For one week, from March 20, 2026 to March 27, 2026, we will meet for the youth exchange “Whose streets? Our streets!”. Here is the information for your arrival and details about the area where we will be staying for a week.
The event takes place at:
Youth Guesthouse am Wannsee
Badeweg 7
14129 Berlin
https://www.haus-am-wannsee.de/
The nearest train station is S-Nikolassee. From there, it’s about 700 meters into the forest, heading toward the youth hostel, but continue past it deeper into the forest (see map above).
Here are also the texts for the welcome rally:
S-Bahn station Nikolassee
From here you can get around easily. Two lines run here: S7 to the main station (towards Ahrensfelde) and S1 to the Ring, Potsdamer Platz, Unter den Linden, Friedrichstraße (towards Oranienburg).
Netto
Netto is a discount supermarket. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 7 AM – 9 PM.
Underpass
To get to the Netto supermarket, this hidden and somewhat creepy underpass is the shortest route.
Burger King
You can get meat and ketchup here. Open every day from 9 AM to 11 PM.
Our beach
We have our own private beach!
Public beach
The public beach is very nice and has a short pier. The path to it is somewhat hidden behind our house.
Forest
Don’t get lost—wild boars and lions! Also, there used to be a forced labor camp of the Reichsbahn here for 400 people.
Police
At Alemannenstraße 10 is Precinct 43 of the Berlin police.
Email: dir4a43wache@polizei.berlin.de
Phone: (030) 4664 – 443701
Emergency police: 110
Emergency fire brigade/ambulance: 112
Pharmacy
Prinz-Friedrich-Leopold-Straße 3. Closed Sunday and Tuesday. Saturday 9 AM – 1 PM. Other days 9 AM – 6:30 PM (Thursday until 7 PM).
Memorial plaque for Helene Stöcker
This was the residence of Helene Stöcker (*November 13, 1869 in Wuppertal; † February 24, 1943 in New York City), a German women’s rights activist, sexual reformer, pacifist, and publicist. As early as the German Empire, she campaigned for women’s sexual self-determination, the right to abortion, and other controversial issues. After 1914, she was one of the first bourgeois intellectuals in Germany to advocate for the right to conscientious objection. In 1921, she became a founding member of War Resisters International (WRI). From 1912, she lived here in Berlin-Nikolassee at Münchowstraße 1. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, she fled to Sweden and later to New York. There was also a forced labor camp of the Haumann company on this street.
Spanische Allee
This street has a Nazi history. The former “Wannseestraße” was renamed Spanische Allee to honor German soldiers who fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) on Hitler’s orders on the side of the coup leader and later dictator Franco. In 1937, the German “Condor Legion” bombed the village of Guernica with dive bombers. Pablo Picasso protested this war crime with his painting “Guernica” at the World’s Fair. The street was renamed in 1939 to reciprocate the “friendly feelings” of fascist Spain toward Germany upon the return of the German soldiers. In 2021, CDU, AfD, and the Greens voted against renaming it in the district assembly.
Strandbad Wannsee
Opening hours: 10 AM – 4 PM. There is a sauna; bring ID or passport.
It is the largest lakeside lido in Europe, with space for 30,000 bathers. It was founded in 1907, at a time when the Spree River was so polluted that all bathing facilities there had to close. Another reason for its construction was that the government wanted to restrict nude bathing (which was later allowed in 1942).
However, Jews were banned from entering from 1936 to 1945. The lido was not expanded further because the Nazis disliked modernist Bauhaus architecture. The director of the lido, Hermann Clajus (SPD), shot himself on March 18, 1933, in his office to avoid being taken by the SA to a “wild” concentration camp. There is said to be a memorial plaque for him on the main building. Afterward, the Nazis set up an anti-aircraft position on the playground and built a large forced labor camp (Organization Todt, motorway construction, munitions production).
In the 1950s, swimming here was life-threatening. Several bathers were killed or injured by stray bullets from the adjacent US Army training ground to the north.