Administrative division of Berlin

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Bezirk Mitte Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Bezirk Pankow Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Bezirk Spandau Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf Bezirk Tempelhof-Schöneberg Bezirk Neukölln Bezirk Treptow-Köpenick Bezirk Marzahn-Hellersdorf Bezirk Lichtenberg Bezirk Reinickendorf Brandenburg
The 12 districts and 96 districts of Berlin

The current administrative structure of Berlin has existed since January 1, 2001, when Berlin was divided into twelve districts through an administrative reform , which have the function of administrative districts and form the lower part of the two-tier public administration .

According to Article 66, Paragraph 2 of the Berlin Constitution , the districts fulfill their tasks according to the principles of self-administration. The district administrations are primarily responsible for matters on site in the districts, such as culture, green spaces or schools. The districts are divided into 96 districts .

General

The district self-government has constitutional status (Articles 68–77 of the Berlin Constitution ). It is divided into two administrative bodies, the District Assembly (BVV) and the District Office (BA). BVV than directly by the inhabitants of the district elected representatives ( parliament ) of the "parliamentary" part, the district office leads the administration. Each district office consists of the district mayor (full-time, paid according to the B6 federal salary regulations ) and four district councilors (paid according to the B4 federal salary regulations ). The districts of Berlin can only be roughly compared with rural districts in terms of population . Since the state of Berlin as a city-state is a unified municipality , there is no administrative level of the district in Berlin. The districts are not independent local authorities with their own legal personality - they do not even have the status of a municipality . Rather, it is a matter of “self-governing units in Berlin without legal personality” (Section 2 (1) of the District Administration Act).

With the 8th law amending the District Administration Act of October 22, 2008, which came into force at the beginning of the 17th electoral term, all district offices were uniformly divided into the same structures of the specialist offices. Various old specialist offices were combined to form larger organizational units; there should then only be ten specialist offices per district administration.

In addition to the subdivision into districts, there is a small-scale breakdown of the Berlin districts into 195  statistical areas, which are marked with three-digit numbers. One such statistical area is, for example, the Bavarian Quarter in Schöneberg , where the streets are mainly named after cities in Bavaria . The statistical areas roughly correspond to the localities or the residential areas ( Kiez ). You can reach across district boundaries; in such cases it is not possible to clearly assign a statistical area to a specific district. For example, the Rudow statistical area is partly located in the Rudow district and partly in the Gropiusstadt district .

Districts of Berlin

The zip code areas in Berlin
Population density of the individual districts of Berlin
(as of December 31, 2019)
district Inhabitant per km²
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
  
14,404
center
  
9,773
Neukölln
  
7,343
Tempelhof-Schöneberg
  
6,611
Lichtenberg
  
5,626
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  
5,309
Marzahn-Hellersdorf
  
4,373
Pankow
  
3,974
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
  
3,025
Reinickendorf
  
2,978
Spandau
  
2,668
Treptow-Koepenick
  
1,625

Up until the year 2000 there were 23 districts in Berlin. In the course of the last administrative reform (district area reform ) in 2001, the number was reduced to twelve by merging two or three districts. Spandau , Reinickendorf and Neukölln , which already had over 200,000 inhabitants, were excluded from the district merger .

