Steglitz-Zehlendorf


Steglitz-Zehlendorf is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf.

Demographics

As of 2010, the borough had a population of roughly 294,000, of whom about 70,000 were of non-German ethnicity/origin. Hence, the percentage of migrants is a bit lower than Berlin's overall average, which is at roughly 30%.
Percentage of the population with migration background
Germans without migration background/Ethnic Germans76%
Germans with migration background/Foreigners24%
– Middle Eastern/Muslim migration background 4.5%
– Polish migration background3.0%
– Yugoslavian migration background1.5%
– Afro-German/African background1.1%
– Others 14.0%

Subdivision

The Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough consists of seven localities:

Borough Assembly

At the 2016 elections for the Borough Assembly the following parties were elected:

Education

Steglitz-Zehlendorf maintains official partnerships with 21 towns, of which 10 are located within Germany and 11 in other countries.
These are:
International
Szilvásvárad, 1989
  • Bonn-Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westfalia
  • Göttingen, Lower Saxony
  • Hann. Münden, Lower Saxony
  • Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein
  • Bremerhaven, Bremen
  • Nentershausen, Hesse
  • Hagen, North Rhine-Westfalia
  • Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony
  • Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg
In 2020 Steglitz-Zehlendorf dissociated itself from its twin City Kazimierz Dolny in Polend because it declared itself an LGBT free zone. There is a debate about terminating the partnership.