Lichtenberg

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Lichtenberg
Borough of Berlin
Coat of arms of Lichtenberg
Coat of arms
Location of Lichtenberg in Berlin
Lichtenberg is located in Germany
Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg
Coordinates: 52°32′N 13°30′E / 52.533°N 13.500°E / 52.533; 13.500Coordinates: 52°32′N 13°30′E / 52.533°N 13.500°E / 52.533; 13.500
CountryGermany
StateBerlin
CityBerlin
Subdivisions10 localities
Government
 • MayorMichael Grunst (Left)
Area
 • Total52.30 km2 (20.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2012-11-30)
 • Total268,466
 • Density5,100/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationB
WebsiteOfficial homepage

Lichtenberg (German: [ˈlɪçtn̩ˌbɛʁk] (About this soundlisten)) is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.

Overview[]

The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's two zoological gardens. During the period of Berlin's partition between West and East, Lichtenberg was the location of the headquarters of the Stasi, the East German state security 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 Wehrmacht. The complex is now the location of the Stasi Museum. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is on the site of the main remand prison of the Stasi. Additionally, Lichtenberg is the location of the German-Russian Museum, the historical venue of the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) on 8 May 1945.

Subdivision[]

Subdivisions of Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg is divided into 10 localities:

Locality
 Area
(km2)
 Inhabitants
30 June 2008 		Density
(inhabitants/km2)
1101 Friedrichsfelde
 5.8 50,010 8,622
1102 Karlshorst
 6.6 21,057 3,190
1103 Lichtenberg
 7.33 32,295 4,406
1104 Falkenberg
 3.0 1,164 388
1106 Malchow
 3.0 450 150
1107 Wartenberg
 5.31 2,433 458
1109 Neu-Hohenschönhausen
 5.32 53,698 10,094
1110 Alt-Hohenschönhausen
 10.0 41,780 4,178
1111 Fennpfuhl
 1.75 30,932 17,675
1112 Rummelsburg
 4.16 17,567 4,223

History[]

The historic village of Lichtenberg together with neighbouring Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst, Marzahn, Biesdorf, Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf was incorporated as the 17th borough of Berlin by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act.

In the 1970s, the East German government had large pre-fabricated high-rise housing estates (Plattenbau) 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-Hellersdorf by the 2001 administrative reform.

Berlin's Asiatown in the East[]

Lichtenberg is a developing center of Asian culture and dubbed the eastern Asiatown or Chinatown of Berlin. The Dong Xuan Center around Herzbergstrasse on former industrial grounds is a development quarter with many different Asian businesses, various shops, food producers and wholesalers/distributors, residential areas and cultural offers.[1]

Politics[]

Allocation of seats in the borough council of Lichtenberg (DE-2016-10-27).svg

At the 2016 elections for the parliament of the borough (Bezirksverordnetenversammlung) the following parties were elected:

Twin towns – sister cities[]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Lichtenberg is twinned with:[2]

People[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Dong Xuan Berlin Chinatown Lichtenberg
  2. ^ "Städtepartnerschaft - Lichtenberg pflegt Partnerschaften". berlin.de (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 8 February 2021.

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