzberg and sophisticated, bourgeois Wilmersdorf. Classy bars, cafés and restaurants make it a lively and dapper pubs and clubs district. The best way to experience Schöneberg is to visit the weekend Winterfeldtmarkt, possibly Berlin's most famous weekly market. Here you can purchase high-quality fruits and vegetables, flowers, cheese, effects for the home and clothes. After visiting the market sit down in one of the many cafés lining the market square. The gay and lesbian scene in the area around Fuggerstraße enriches the city with its many bars and events.
Things are more laid back on Viktoria Luise Platz or in Friedenau to the south of Schöneberg with its many villas and Wilhelminian homes. Throughout its heyday in the sixties, writers like Grass, Enzensberger, Frisch and Johnson made literary history here and S. Fischer, Rowohlt and Langenscheidt published their works. The Bavarian quarter bordering on Wilmersdorf commemorates Jews persecuted during the Third Reich.
In nearby Rathaus Schöneberg (Schöneberg town hall) John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech to isolated West Berliners in 1963. West Berlin was governed from Rathaus Schöneberg until reunification; to this day its Liberty Bell peals every midday. Possibly Berlin's most famous daughter rests in the cemetery on Stubenrauchstraße: the inimitable Marlene Dietrich, born in Schöneberg in 1901. On Kurfürstendamm's eastward prolongation Tauentzienstraße