Historic center (Berlin)

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Historic districts in Berlin-Mitte as they last existed in 1920. The limits varied over time. (The districts VI to X and XIX to XXI as well as large parts of the districts V, XI, XIII, XIV, XVI and XVII are outside the district of Mitte)

I Alt-Berlin II Alt-Kölln (Spreeinsel) III Friedrichswerder IV Dorotheenstadt V Friedrichstadt XI Luisenstadt XII Neu-Kölln XIII Stralauer Vorstadt XIV Royal Town XV Spandauer Vorstadt XVI Rosenthaler Vorstadt XVII Oranienburger Vorstadt XVIII Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt Sources: Contents: Berlin address book, map base: District Office Mitte von Berlin0000
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The term historic center established itself in the 1990s for the inner districts of Berlin city ​​center. Since around 2000, the Senate Department for Urban Development has combined the former districts of Alt-Berlin , Alt-Kölln , Friedrichswerder as well as Friedrichstadt and Dorotheenstadt along the Unter den Linden street to the Brandenburg Gate below, which has made it an established term.

In addition, under the chairmanship of Hannes Swoboda , the International Expert Commission on Historic Center Berlin was founded in 2000 and commissioned to develop a usage concept for the Berlin City Palace . Under the term Humboldtforum presented by Swoboda on April 17, 2002, the commission presented the concept it had drawn up to the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing Kurt Bodewig and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit .

Concept development

The terms City East and City West, which emerged quickly after German reunification and when the city grew back together, quickly proved to be inadequate to properly characterize Berlin's inner city centers .

While City West means the center of Charlottenburg , Kurfürstendamm along with Breitscheidplatz and Tauentzienstrasse , in general and very aptly , the term City East does not exactly describe the area it refers to and is therefore misleading. It was therefore more and more superimposed and replaced by the city ​​center or the historic city center . The fact that there had been a subway station called Stadtmitte in the middle of this area in Friedrichstrasse since 1908 may have favored this choice of term .

Supplemented by the historic city center , i.e. the medieval quarters of Alt-Berlin, Alt-Kölln and Friedrichswerder (combined to form the city of Berlin in 1709), the historic center is therefore the city center including Friedrichstadt and Dorotheenstadt. In other words, the historic center stretches from the former city gates on Alexanderplatz in the east to the Brandenburg Gate in the west or from the New Gate in the north to the Hallesches Tor in the south. In the overview map of the old district of Mitte, the 7th, 8th, 12th and 13th districts do not count towards the historical center.

Web links

Commons : Quarter of the historic center of Berlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2000 - International Commission of Experts "Historical Center Berlin" . In: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, accessed on June 13, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 21 ″  E