What is Schöneberg?
{{otheruses}} [[Image:Berlin Tempelhof-Schoeneberg Schoeneberg.png|thumb|Location of Schöneberg within the Tempelhof-Schöneberg borough of Berlin]] [[Image:Berlin-schoeneberg rathaus 20051202 049 part.jpg|thumb|Rathaus Schöneberg]] [[Image:Rote Insel2.JPG|thumb|Rote Insel: [[Gründerzeit]] building]] '''Schöneberg''' is a [[wikt:locality|locality]] of [[Berlin]]. Until [[Berlin's 2001 administrative reform]] it was a separate borough including the locality of [[Friedenau]]. Together with the former borough of [[Tempelhof]] it is now part of the new [[Boroughs of Berlin|borough]] of [[Tempelhof-Schöneberg]]. ==History== The village was first documented in 1264 by [[Rulers of Brandenburg|Margrave]] Otto III of [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]]. In 1751 [[Bohemia]]n [[weaving|weavers]] founded '''Neu-Schöneberg''' also known as '''Böhmisch-Schöneberg''', along the current Hauptstraße. During the [[Seven Years' War]] on 7 October 1760 Schöneberg and its village church were completely destroyed by a fire due to the joint attack on Berlin by [[Austria]]n and [[Russia]]n troops. '''Alt & Neu Schöneberg''' were combined as one entity in 1874 and received [[town privileges]] in 1898. In 1920 Schöneberg became a part of [[Greater Berlin Act|Greater Berlin]]. Its town hall [[Rathaus Schöneberg]] was completed in 1914. After [[World War II]] it served as the city hall of [[West Berlin]] until 1991 when the administration of the reunited City of Berlin moved back to the [[Rotes Rathaus]] in [[Mitte]]. ==Notable Individuals== ===Born in Schöneberg=== *[[Blixa Bargeld]], [[musician]], born 12 January 1959 *[[Marlene Dietrich]], [[actress]], born 27 December 1901, Sedanstraße 65 (today: Leberstraße 65), Rote Insel, died 6 May 1992 in [[Paris]], buried in the [[Städtischer Friedhof III]] cemetery, Friedenau *[[Gisèle Freund]], [[photographer]], born 19 December 1908, Bayerisches Viertel, died 31 March 2000 in [[Paris]] *[[Wilhelm Furtwängler]], [[Conducting|conductor]], born 25 January 1886, Maaßenstraße 1 at [[Nollen