No. district
Districts Area
in km²
Population
(December 31, 2019)
Population
per km²
(December 31, 2019)
District Mayor map
1 centerBerlin center 0101 Mitte
0102 Moabit
0103 Hansaviertel
0104 Tiergarten
0105 Wedding
0106 Gesundbrunnen
039.47 385,748 09,773 Stephan von Dassel ( Greens ) location
Berlin Mitte.svg
2 Friedrichshain-KreuzbergBerlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 0201 Friedrichshain
0202 Kreuzberg
020.16 290.386 14,404 Monika Herrmann ( Greens ) location
Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.svg
3 PankowBerlin Pankow 0301 Prenzlauer Berg
0302 Weißensee
0303 Blankenburg
0304 Heinersdorf
0305 Karow
0306  Malchow
suburb 0307 Pankow
0308 Blankenfelde
0309 Buch
0310 French Buchholz
0311 Niederschönhausen
0312 Rosenthal
0313 Wilhelmsruh
103.01 409.335 03,974 Sören Benn ( Die Linke ) location
Berlin Pankow.svg
4th Charlottenburg-WilmersdorfBerlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 0401 Charlottenburg
0402 Wilmersdorf
0403 Schmargendorf
0404 Grunewald
0405 Westend
0406 Charlottenburg-Nord
0407 Halensee
064.72 343,592 05,309 Reinhard Naumann ( SPD ) location
Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.svg
5 SpandauBerlin Spandau 0501 Spandau
0502 Haselhorst
0503 Siemensstadt
0504 Staaken
0505 Gatow
0506 Kladow
0507 Hakenfelde
0508 Falkenhagener Feld
0509 Wilhelmstadt
091.91 245.197 02,668 Helmut Kleebank ( SPD ) location
Berlin Spandau.svg
6th Steglitz-ZehlendorfBerlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf 0601 Steglitz
0602 Lichterfelde
0603 Lankwitz
0604 Zehlendorf
0605 Dahlem
0606 Nikolassee
0607 Wannsee
102.50 310,071 03,025 Cerstin Richter-Kotowski ( CDU ) location
Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf.svg
7th Tempelhof-SchönebergBerlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg 0701 Schöneberg
0702 Friedenau
0703 Tempelhof
0704 Mariendorf
0705 Marienfelde
0706 Lichtenrade
053.09 350.984 06,611 Angelika Schöttler ( SPD ) location
Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg.svg
8th NeuköllnBerlin Neukölln 0801 Neukölln
0802 Britz
0803 Buckow
0804 Rudow
0805 Gropiusstadt
044.93 329.917 07,343 Martin Hikel ( SPD ) location
Berlin Neukölln.svg
9 Treptow-KoepenickBerlin Treptow-Koepenick 0901 Alt-Treptow
0902 Plänterwald
0903 Baumschulenweg
0904 Johannisthal
0905 Niederschöneweide
0906 Altglienicke
0907 Adlershof
0908 Bohnsdorf
0909 Oberschöneweide
0910 Köpenick
0911 Friedrichshagen
0912 Rahnsdorf
0913 Grünau
0914 Müggelheim
0915 Schmöckwitz
168.42 273,689 01,625 Oliver Igel ( SPD ) location
Berlin Treptow-Köpenick.svg
10 Marzahn-HellersdorfBerlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1001 Marzahn
1002 Biesdorf
1003 Kaulsdorf
1004 Mahlsdorf
1005 Hellersdorf
061.74 269,967 04,373 Dagmar Pohle ( Die Linke ) location
Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf.svg
11 LichtenbergBerlin Lichtenberg 1101 Friedrichsfelde
1102 Karlshorst
1103 Lichtenberg
1104 Falkenberg
1105 formerly Hohenschönhausen (divided)
1106 Malchow
1107 Wartenberg
1109 Neu-Hohenschönhausen
1110 Alt-Hohenschönhausen
1111 Fennpfuhl
1112 Rummelsburg
052.29 294.201 05,626 Michael Grunst ( The Left ) location
Berlin Lichtenberg.svg
12 ReinickendorfBerlin Reinickendorf 1201 Reinickendorf
1202 Tegel
1203 Konradshöhe
1204 Heiligensee
1205 Frohnau
1206 Hermsdorf
1207 Waidmannslust
1208 Lübars
1209 Wittenau
1210 Märkisches Viertel
1211 Borsigwalde
089.46 266,408 02,978 Frank Balzer ( CDU ) location
Berlin Reinickendorf.svg

Subdivision of the districts into districts

The subdivision of the administrative districts into districts is based on the Greater Berlin Act of 1920 , which is still in force :

Section 29, Paragraph 1: "By a unanimous resolution of the district assembly and the district office, an administrative district can be divided into local districts (Section 60 of the City Code) with the approval of the magistrate."

Only the terminology has changed as a result of the Berlin constitution: District Assembly (instead of District Assembly); Senate (instead of magistrate) and districts (instead of local districts). The Berlin statistics are based on the specifications of the districts in their information about districts.

According to the Greater Berlin Act, the previous rural and urban communities became districts. If old communities were divided by the new district boundaries, corresponding districts were created for the individual parts. The district of Charlottenburg, which emerged from the city of Charlottenburg, was the only district that emerged from a single city without subdivision into districts, while the Friedrichshain district was the only " old Berlin " district with districts (Friedrichshain and Stralau ).

Over the years, there have been repeated changes to the district boundaries, smaller districts were dissolved and newly created settlements removed from existing districts (even if often only years later). There were major waves of change in the context of the district reform in 1938, in the early 1950s and as a result of the formation of the new large districts between 2001 and 2004.

