Wilmersdorf: Leon-Jessel-Platz

Leon-Jessel-Platz is a residential square in a quieter urban area, surrounded by apartment buildings and greenery. The defining local feature of Leon-Jessel-Platz is the relationship between the open square, its surrounding façades, paths and the streets that feed into it. How Leon-Jessel-Platz is used over the course of the day depends on changes in seating, greenery, pedestrian movement and the uses at the edges of the space. Leon-Jessel-Platz lies in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, about 6.7 km southwest of central Berlin. Leon-Jessel-Platz merges gradually into Nikolsburger Platz and Barstraße; building scale, street activity and open space change before any clear boundary is felt. The immediate streets and open spaces give Leon-Jessel-Platz a recognisable local identity of its own. Together, these elements make a clear public focus for the surrounding streets central to the identity of Leon-Jessel-Platz.