Wilhelmstraße
Sign in to saveWilhelmstraße, or Wilhelmstrasse (see ß; ; ) is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte and Kreuzberg districts of Berlin, Germany. Until 1945, it was recognised as the centre of the government, first of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of the unified German Reich, housing in particular the Reich Chancellery and the Foreign Office. The street's name was thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall German governmental administration: much as the term "Whitehall" is often used to signify the British governmental administration as a whole. In English, "the Wilhelmstrasse" usually referre
Key facts
- Street.direction_b
- South
- Street.inauguration_date
- After
- Street.name
- Wilhelmstraße
- Street.alternate_name
- Wilhelmstrasse
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- Wilhelmstraße Berlin Britische Botschaft.jpg
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- Wilhelmstraße today: anti-car bomb bollards at the British embassy
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- Wilhelmstraße today: anti-car bomb bollards at the British embassy
- Street.namesake
- Frederick William I of Prussia
- Street.type
- Street
- Street.location
- Berlin, Germany
- Street.quarter
- Mitte, Kreuzberg
- Street.direction_a
- North
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- Weimar Republic and Nazi years
- Cold War
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Wilhelmstraße, or Wilhelmstrasse (see ß; ; ) is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte and Kreuzberg districts of Berlin, Germany. Until 1945, it was recognised as the centre of the government, first of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of the unified German Reich, housing in particular the Reich Chancellery and the Foreign Office. The street's name was thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall German governmental administration: much as the term "Whitehall" is often used to signify the British governmental administration as a whole. In English, "the Wilhelmstrasse" usually referred to the German Foreign Office.
==Course== The Wilhelmstraße runs south from the Spree riverside through the historic Dorotheenstadt quarter to the Unter den Linden boulevard near Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate, where it takes on a line slightly east of south through adjacent Friedrichstadt, until its juncture with Stresemannstraße near Hallesches Tor in Kreuzberg, an overall distance of about .