From 1965 onwards, no districts were designated in East Berlin , and when the new districts were formed from 1979 onwards, no consideration was given to the former district boundaries. Only after reunification were the old districts re-established - adapted to the changed district boundaries - this led to the special situation that the Malchow district existed twice - in the Hohenschönhausen district as well as in the Weißensee district . The latter was then renamed in 2001 in the suburb of Malchow .

In the districts established in 1920, the settlement structure of the villages that emerged in the Middle Ages was essentially reflected. Several of the changes since 2001 react pragmatically to the massive construction of new apartments in the context of high-rise housing estates between 1961 and 1989. In West Berlin, this applies not only to the Hansaviertel (1960), but also to the Gropiusstadt and the Märkisches Viertel . The more extensive new construction activity in East Berlin, on the other hand, had led to the formation of new districts since the late 1970s (Marzahn, Hellersdorf, Hohenschönhausen). In 2012, Borsigwalde , previously located in Wittenau , was declared an independent district of the Reinickendorf district and thus the 96th district of Berlin.

No. District
district
Area
(km²)
Population
(December 31, 2019)
Inhabitants
per km²
0101 center center 10.70 102,465 9576
0102 Moabit center 7.72 80,495 10,427
0103 Hansaviertel center 0.53 5,926 11,181
0104 Zoo center 5.17 14,881 2878
0105 Wedding center 9.23 86,806 9405
0106 Healthy well center 6.13 95,175 15,526
0201 Friedrichshain Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 9.78 136.035 13,910
0202 Kreuzberg Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 10.40 154.351 14,841
0301 Prenzlauer Berg Pankow 11.00 165.003 15,000
0302 Weissensee Pankow 7.93 54.032 6814
0303 Blankenburg Pankow 6.03 6,875 1140
0304 Heinersdorf Pankow 3.95 7,869 1992
0305 Karow Pankow 6.65 19,679 2959
0306 Malchow suburb Pankow 5.68 1,120 197.2
0307 Pankow Pankow 5.66 64,945 11,474
0308 Blankenfelde Pankow 13.40 2,064 154
0309 book Pankow 18.20 16,868 926.8
0310 French Buchholz Pankow 12.00 21,281 1773
0311 Niederschönhausen Pankow 6.49 31,996 4930
0312 Rosenthal Pankow 4.90 9,596 1958
0313 Wilhelmsruh Pankow 1.37 8.007 5845
0401 Charlottenburg Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 10.60 130,663 12,327
0402 Wilmersdorf Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 7.16 102,619 14,332
0403 Schmargendorf Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 3.59 22.205 6185
0404 Grunewald Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 22.30 10,999 493.2
0405 West end Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 13.50 41,882 3102
0406 Charlottenburg-North Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 6.20 19,597 3161
0407 Halensee Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 1.27 15,627 12.305
0501 Spandau Spandau 8.03 39,560 4927
0502 Haselhorst Spandau 4.73 15,663 3311
0503 Siemensstadt Spandau 5.66 12,831 2267
0504 Staaken Spandau 10.90 46,607 4276
0505 Gatow Spandau 10.10 3,733 369.6
0506 Kladow Spandau 14.80 16,212 1095
0507 Hook field Spandau 20.40 31,296 1534
0508 Falkenhagener Feld Spandau 6.88 38,759 5634
0509 Wilhelmstadt Spandau 10.40 40,536 3898
0601 Steglitz Steglitz-Zehlendorf 6.79 75,803 11,164
0602 Lichterfelde Steglitz-Zehlendorf 18.20 86.206 4737
0603 Lankwitz Steglitz-Zehlendorf 6.99 43,566 6233
0604 Zehlendorf Steglitz-Zehlendorf 18.80 60,538 3220
0605 Dahlem Steglitz-Zehlendorf 8.39 16,929 2018
