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    Staaken (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaːkŋ̍] ) is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau. First mentioned in a 1273 deed as...
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    Berlin-Staaken is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin...
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    suburbs to the west of West Berlin (namely Falkensee, Staaken) with East Berlin, thus circumventing the centre of West Berlin. In June 1953, the Reichsbahn...
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    SC Staaken (German: Sports Club Staaken 1919 e. V) is a German sports club in Staaken, Berlin, Germany. The club was founded in 1919. The club was founded...
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    craft to fly nonstop between Berlin and New York City, about 4,000 miles (6,400 km), making the flight from Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett Field on 10/11...
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    Spandau, although the S-Bahn station is only signed as Spandau. Berlin-Staaken station Berlin Albrechtshof station "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price...
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    The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built...
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    Berlin are Hertha Berlin and Union Berlin. Hertha BSC, a founder of the DFB, played in the West German system during the Cold War. 1. FC Union Berlin...
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    line between Oebisfelde and Staaken (250 km/h or 160 mph) and the connection between Staaken and the Berlin Stadtbahn and Berlin station (60 to 160 km/h or...
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    increased traffic and the freedom of passage after the Berlin Wall fell. Heerstraße in Berlin-Staaken / Staaken-West (1951 – 1982, previously in Dallgow): Horst...
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    located 15 km southeast of Berlin, between Johannisthal and Adlershof de facto closed in 1952 officially closed 1995. Staaken Airfield, located at the most...
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    19647 (Berlin Bear in Berlin-Nikolassee) Monument of Berlin Bear located in the borough of Staaken in Spandau district located on the entry of Berlin on B5...
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    Dallgow-Döberitz, Havelpark or Staaken, Heidebergplan M36: Wilhelmstadt, Am Omnibushof ↔ U Haselhorst M37: Spandau, Waldkrankenhaus ↔ Staaken, Hahneberg M41: (Baumschulenweg)...
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    brigade were to seize the Tempelhof, Rangsdorf, Gatow, Staaken, and Oranienburg airfields. In Berlin, the Reichsbanner resistance organization identified...
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    speed of 160 km/h, which was to be used on the main line West Berlin-Hannover via Berlin-Staaken-Oebisfelde, which was to be expanded. However, the last two...
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    Berlin-Staaken. In 1945, her husband Hans-Jürgen died in an air crash, leaving Beate a 24-year-old widow with a year-old son. In April 1945, Berlin was...
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    armoured fighting vehicles (in particular Bergepanther) were built in the Berlin Staaken plant. During the buildup to, and during World War II, Demag-designed...
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    The Berlin U-Bahn (German: [ˈuː baːn]; short for Untergrundbahn, "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city...
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  • The List of railway routes in Berlin and Brandenburg provides a list of all railway routes in Brandenburg and Berlin, eastern Germany. This includes Regional-Express...
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    cities of Europe. LZ 120 begun flights between Friedrichshafen and Berlin-Staaken with a stopover in Munich. However, DELAG was delivered a major setback...
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  • flight with a long-range airliner from Berlin to New York was with a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor that flew Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett in 24 hours, 56 minutes...
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    runs from Theodor-Heuss-Platz in Berlin-Charlottenburg to the western city border of Berlin in the locality of Staaken in the borough of Spandau. It is...
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    The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV was a development of the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI. This was one of a series of large bombers called Riesenflugzeuge, intended...
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    Berlin is divided into boroughs or districts (Bezirke) for administration. The boroughs are further divided into neighborhoods (Ortsteile) which are officially...
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    wishes of her parents) she moved to Spandau in Berlin where she took flying lessons, at Berlin-Staaken airport, under the tutelage of instructor Otto...
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  • across the Alps in 1935. The demonstration at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was at Berlin-Staaken airfield on 4 August. Twenty-one pilots from seven countries...
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  • led the planning office for Zeppelinhallenbau (aircraft hangars) in Berlin Staaken. Beginning in 1919, he was member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and November...
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    room mid-voyage. The airship returned home and on 6 November flew to Berlin Staaken, where it was met by the German president, Paul von Hindenburg. Graf...
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    exclave of Mitte, then still a borough of East Berlin. This ended on 1 January 1961, when western Staaken was incorporated into then East German Falkensee...
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    next stop, Berlin Ostbahnhof. Platform B became the terminus for the Stadtbahn arriving from West Berlin to and from Wannsee and Staaken. Passengers...
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