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16 districts · 235 sources · 175 places

Berlin's districts, researched

Sixteen Berlin districts, each written from dated official sources: what the area is now, what changed recently, and when it is not worth the journey. The depth is uneven and the pages say so: six districts were researched in full, and ten got a shorter entry.

Researched in full

Prenzlauer Berg

Prenzlauer Berg is an Ortsteil in the Bezirk Pankow.

25 sources29 places

Neukölln

Neukölln has two different travel fields: dense North Neukölln and the more open, mixed urban forms of the south.

30 sources22 places

Wedding

Wedding is an Ortsteil in Mitte.

13 sources7 places

Mitte

This research covers the Ortsteil Mitte at the centre of the Bezirk.

26 sources26 places

Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg is a central Ortsteil of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

22 sources30 places

Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain lies in former East Berlin between Volkspark Friedrichshain, the Spree, the Ringbahn, and Lichtenberg.

21 sources24 places
Shorter entries

Every sentence is still sourced. There is simply less of it, because these districts have less written about them by the offices and papers the research draws on.

Moabit

Moabit is a densely built Ortsteil of Mitte, enclosed by the Spree, the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal, the Westhafen canal and the Charlottenburg connecting canal.

10 sources5 places

Reinickendorf

Reinickendorf stretches across 11 Ortsteile in Berlin's north-west.

14 sources1 places

Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg is a large district with ten Ortsteile.

9 sources4 places

Spandau

Berlin's westernmost Bezirk, and nine Ortsteile spread across it.

11 sources1 places

Steglitz-Zehlendorf

Two places share one name and not much else.

12 sources2 places

Marzahn

Marzahn is an eastern Berlin Ortsteil shaped by the contrast between the preserved village core of Alt-Marzahn and the largest housing estate of the former GDR.

8 sources2 places

Köpenick

Köpenick is a large, low-density area in southeast Berlin shaped by forest and water.

9 sources3 places

Schöneberg

Dense inner-city Berlin: Gründerzeit blocks, proper squares, and around Nollendorfplatz the oldest continuously queer quarter in the city.

8 sources6 places

Treptow

This file uses Treptow for the urban river and park area around Alt-Treptow.

9 sources5 places

Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg is a western inner-city area shaped by the former City West around Kurfürstendamm, dense period housing and a quieter residential southwest.

8 sources8 places