Lichterfelde (Berlin)
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Lichterfelde is a locality in the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin, Germany.
The Prussian village Lichtervelde was founded in the 13th century by Flemish settlers. It saw considerable growth in the 19th century when the two Villenkolonien of Lichterfelde West and Lichterfelde-Ost were founded: two elegant settlements for wealthy Berliners made up completely of villas or mansion houses. The settlements and the historical villages of Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf where united in 1880 under the name of Groß-Lichterfelde (Greater-Lichterfelde).
Lichterfelde was chosen seat of the Prussian Main Military academy (Hauptkadettenanstalt) in 1882 and became home to many famous German noble families that were linked to the Prussian Army.
In 1920 Lichterfelde became part of Greater Berlin. While from 1933 on the ground of the military academy in Lichterfelde was the home of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, the Kreisauer Kreis resistance group around Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke held its secret meetings in Wartenburg's apartement on Hortensienstraße 50, Lichterfelde-West during the Third Reich. Generaloberst Ludwig Beck had his house on Goethestraße 24 in Lichterfelde-Ost.
From 1945 to 1994 the Hauptkadettenanstalt was used as "Andrews Barracks" by the United States Army Berlin, today it belongs to the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) in Koblenz. Two other kasernes "Roosevelt Barracks" on Gardeschützenweg and "Mc Nair Barracks", a former Telefunken manufacturing plant on Goerzallee were nearby.
While Lichterfelde-Ost was in parts badly hit by World War II, Lichterfelde-West is still largely intact and today one of the prime residential areas of Berlin. The Lichterfelde locality also houses the Berlin Botanical Garden and the Campus Benjamin Franklin, built in 1968 and today part of the Charité university hospital.
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