The Murellenberge (often referred to as 'Murellenberg', formerly: Morellenberge) are part of the Teltownordband, which forms the northernmost spur of the Teltow plateau to the Berliner Urstromtal.

The Installation Memorial to the Murdered by Nazi Military Justice on the Murellenberg by the artist Patricia Pisani from 2002 commemorates the victims.

Geologically, the Murellenberge and the Grunewald belong to the Teltow plateau, which ends to the west in the Havel lowlands and to the north in the Berlin glacial valley, through which the Spree flows.

The Havel separates the soft glacial Teltow plateau from the Nauener Platte to the northwest with Gatow and parts of Wilhelmstadt.

In the area around Schildhorn, the Pichelsberg and the Murellenberge, the advancing ice has also severely compressed (disturbed) the sands, so that a relief of a thrust/terminal moraine determines the landscape here.

The northern edge of the Teltow runs northwards from the Murellenberge along the Murellenschlucht gorge and turns north-east shortly after reaching the Ruhleben meadow.

[3] Today's dry valley Murellen Gorge is a former dead ice channel that cuts up to 30 meters deep into the hilly landscape.

With the construction of the high-rise housing estate on Angerburger Allee in the 1960s, the direct green connection between the Murellenberge/Schanzenwald area and the Grunewald was finally lost.

[19] The state of Berlin considers the natural monument to be part of the hilly forest area and includes it in its description of the Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald nature reserve: "In its extent, the structurally rich mixed deciduous forest, which extends from the Murellenteich to the west over the Murellenschlucht, the Murellenberg and the adjacent Schanzenwald to the north to the police area, is a special feature by Berlin standards.

"[5] In the Biotop- and Artenschutz, the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection lists the pond under the heading "Naturschutzgebiete/Naturdenkmale mit flächenhafter Ausprägung" as type "PfW".

[13][21] The Murellenteich was connected to the Spandauer Bock restaurant through an underpass beneath the Hamburger Stadtbahnanschluss, which developed from a small pub opened in 1840 by the brewer Conrad Bechmann.

To the east, the magazine publisher Ludwig von Schaeffer-Voit had Carl Schwatlo build the so-called Schloss Ruhwald in 1867/1868 and created a spacious Landschaftspark, today's Ruhwaldpark; in 1952, the classicist villa was demolished.

[...] Its outstanding location can no longer be experienced because all the views have been overgrown.The closest the Teltownordkante came to the Spree was another 600 meters northeast at a former shooting lodge built in 1818 west of today's Rohrdammbrücke.

[26] Although this fortification method was outdated by the end of the 19th century at the latest, the Schanzenwald was used as a military and later police training ground and shooting range for around 150 years without interruption.

On the Teltower Schanze sports ground (tennis court) at the corner of Havelchaussee and Elsgrabenweg, there is still a denkmalgeschützter (redoubt, ditch, hollow shelter and fortifications)[27] of the reduit building.

[28] The Berlin Forestry Administration unsealed and renaturalized an area of 9,400 square meters, including 6,850 m2 of paths and squares made of asphalt, concrete and concrete block paving as well as 2,000 m2 of solid buildings such as wooden and metal barracks and removed 2,600 meters of fencing, 2,000 m2 of shooting ranges and walls as well as 20,800 tons of waste and demolition, 6,500 tons of which were hazardous.

[34][35] In addition to the urban interventions in the natural environment, the execution site of the Nazi military justice system shaped the history of the uninhabited Murellenberge.

After a site inspection in 1995 with contemporary witnesses and a topographical analysis, an area near today's ammunition depot or a sand pit in the Schanzenwald forest are more likely to be the location.

File studies revealed that only politically motivated death sentences were among them, as in the case of the professional officer and Resistance fighter of the 20 July 1944 Gustav Heisterman von Ziehlberg.

[39][40] In 2000, the Senate Department for Urban Development invited nine artists to take part in a competition for the Memorial to the Murdered of the Nazi Military Justice on the Murellenberg.

Starting from Glockenturmstraße, Patricia Pisani erected 104 traffic mirrors along the forest path, the number of which is condensed towards the probably authentic shooting site at the ammunition depot.

"[42] The 15 mirrors with laser engraved The 15 mirrors with laser-engraved texts refer to the history, the place, the Nazi judgments and laws and gain an increasingly personal level towards the site of the events with quotes from direct experiences of contemporary witnesses, including:[43] A verdict was read out and came to me in fragments The corporal [...] years old [...] for desertion [...] to death [...], the petty officer [...] years old [...] sentenced [...] for cowardice before the enemy [...] to death by firing squad [...]At the inauguration of the installation on May 8, 2002, Ludwig Baumann, Wehrmacht deserter and chairman of the Federal Association of Victims of National Socialist Military Justice, introduced his speech with a quote from Hitler: "The soldier can die, the deserter must die.

Instead of Wolfgang Göschel's design being realized on the path to the Waldbühne, which was clearly visible to many, the Senate opted for memorials that were "hidden in the forest".

In the meantime, the entire area of the former ammunition depot up to the fence of the Fighting City has been completely cleared, renaturalized and opened to the public.

[5] The ramparts of the former shooting ranges structure the redoubt forest, in which biotope qualities have been able to develop relatively undisturbed due to over 150 years of enclosure.

"[13] There is also a high proportion of deadwood,[5] which is of great importance for biocoenoses in the bark, in the wood, in tree hollows and in special structures such as sap flows or burns.

In 1999, ornithologists discovered a breeding pair of Common Rail at the Murellenteich pond, which is on the Red List in the early warning stage (as of 2006).

Furthermore, wild boars, roe deers, red foxes and small mammals such as the wood shrew colonize the Murellenberge, the Murellenschlucht and the Schanzenwald.

[49] Otherwise, the responsible Senate Department for Urban Development wants to leave the area to its own devices as far as possible and limit measures to traffic safety and maintenance of the path network.

In order to make the unity of the landscape tangible again, the Senate Department for Urban Development proposed a Höhenweg on the Teltownordkante in 2004 in a Planwerk Westraum Berlin, which would connect the Murellenberge with Charlottenburg Palace Park via the Murellenteich.