0606 Nikolassee Steglitz-Zehlendorf 19.60 16,695 851.8
0607 Wannsee Steglitz-Zehlendorf 23.70 10,334 436
0701 Schöneberg Tempelhof-Schöneberg 10.60 123.075 11,611
0702 Friedenau Tempelhof-Schöneberg 1.65 28,263 17.129
0703 Tempelhof Tempelhof-Schöneberg 12.20 62,248 5102
0704 Mariendorf Tempelhof-Schöneberg 9.38 53.094 5660
0705 Marienfelde Tempelhof-Schöneberg 9.15 32,349 3535
0706 Lichtenrade Tempelhof-Schöneberg 10.10 51,955 5144
0801 Neukölln Neukölln 11.70 166.157 14,201
0802 Britz Neukölln 12.40 42,796 3451
0803 Buckow Neukölln 6.35 40,703 6410
0804 Rudow Neukölln 11.80 42,631 3613
0805 Gropiusstadt Neukölln 2.66 37,630 14,147
0901 Alt-Treptow Treptow-Koepenick 2.31 12,878 5575
0902 Plänterwald Treptow-Koepenick 3.01 11,365 3776
0903 Baumschulenweg Treptow-Koepenick 4.82 18,842 3909
0904 Johannisthal Treptow-Koepenick 6.54 19,853 3036
0905 Niederschöneweide Treptow-Koepenick 3.49 12,850 3682
0906 Altglienicke Treptow-Koepenick 7.89 29,357 3721
0907 Adlershof Treptow-Koepenick 6.11 19,934 3263
0908 Bohnsdorf Treptow-Koepenick 6.52 11,671 1790
0909 Oberschöneweide Treptow-Koepenick 6.18 23,500 3803
0910 Koepenick Treptow-Koepenick 34.90 66,765 1913
0911 Friedrichshagen Treptow-Koepenick 14.00 19,145 1368
0912 Rahnsdorf Treptow-Koepenick 21.50 9,523 442.9
0913 Grünau Treptow-Koepenick 9.13 6,784 743
0914 Müggelheim Treptow-Koepenick 22.20 6,798 306.2
0915 Schmoeckwitz Treptow-Koepenick 17.10 4,424 258.7
1001 Marzahn Marzahn-Hellersdorf 19.50 111.021 5693
1002 Biesdorf Marzahn-Hellersdorf 12.40 28,069 2264
1003 Kaulsdorf Marzahn-Hellersdorf 8.81 19,408 2203
1004 Mahlsdorf Marzahn-Hellersdorf 12.90 29,360 2276
1005 Hellersdorf Marzahn-Hellersdorf 8.10 82,109 10.137
1101 Friedrichsfelde Lichtenberg 5.55 53,813 9696
1102 Karlshorst Lichtenberg 6.60 27,956 4236
1103 Lichtenberg Lichtenberg 7.22 41,758 5784
1104 Falkenberg Lichtenberg 3.06 1,870 611.1
1106 Malchow Lichtenberg 1.54 635 412.3
1107 Wartenberg Lichtenberg 6.92 2,548 368.2
1109 Neu-Hohenschönhausen Lichtenberg 5.16 56,918 11,031
1110 Old Hohenschönhausen Lichtenberg 9.33 48,979 5250
1111 Fennpfuhl Lichtenberg 2.12 34,074 16,073
1112 Rummelsburg Lichtenberg 4.52 25,650 5675
1201 Reinickendorf Reinickendorf 10.50 83.909 7991
1202 Tegel Reinickendorf 33.70 36,986 1098
1203 Konradshöhe Reinickendorf 2.20 6.004 2729
1204 Heiligensee Reinickendorf 10.70 18,100 1692
1205 Frohnau Reinickendorf 7.80 16,814 2156
1206 Hermsdorf Reinickendorf 6.10 16.607 2722
1207 Huntsmanship Reinickendorf 2.30 10,973 4771
1208 Lübars Reinickendorf 5.00 5,203 1041
1209 Wittenau Reinickendorf 5.90 24,656 4179
1210 Märkisches Viertel Reinickendorf 3.20 40,379 12,618
1211 Borsigwalde Reinickendorf 2.00 6,777 3389

History of the urban division of Berlin

Berlin and Kölln on the Memhardt Plan (northeast above)
The fortress Berlin to the west upstream Dorotheenstadt 1688
The ten districts of Berlin in the 18th century

The beginnings

In the 13th century both Berlin and Kölln received city rights. As early as 1307 a joint magistrate of the two cities was formed, which were also surrounded by a common city ​​wall . For reasons of power politics, Elector Friedrich II obtained the renewed separation of Berlin and Kölln into two independent cities in 1442. Based on the experiences of the Thirty Years War , the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm had a large fortress built from 1658 to 1683 , which included Berlin and Kölln as well as the suburbs of Friedrichswerder in the west and Neu-Kölln in the south. Friedrichswerder received its own magistrate, while Neu-Kölln was administered by Kölln.

