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Here you will find information on directions and the wannseeFORUM location in an old villa colony in Berlin’s green Wannsee district.

Arrival/Directions

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T R A I N / B U S

Take the train or bus to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Then take the S-Bahn to Bahnhof Wannsee. Some regional trains stop directly at Bahnhof Wannsee. Cross the street. Take the bus from there bus numbers 316, 318, 118. (Attention: in the direction of Drewitz/Sterncenter) and get off at bus stop Rathaus Wannsee. Walk back a bit on Königstraße, then cross the road and turn into Hohenzollernstraße and walk to the end of the street (approx. 8 minutes). wannseeFORUM is located on your right. A taxi from Bahnhof Wannsee costs approximately € 7.00.

A I R P L A N E

From Tegel Airport, take the bus number 109 towards Budapester Straße and get off at Stuttgarter Platz. Walk 100 m to S-Bahnhof Charlottenburg. From there take the S-Bahn towards Potsdam and get off at Bahnhof Wannsee (approx. 15 minutes). Further bus connection: see TRAIN.

C A R

Autobahn A 115 until exit Steglitz/Wannsee. Turn into Potsdamer Chaussee (the street later changes its name to Königstraße), continue straight ahead in the direction of Potsdam. When you see a yellow house (“Schreibwaren Schröder”) on the left, turn left into Hohenzollernstraße.

Wannsee and the surrounding area

wannseeFORUM is located in Berlin’s Wannsee district in an old villa colony close to Potsdam. Already around 1900 the “bankers’ railway” connected the city of Potsdam and Potsdamer Platz in the center of Berlin via Wannsee. Today two S-Bahn lines and the regional train line run from Wannsee to the city center, making it possible to get to Alexanderplatz in 45 minutes by bus and train. You can go by bus to the famous Glienicke Bridge. Beyond the “most secret of all official border crossings” of the Cold War, you enter the city of Potsdam. Not far from the border strip you can visit the Cecilienhof Castle where the Allies concluded the “Potsdam Agreements” on the future of Germany. The castles and gardens of Potsdam invite for a long walk, from Sanssouci Castle to the newly renovated Pfingstberg.

A little detour to Peacock Island (Pfaueninsel) is worthwhile, too. It can be reached by bus and ferry.

The House of the Wannsee Conference (Haus der Wannseekonferenz) is located on the banks of the big Wannsee. Here an exhibition documents the conference that took place in 1942, planning the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” and the Holocaust. Almost next door is the former summer house of the artist Max Liebermann. Here he found the necessary peace and tranquility from the bustling city life, until the idyll of the old villa colony was destroyed when the Nazis assumed power.