Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain is a quarter of the borough of in , Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding city borough.
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  • Type: Suburb with 114,000 residents
  • Description: locality of Berlin
  • Also known as: “Friedrichshain Bezirk” and “Verwaltungsbezirk Friedrichshain”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fernsehturm Berlin and Alexanderplatz.

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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
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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.

Stadium
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is a multipurpose indoor arena in the Friedrichshain neighborhood of , , which opened in 2008. The venue became known as Arena following a long-term deal with venue operators AEG Europe in 2024.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and East Central.

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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 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.

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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.

Friedrichshain

Latitude
52.5122° or 52° 30′ 44″ north
Longitude
13.4503° or 13° 27′ 1″ east
Population
114,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
9F4MGF62+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262328057
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2924573
Wiki­data ID
Q317056
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Satellite Map

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

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Friedrichshain” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Friedrichshain”
  • Belarusian: “Фрыдрыхсгайн”
  • Breton: “Friedrichshain”
  • Bulgarian: “Фридрихсхайн”
  • Catalan: “Friedrichshain”
  • Cebuano: “Friedrichshain”
  • Chinese: “弗里德里希斯海因”
  • Chinese: “腓特烈斯海因”
  • Chinese: “腓特烈斯海恩”
  • Czech: “Friedrichshain”
  • Danish: “Friedrichshain”
  • Dutch: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • Dutch: “Friedrichshain”
  • Estonian: “Friedrichshain”
  • Finnish: “Friedrichshain”
  • French: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • French: “District de Friedrichshain”
  • French: “Friedrichshain”
  • German: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • German: “Friedrichshain”
  • German: “Horst-Wessel-Stadt”
  • Greek: “Φρίντριχσχαϊν”
  • Hebrew: “פרידריכסהיין”
  • Hungarian: “Friedrichshain”
  • Italian: “Berlino-Friedrichshain”
  • Italian: “Friedrichshain”
  • Japanese: “フリードリヒスハイン”
  • Japanese: “フリードリヒスハイン地区”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン＝フリードリヒスハイン”
  • Latin: “Friedrichshain”
  • Latin: “Lucus Fridericianus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Friedrichshain”
  • Norwegian: “Friedrichshain”
  • Persian: “فریدرایشسهاین”
  • Persian: “فریدریشزهاین”
  • Polish: “Friedrichshain”
  • Portuguese: “Friedrichshain”
  • Russian: “Берлин-Фридрихсхайн”
  • Russian: “Фридрихсхайн”
  • Slovenian: “Friedrichshain”
  • Spanish: “Friedrichshain”
  • Swedish: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • Swedish: “Friedrichshain”
  • Tagalog: “Friedrichshain”
  • Tajik: “Фридрихсхайн”
  • Tajik: “Фридрихсҳайн”
  • Turkish: “Berlin-Friedrichshain”
  • Turkish: “Friedrichshain”
  • Welsh: “Friedrichshain”
  • Western Panjabi: “فریڈرشہائین-کریوزبرگ”

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