Did you know ... Berlin still has about 36,000 Gaslights?

The streetlighting in Berlin still shows the former division of the city. The majority of the streetlighting system was destroyed by allied bombing during the war. East Berlin rebuilt it using electricity with no real threat of being cut off. West Berlin with the Berlin Blockade in mind decided to keep the gaslights in operation as the gas could be produced using stores of coal for a while even when cut off supplies.

Of course people are preferring the tone of light over modern neon light so the city jumped a step and is going straight to LED light which imitates the shape and tone of gaslights except in protected areas where the gaslights will be kept in operation despite the fact that their energy consumption is at about 7 times the level of the LEDs.

When you drive or walk around the city you will not even recognize the modern versions of the gaslights.

Berlin Lichterfelde and Its Property Outlook 2018

Like many boroughs around the centre of Berlin, Lichterfelde only became part of "Greater Berlin" in 1920 to join the district of Steglitz which recently was joined with the district of Zehlendorf to form the new borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

But even Lichterfelde was made up of smaller parts from Dahlem, the home of Berlin's Free University, to Lichterfelde West with Villas and the Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, the Berlin Botanical Garden and the former US Allied McNair Barracks, and to Lichterfelde Ost with more simple residential areas.
All these areas have kept their individuality with distinct local centres for schools, doctors, shopping and services which provide a focal point for identification with the immediate environment, called "Kiez" in German.

Von Alexrk2 - own work, using OpenStreetMap data, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21950816

 Looking at the housing market for the area it reflects the diversity of its history. It covers many of the various rent levels with Lichterfelde's corner of Dahlem and Lichterfelde-West being in the second tier and the rest in tiers four and five out of eight.

Source: Housing Market Report Berlin 2017 with Housing Cost Atlas, BerlinHyp + CBRE

The rent levels are shown in this table of Housing Market Data provided in the Housing Market Report 2017.

Source: Housing Market Report Berlin 2017 with Housing Cost Atlas, BerlinHyp + CBRE

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