Berlin in the 18th century

The building of the fortress proved to be outdated at the time of its completion, because further new suburbs had already emerged outside the ramparts. In 1710 the previously formally independent cities of Berlin, Kölln (with Neu-Kölln), Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt were united to form the royal capital and residence city of Berlin . Together with the other former suburbs included by the customs and excise wall, Berlin consisted of a total of ten districts in the 18th century:

Municipal division in the 19th century

The introduction of the Prussian town order as part of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms brought radical changes to the municipal administrative structure of Berlin. The new town order envisaged dividing larger towns into districts with several thousand inhabitants. Berlin was initially divided into a hundred districts, which initially also had their own names; for example, there was the Hallesche-Thor district, the Spittelmarkt district and the Monbijou district.

The number of districts increased over time as the population grew. After the city expansion in 1861, there were 270 districts that no longer had names, but were only numbered consecutively. In 1884 there was a new division into 326 districts, the number of which increased to 328 by the time Greater Berlin was formed in 1920.

The districts were grouped into districts , although there were no significant municipal institutions at the district level. In the course of the 19th century, more were added to the old ten districts. The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt was separated from the Spandau suburb in 1828 and has since formed its own district. In the area of ​​the city expansion from 1829 to 1841, the Rosenthaler and Oranienburger Vorstadt were created in the north and the Friedrichsvorstadt in the southwest .

In 1861, with the incorporation of the Weddings , Gesundbrunnen and Moabit as well as the Tempelhofer and Schöneberger Vorstadt, the most extensive urban expansion to date was carried out. Existing city districts also extended to some of the incorporated areas; so the Luisenstadt, the royal city and the Stralauer Vorstadt grew beyond their old outer borders. The last incorporations before the formation of Greater Berlin included the Great Zoo in 1881, the area of ​​the Central Cattle Farm in 1878 and parts of the Plötzensee manor district and the Rehberge , which were incorporated in 1915.

The following 21 historic districts existed until 1920

Formation of Greater Berlin

When Greater Berlin was formed by the Greater Berlin Act of April 27, 1920, seven surrounding independent cities as well as 59 rural communities and 27 manor districts from the districts of Niederbarnim , Teltow and Osthavelland were incorporated into the city of Greater Berlin. When the law came into force on October 1, 1920, the new urban area was divided into twenty administrative districts (colloquially: "districts"). The old Berlin urban area including the manor district of Schloß and the rural community of Stralau was divided into six districts (*). Another fourteen districts (**) emerged from summaries of the incorporated cities, rural communities and manor districts. These districts got their name from the largest incorporated city or rural community in terms of population. Except for five of the six inner city districts and the Charlottenburg district , all districts were officially subdivided into districts, with the districts in most cases corresponding to the incorporated cities and communities. The numbers 1 to 6 were given the six original districts (1 = center), the outer districts were numbered counterclockwise from 7 (Charlottenburg) to 20 (Reinickendorf):

The district reform of 1938

Border changes in the Berlin districts on April 1, 1938

With effect from April 1, 1938, numerous straightening of the district boundaries and some major area changes were made. This came among other things

  • the Eichkamp settlement from the Wilmersdorf district to the Charlottenburg district
  • the western part of Ruhleben from the Charlottenburg district to the Spandau district
  • the part of the Jungfernheide from the Charlottenburg district to the Reinickendorf and Wedding districts north of the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal
  • Martinikenfelde from the Charlottenburg district to the Tiergarten district
  • the area around Wittenbergplatz and Nollendorfplatz from the Charlottenburg district to the Schöneberg district
  • the area south of Kurfürstenstrasse from the Tiergarten district to the Schöneberg district
  • a large part of the Grunewald from the Wilmersdorf district to the Zehlendorf district
  • part of Dahlem from the Zehlendorf district to the Wilmersdorf district
  • the eastern edge of the Zehlendorf district (only a narrow strip in Dahlem, widening towards the south to a larger area in the southeast) to the Steglitz district
  • Späthsfelde from the Neukölln district to the Treptow district
  • Bohnsdorf from the Köpenick district to the Treptow district
  • Oberschöneweide and the Wuhlheide from the Treptow district to the Köpenick district
  • the areas of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg and Friedrichsberg to the west of the Ringbahn from the Lichtenberg district to the Friedrichshain district, then Horst-Wessel-Stadt.
  • Wilhelmsruh from the Reinickendorf district to the Pankow district
  • the area around Wollankstrasse west of the Berlin Northern Railway from the Pankow district to the Wedding district.

