Prenzlauer Berg

Prenzlauer Berg is a locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of . From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right.
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  • Type: Suburb with 150,000 residents
  • Description: locality of Berlin
  • Also known as: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg” and “Prenzlauer Berg Bezirk
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Berlin Wall and Fernsehturm Berlin.

The was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.

The Fernsehturm in central was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power.

Square
Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.
is a large and transport hub in the central district of . The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from Mollstraße in the north-east to Spandauer Straße and the Rotes Rathaus in the south-west.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and East Central.

, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

Photo: El passs, Public domain.
is a trendy, bohemian, artsy area that consists of Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Wedding and Gesundbrunnen. The western district Kreuzberg was merged with the eastern district Friedrichshain in 2001.

The East is a district of Berlin. It consists of the boroughs Pankow, Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen, Marzahn and Hellersdorf. The most interesting places for tourists are in Lichtenberg: the Stasi relics and museums, the Tierpark and some remarkable architecture such as the Mies van der Rohe house.

Prenzlauer Berg

Latitude
52.5398° or 52° 32′ 23″ north
Longitude
13.4286° or 13° 25′ 43″ east
Population
150,000
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
Open location code
9F4MGCQH+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 163852973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2852217
Wiki­data ID
Q313186
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Ukrainian—“Prenzlauer Berg” goes by many names.
  • Breton: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Bulgarian: Пренцлауер Берг
  • Catalan: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Cebuano: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Chinese: 普伦茨劳尔贝格
  • Chinese: 普伦茨劳贝格
  • Chinese: 普倫茨勞貝格
  • Czech: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Danish: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Dutch: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • Dutch: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Esperanto: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Estonian: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Estonian: Prenzlauer Bergi linnaosa
  • Finnish: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • Finnish: Prenzlauer Berg
  • French: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • French: District de Prenzlauer Berg
  • French: Prenzlauer Berg
  • French: Prenzlauerberg
  • German: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • German: Prenzelberg
  • German: Prenzlauer Berg
  • German: Prenzlberg
  • Greek: Πρέντσλαουερ Μπεργκ
  • Hebrew: פרנצלאואר ברג
  • Hebrew: פרנצלאור ברג
  • Hungarian: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Italian: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • Italian: Berlino-Prenzlauer Berg
  • Italian: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Japanese: プレンツラウアー・ベルク
  • Japanese: プレンツラウアー・ベルク地区
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Norwegian: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Persian: پرنتسلاور برگ
  • Polish: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Portuguese: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Russian: Пренцлауэр Берг
  • Russian: Пренцлауэр-Берг
  • Slovenian: Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
  • Slovenian: Prenzelberg
  • Slovenian: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Slovenian: Prenzlberg
  • Spanish: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Swedish: Berlins Prenzlauer Berg
  • Swedish: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Tagalog: Prenzlauer Berg
  • Ukrainian: Пренцлауер-Берґ

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Standesamt and Ashkelon-Platz.

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