Grunewald - Into a suburb.

On a pleasant sunny day we decided to have a morning walk in Grunewald.

We took the S7 out to this "suburban" neighborhood. We were surprised when we got off the train to learn that this was one of the three deportation station used by the Nazis in Berlin to send the unfortunates to work, concentration, and death camps.  There were commemorative memorials here, as there are all around Berlin.  This one was in both German and English.

Grunewald was built in the 1930s after the swamps were drained. They made some pleasant little lakes from the water drained from the swamps.

It is now a very pleasant tree lined residential neighborhood with some impressive traditional house style. Due to being built in Berlin in the 30's there are quite a few very nice houses in the Bauhaus style. Here are some we liked regardless of style (some very large houses/apartment buildings were behind walls with lots of trees, so sorry no pictures).

With it's fresh new paint  and the bright sun couldn't resist taking a picture, and  it is unencumbered by wall or trees. 

This is an institute for advanced studies and this wall is actually  a wave.

Couldn't resist this with the classic columns and bright red paint. I guess that it's sort of  Roman.

This was a fairly plain apartment building with these  colored decks,  as  we were getting into a  commercial area.

We came out on Kurfursten Strasse, which runs back towards the center of town, and this.