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Moabit

Moabit is an inner city locality in the borough of , , Germany. As of 2022, about 84,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial and working-class neighbourhood is fully surrounded by three watercourses, which define its present-day border.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 81,000 residents
  • Description: locality of Berlin
  • Also known as: “Alt-Moabit”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Wall.

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in , Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former that marked the start of the road from Berlin to , the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Photo: fauxaddress, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. is situated 3½ km east of Moabit.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Victory Column is a monument in , Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory over Denmark in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War, giving the statue a new purpose.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include City West and Mitte.

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is the heart of former West Berlin and even after reunification it represents the main retail centre of Berlin — all the best and most expensive shops are here.

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, 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.

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is a locality in the borough of , , Germany. It was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Moabit

Latitude
52.5261° or 52° 31′ 34″ north
Longitude
13.339° or 13° 20′ 20″ east
Population
81,000
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
9F4MG8GQ+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13104652169
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
2870310
Wiki­data ID
Q699800
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Satellite Map

Discover Moabit from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Moabit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موابيت”
  • Bashkir: “Моабит”
  • Bavarian: “Moabit”
  • Belarusian: “Маабіт”
  • Catalan: “Moabit”
  • Cebuano: “Moabit”
  • Chinese: “莫阿比特”
  • Danish: “Moabit”
  • Dutch: “Berlijn-Moabit”
  • Dutch: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • Dutch: “Moabit”
  • Esperanto: “Moabit”
  • Finnish: “Moabit”
  • French: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • French: “Moabit”
  • Galician: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • German: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • German: “Moabit”
  • Greek: “Μοαμπίτ”
  • Hebrew: “מואביט”
  • Hungarian: “Moabit”
  • Italian: “Berlino-Moabit”
  • Italian: “Moabit”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン＝モアビート”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン＝モアビト地区”
  • Japanese: “モアビット”
  • Latin: “Moabit”
  • Latin: “Moabitum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moabit”
  • Norwegian: “Moabit”
  • Persian: “موآبیت”
  • Persian: “موابیت”
  • Polish: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • Polish: “Moabit”
  • Portuguese: “Moabit”
  • Romanian: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • Russian: “Берлин-Моабит”
  • Russian: “Моабит”
  • Slovenian: “Moabit”
  • Spanish: “Berlin-Moabit”
  • Spanish: “Berlín-Moabit”
  • Swedish: “Moabit”
  • Tagalog: “Moabit”
  • Tajik: “Берлин-Моабит”
  • Tajik: “Моабит”
  • Welsh: “Moabit”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Moabit”. Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.