- Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of
Berlin ,Germany . InBerlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough ofHohenschönhausen .Lichtenberg contains the
Tierpark Berlin , the larger of Berlin's two zoological parks. Lichtenberg was also the site of the extensive headquarters complex of theStasi , the East German intelligence service. The complex is now a museum.TheBerlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is on the site of the main remand prison of the Stasi. Some areas of the Lichtenberg locality around the "Weitlingstraße" street are notorious for being a Neo-Nazi stronghold of Berlin.The Hans-und-Hilde-Coppi-Oberschule is situated in the south of Lichtenberg. It is one of Berlin's best Gymnasiums(secondary school).
Localities
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Friedrichsfelde
*Karlshorst
* Lichtenberg
* Falkenberg
* Malchow
* Wartenberg
*Neu-Hohenschönhausen
*Alt-Hohenschönhausen
*Fennpfuhl
* RummelsburgHistory
The central locality of the borough is the historic village of Lichtenberg, today also called "Alt-Lichtenberg", that was founded by German settlers about 1230. The settlement around the
fieldstone church of the 13th century was first mentioned in a 1288 deed, its estates were acquired by the neighbouring City of Berlin in 1391."Alt-Lichtenberg" suffered severely during the
Thirty Years' War and remained a small village at the Berlin gates until in the late 18th century Prussian noblemen like generalWichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf built their residences here. In 1815 the Lichtenberg estate became a property of the Prussian chancellorKarl August von Hardenberg .The village came to be a residential area and a suburb of Berlin from the mid 19th century on. A new town hall was erected in 1898 and in 1907 Lichtenberg received
town privileges . Nevertheless it was incorporated as the 17th borough of Berlin shortly afterwards by the 1920Greater Berlin Act .In the 1970s the East German government had large
housing estate s ("Plattenbau ") built in the east of the Lichtenberg borough. These parts were separated as the new borough ofMarzahn in 1979, split into the two boroughs of Marzahn andHellersdorf in 1986 and again merged asMarzahn-Hellersdorf by the 2001 administrative reform.Twin towns
The Lichtenberg borough has five twin towns:
*flagicon|Mozambique 5. district,Maputo ,Mozambique since 1995
*flagicon|PolandBiałołęka ,Warsaw ,Poland since 2000
*flagicon|RussiaKaliningrad ,Russia since 2001
*flagicon|PolandHajnówka County ,Poland since 2001
*flagicon|LithuaniaJurbarkas district municipality ,Lithuania since 2003External links
* [http://www.berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg/englisch/index_e.html Official homepage]
* [http://www.berlin.de/english/ Official homepage of Berlin]
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