Kielgan district

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Villa Geisberg in the Ahornstraße, today the embassy of Croatia

The Kielgan district is part of Lutzow district in Berlin district of Schoeneberg between Nollendorfplatz and Lützowstraße.

The Kielgan quarter was named after the gardening and landowner Georg Friedrich Kielgan (actually: Kilian , born April 13, 1807, † February 17, 1876), who owned larger pieces of land near what is now Nollendorfplatz. From 1867 Kielgan had a residential area built on his property for the wealthy classes. For this purpose, according to the plans of the master builder Otto Wuttke - unusual for Berlin - small access roads were laid out and single and double country houses were built. The development soon began to encroach on the neighboring Charlottenburg area. A petition from the Charlottenburg residents of the Kielgan district to the Minister of the Interior on May 18, 1880 with the request for incorporation into the city of Berlin failed. Even with the entry into force of the law on the formation of the new city of Berlin on October 1, 1920, Charlottenburg - now a district of Greater Berlin  - remained unaffected in its boundaries. Only when the administrative boundaries changed in 1938 did the Charlottenburg part of the Kielgan district become part of the Schöneberg district (now: Tempelhof-Schöneberg district ).

The Kielgan district, which has now largely been destroyed, is an important early example of the planned development of areas for country houses and villas that began as early as the 1860s.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  E