Wilhelmstrasse

Wilhelmstraße
Wilhelmstrasse
	Wilhelmstraße today: anti-car bomb bollards at the British embassy
	Location within Berlin
Former name(s)	Central and southern parts:; Husarenstraße; (after 1731–1740); Wilhelmstraße; (1740–1964); Northern part:; Neue Wilhelmstraße; (1822–1964); Northern and central parts:; Otto-Grotewohl-Straße; (1964–1993); Southern part:; Wilhelmstraße; (1964–1993); Northern and central parts:; Toleranzstraße; (1991, not implemented);
Namesake	Frederick William I of Prussia
Type	Street
Length	2,400 m (7,900 ft)
Location	Berlin, Germany
Quarter	Mitte, Kreuzberg
Nearest metro station	; Brandenburger Tor; ; Mohrenstraße; ; Anhalter Bahnhof; ; Möckernbrücke; ; Hallesches Tor;
Coordinates	52°30′29″N 13°22′39″E / 52.50792°N 13.37744°E
North end	Luisenstraße; Marschall Bridge; Reichstagufer;
Major; junctions	Dorotheenstraße; Unter den Linden; Behrenstraße; Hannah-Arendt-Straße; Französische Straße; Mohrenstraße; Voßstraße; Leipziger Straße; Niederkirchnerstraße; Zimmerstraße; Kochstraße; Anhalter Straße; Puttkamerstraße; Hedemannstraße; Franz-Klühs-Straße; Stresemannstraße;
South end	Hallesches Ufer; Mehring Bridge; Mehringdamm;
Construction
Inauguration	After 1731

Wilhelmstraße, or Wilhelmstrasse (see ß; German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlmˌʃtʁaːsə]; transl. William Street) is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte and Kreuzberg districts of Berlin, Germany. Until 1945, it was recognised as the centre of the government, first of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of the unified German Reich, housing in particular the Reich Chancellery and the Foreign Office. The street's name was thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall German governmental administration: much as the term "Whitehall" is often used to signify the British governmental administration as a whole. In English, "the Wilhelmstrasse" usually referred to the German Foreign Office.