Lichtenberg
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| Area: | 52.30 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 257,539 (2007) |
| Population density: | 4,925 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | Official homepage |
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| Mayor of Borough: | Christina Emmrich (The Left) |
| Parliament of Borough (BVV): | The Left Party.PDS 23, SPD 17, CDU 5, Alliance '90/The Greens 3, NPD 3, FDP 2, WASG 2 (last election 2006) |
Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.
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Overview
The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's two zoological gardens. Lichtenberg was also the site of the extensive headquarters complex of the Stasi, 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 Wehrmacht. The complex is now the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial 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 | 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.
Twin towns
The Lichtenberg borough has five twin towns:
5. district, Maputo, Mozambique since 1995
Białołęka, Warsaw, Poland since 2000
Kaliningrad, Russia since 2001- Hajnówka County, Poland since 2001
Jurbarkas district municipality, Lithuania since 2003
See also
External links
Media related to Lichtenberg at Wikimedia Commons- Official homepage
- Official homepage of Berlin
Coordinates: 52°32′N 13°30′E / 52.533°N 13.5°E
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