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The Oranienburger Vorstadt is a historic district of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and contained parts of what is now Mitte

Mitte (locality)

Mitte is a central locality of Berlin in the homonymous district of Mitte. Until 2001 it was itself an autonomous district....

 and Gesundbrunnen

Gesundbrunnen

Gesundbrunnen is a locality of Berlin in the borough of Mitte. It was created as a separate entity by the 2001 administrative reform, formerly the eastern half of the former Wedding district and locality...

, in the modern district of Mitte

Mitte

Mitte is the first and most central borough of Berlin. It was created in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by the merger of the former districts of Mitte proper, Tiergarten and Wedding; the resulting borough retained the name Mitte. It is one of the two boroughs which comprises former West and...

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Overview

The district derived its name from the Oranienburger Tor in the Berlin Customs Wall

Berlin Customs Wall

The Berlin Customs Wall was a ring wall around the historic city of Berlin; the wall itself had no defence function but was used to facilitate the levying of taxes on the import and export of goods which was the primary income of many cities at the time.- History :The wall was erected...

. Today its customary to apply the name Oranienburger Vorstadt only to the part in the locality Mitte. The district ceased to exist as an administrational unit in 1920 with the Greater Berlin Act

Greater Berlin Act

The 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.-History:...

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Main sights

• Museum für Naturkunde
• Berlin Wall
  Berlin Wall
  The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
  
   memorial at Bernauer Straße
  Bernauer Straße
  Bernauer Straße is a street of Berlin situated between the localities of Gesundbrunnen and Mitte, today both belonging to the Mitte borough. It runs from the Mauerpark at the corner of Prenzlauer Berg to the Nordbahnhof...
  
  
• St. Elisabeth's church
• Chapel of Reconciliation
  Chapel of Reconciliation
  The Chapel of Reconciliation stands on the site of the old Church of Reconciliation , on Bernauer Straße in the Mitte district of Berlin.- Church of Reconciliation :...
  
  
• St. Sebastian's church
• Invalid's Cemetery
• Dorotheenstadt cemetery
• French cemetery
• Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin
  Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin
  The Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin is a Protestant cemetery of the Sophienkirche in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.-Notable interments: = An Ehrengrab awarded by the "Landes Berlin"...
  
  
• St. Elisabeth's cemetery

External links

Oranienburger Vorstadt article on bfss-berlin.de