Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
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. In
Berlin's 2001 administrative reformBerlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs , which are administrative units with political rights comparable to incorporated communities in the rest of Germany ....
it absorbed the former borough of
HohenschönhausenHohenschönhausen was a borough of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.-Overview:It was created by splitting the localities of Hohenschönhausen, Wartenberg, Falkenberg and the eastern part of Malchow off the 1920 Weißensee borough. In 2001 it was absorbed by the...
.
The district contains the
Tierpark BerlinThe Tierpark Berlin is one of the two zoos in Berlin, Germany. It is located in Friedrichsfelde, on the former grounds of Friedrichsfelde Palace, which is situated within the zoo. At 160 hectares it is Europe's largest zoological garden...
in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's two zoological gardens. Lichtenberg was also the site of the extensive headquarters complex of the
StasiThe Ministry for State Security, The Ministry for State Security, The Ministry for State Security, (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, commonly known as the Stasi [ˈʃtazi] (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official secret police of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered in...
, the East German intelligence service. Prior to the establishment of the GDR it housed the main office of the Soviet Military Administration in Berlin, and before that it was an officers' mess of the
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52.30 km² |
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257,539 (2007) |
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4,925 inhabitants per km² |
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Christina Emmrich (The LeftThe Left , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag....
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| Parliament of Borough (BVV): |
The Left Party.PDS 23, SPD 17, CDU The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany....
5, Alliance '90/The GreensThe Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany which originated from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir...
3, NPDThe National Democratic Party of Germany , is a pan-German neo-fascist political party. It was founded in 1964 as a successor to the German Reich Party and is classified as being on the far right of the political spectrum...
3, FDP 2, WASG 2 (last election 2006) |
Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
. In
Berlin's 2001 administrative reformBerlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs , which are administrative units with political rights comparable to incorporated communities in the rest of Germany ....
it absorbed the former borough of
HohenschönhausenHohenschönhausen was a borough of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.-Overview:It was created by splitting the localities of Hohenschönhausen, Wartenberg, Falkenberg and the eastern part of Malchow off the 1920 Weißensee borough. In 2001 it was absorbed by the...
.
Overview
The district contains the
Tierpark BerlinThe Tierpark Berlin is one of the two zoos in Berlin, Germany. It is located in Friedrichsfelde, on the former grounds of Friedrichsfelde Palace, which is situated within the zoo. At 160 hectares it is Europe's largest zoological garden...
in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's two zoological gardens. Lichtenberg was also the site of the extensive headquarters complex of the
StasiThe Ministry for State Security, The Ministry for State Security, The Ministry for State Security, (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, commonly known as the Stasi [ˈʃtazi] (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official secret police of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered in...
, the East German intelligence service. Prior to the establishment of the GDR it housed the main office of the Soviet Military Administration in Berlin, and before that it was an officers' mess of the
WehrmachtWehrmacht was the name of the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ....
. The complex is now the
German-Russian Museum Berlin-KarlshorstThe German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is dedicated to German-Soviet and German-Russian relations with a focus on the German-Soviet war 1941-1945.- The museum building :...
. The
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen MemorialThe Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is a museum and memorial that was openened in 1994 on the site of the main torture prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, the Stasi....
is on the site of the main remand prison of the Stasi. Some areas of Lichtenberg such as
Weitlingstraße (street) are notorious for being a Neo-Nazi stronghold of Berlin.
Subdivision
Lichtenberg is divided into 10 localities:
Locality
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Inhabitants
30 June, 2008 |
Density
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1101 Friedrichsfelde
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5.8 |
50,010 |
8,622 |
| 1102 Karlshorst Karlshorst is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It houses a harness racing track and the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin , the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.-History:Established in 1895 as the...
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6.6 |
21,057 |
3,190 |
| 1103 Lichtenberg Lichtenberg is a locality of Berlin in the homonymous district of Lichtenberg. Until 2001 it was an autonomous district with the localities of Fennpfuhl, Rummelsburg, Friedrichsfelde and Karlshorst.- History :...
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7.33 |
32,295 |
4,406 |
1104 Falkenberg
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3.0 |
1,164 |
388 |
1106 Malchow
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3.0 |
450 |
150 |
1107 Wartenberg
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5.31 |
2,433 |
458 |
1109 Neu-Hohenschönhausen
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5.32 |
53,698 |
10,094 |
1110 Alt-Hohenschönhausen
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10.0 |
41,780 |
4,178 |
1111 Fennpfuhl
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1.75 |
30,932 |
17,675 |
1112 Rummelsburg
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4.16 |
17,567 |
4,223 |
History
The historic village of Lichtenberg together with neighbouring Friedrichsfelde,
KarlshorstKarlshorst is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It houses a harness racing track and the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin , the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.-History:Established in 1895 as the...
,
MarzahnMarzahn is a locality within the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin.Berlin's 2001 administrative reform led to the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf fusing into a single new borough...
, Biesdorf,
HellersdorfHellersdorf is a locality in the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin. Between 1986 and Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was a borough in its own right, consisting of the current area of Hellersdorf as well as Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf. Before German reunification in 1989 it was part of...
, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf was incorporated as the 17th borough of Berlin by the 1920
Greater Berlin ActThe Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin....
.
In the 1970s the East German government had large pre-fabricated high-rise
housing estateA housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance...
s (
PlattenbauPlattenbau is the German word for a building whose structure is constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. The word is a compound of Platte and Bau...
) built in the east of the Lichtenberg borough. This area was separated off and became the new borough of Marzahn, which included Biesdorf, Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf in 1979. In 1986 this district in turn was split into the two boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf in 1986, and again merged as
Marzahn-HellersdorfMarzahn-Hellersdorf is the tenth borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf.-Geography:It is situated in the northeast of Berlin...
by the 2001 administrative reform.
Twin towns
The Lichtenberg borough has five twin towns: 5. district,
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