Nollendorfplatz
Sign in to savethumb|320px|Aerial view Nollendorfplatz (colloquially called Nolle or Nolli) is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany.
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thumb|320px|Aerial view Nollendorfplatz (colloquially called Nolle or Nolli) is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany.
==History== thumb|left|Nollendorfplatz with Neues Schauspielhaus (twin-turrets) and steeple of the American Church, about 1903 The place was named on November 27 1864 after the village of Nollendorf () near Petrovice in the present-day Czech Republic, a site of the 1813 Battle of Kulm where the united forces of the Sixth Coalition defeated a French army under Dominique Vandamme. The victorious Prussian troops were led by General Friedrich von Kleist, who in turn was elevated to a "Count of Nollendorf" by King Frederick William III. The adjacent Kleiststraße leads from Nollendorfplatz to Wittenbergplatz in the west.
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