about 1900 When upon the 1806
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt victorious
Napoleon moved into Berlin, he had a
military camp set up on Spandauer Berg, though he himself chose nearby
Charlottenburg Palace for accommodation. In May 1808 General
Claude Victor-Perrin, French governor of Berlin, pitched the large
Camp Napoleonbourg here, however, he folded up his tents already in November and wasteland was left behind. On the road from Charlottenburg to Spandau, the
Spandauer Bock brewery was established in 1840, together with a popular pub catering though of doubtful reputation. The
Villenkolonie Westend was developed from 1866 on as a residential area for the wealthy bourgeoisie of Berlin and named after the
West End of London. The beginnings, overshadowed by the
Austro-Prussian War, were quite modest and the first land settlement company around the Stettin merchant
Johannes Quistorp and architect
Martin Gropius collapsed in the
Panic of 1873. Nevertheless, the development was boosted by Berlin's
population pressure after the
unification of Germany and similar to other mansion colonies such as
Lichterfelde West or
Grunewald, most of the premises were overbuilt by the end of the century. The area was connected to the
Berlin Ringbahn with the inauguration of
Westend station in 1877. In 1889 a
harness racing track opened, which was relocated to Ruhleben in 1908. Westend again became a garrison town, when in the 1890s the 3rd Brigade regiment No. 3 (
Königin Elisabeth) barracks of the German
2nd Guards Infantry Division were erected on the eastern Spandauer Berg slope. On 8 June 1913, the
Deutsches Stadion was inaugurated in the northern Grunewald forest, designated as venue of the
1916 Summer Olympics that were never held due to World War I and later rebuilt as Olympiastation. ==Sights==