Already in 1928 and 1937 there had been shifts between Schöneberg and Tempelhof.

Immediately after the end of World War II , for reasons unknown today , the Soviet military administration made Friedenau the 21st district between April 29 and June 30, 1945 with Willy Pölchen ( KPD ) as district mayor; after that, Friedenau became a district of Schöneberg again as before. Correspondingly, the Friedenau District Court existed at the time .

Time of the division of Berlin

The four sector city (as of 1986)

At the Yalta Conference , the Allies had already agreed to divide Berlin into sectors (later: four- sector city ), the sector boundaries being based on existing district boundaries. Although Berlin was initially to be administered jointly after the Second World War, the irreconcilable differences between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union led to the city being divided. With a time lag, the two separate administrations of East and West Berlin developed from this .

In East Berlin in 1952 the term “district” was replaced by the “ city ​​district ” in order to separate it from the “districts” created at the same time in the GDR .

Due to the establishment of large new building areas in the east of the city in the 1970s and 1980s, three new districts were created in East Berlin in addition to the number of 20 districts set by the Greater Berlin Act of 1920: Marzahn (1979 from the Lichtenberg districts of Marzahn , Biesdorf , Kaulsdorf , Hellersdorf and Mahlsdorf ), Hohenschönhausen (1985 from parts of Weißensee) and Hellersdorf (1986 from parts of Marzahn). In order to maintain the independence and appropriate size of Weißensee as a district, the Pankow districts ( Heinersdorf , Blankenburg and Karow ) were divided into Weißensee when Hohenschönhausen was separated .

East Berlin
East Berlin boroughs
West Berlin
West Berlin districts

(the ordinal numbers in square brackets)

After reunification

Division between reunification (1990) and district reform (2000)

After the reunification of Germany and Berlin in 1990, all districts were initially continued unchanged and again consistently called district . Until 2000, the now 23 districts had very different sizes and populations. As part of the administrative reform in 2001, twelve new districts were created through the amalgamation of districts, which - similar to the method of counting according to the Greater Berlin Act ( see above ) - were numbered using a so-called district key. Usually two previously independent districts were merged into a new district, only the districts of Neukölln, Reinickendorf and Spandau remained unchanged. The newly structured districts of Pankow and Mitte each emerged from three previous districts. In the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Mitte districts, districts of the former East and West Berlin were merged into new districts. The dispute over the district name and the district coat of arms lasted for a long time in some of the new districts. Many names of public institutions still refer to the old districts. The Tiergarten District Court , the Tiergarten public swimming pool and the Wedding District Court are located in the newly merged Mitte district, namely in the districts of Moabit and Gesundbrunnen. The traffic signs are also often based on the older, more detailed district names.

See also

Web links

Commons : Berliner Bezirke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population figures by districts and statistical districts (PDF; 499 kB), Statistics Berlin Brandenburg with explanations and overview maps, as of December 31, 2007.
  2. a b c Residents in the State of Berlin on December 31, 2019, data from the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office , accessed on August 27, 2020 ( PDF file ) ( help ).
  3. berlin.de: The Council of Mayors
  4. Details are presented in the Greater Berlin Act of 1920
  5. See Berlin's Statistical Yearbooks from the relevant period
  6. See also the Statistical Yearbook of the GDR, issues up to 1964 with issues from 1965 onwards
  7. Example of a district sign
  8. Salomo Sachs (ed.): General street and housing indicator for Berlin . Scherer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-89433-163-1 (reprint of the original edition from 1812).
  9. ^ Verlag Julius Straube (ed.): Plan of the city parts and city districts of Berlin . Berlin 1875.
  10. Overview of the new division of the city of Berlin into districts . Grunert, Berlin 1884.
  11. a b Berlin address book 1920
  12. Magistrate of the City of Berlin (ed.): Proof of personnel from the Berlin municipal administration . Berlin 1912.
  13. History trail Papestrasse (PDF; 5.2 MB), Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office (2006)
  14. After the Second World War, from April 29 to June 30, 1945 , Friedenau was under Soviet occupation and was administered from the Friedenau Town Hall as an independent 21st district of Berlin by the non-party lawyer Georg von Broich-Oppert as the district mayor. After the Berlin districts were divided up among the victorious Allied powers , Friedenau was again part of the Schöneberg district.
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