Lübars () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the
borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English language, English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
History
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(''Bezirk'') of
Reinickendorf
Reinickendorf () is the twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates like Märkisches Viertel.
Subd ...
,
Berlin
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.
History
First mentioned in 1247, it was an autonomous municipality merged into Berlin in 1920 with the "
Greater Berlin Act
The Greater Berlin Act (), officially Law Regarding the Creation of the New Municipality of Berlin (), was a law passed by the Prussian state government in 1920, which greatly expanded the size of the Prussian and German capital of Berlin.
Hist ...
". As a part of
West Berlin
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bordering
East Germany
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, Lübars was crossed, from 1961 to 1989, by the
Berlin Wall
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, built beyond the
Tegeler Creek (''Tegeler Fließ''). Famous was the "
Checkpoint Qualitz", a point of the wall named after Helmut Qualitz, a farmer from Lübars, who broke it on 16 June 1990 with his
tractor
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.
Geography
Overview
Situated in the north of Berlin and partially included in the area of
Barnim Nature Park, Lübars includes the small lakes of
Ziegeleisee,
Klötzbecken and part of
Hermsdorfer See. The ''Tegeler Fließ'' separates Lübars from the
Brandenburg
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er municipalities, both in the
Oberhavel
Oberhavel is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Its neighbouring districts are (clockwise from the north): Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the districts of Uckermark and Ba ...
district, of
Glienicke/Nordbahn and
Mühlenbecker Land (with its municipal seat of
Schildow). The Berliner bordering localities are
Hermsdorf,
Waidmannslust,
Wittenau,
Märkisches Viertel,
Blankenfelde and
Rosenthal (both in the
Pankow
Pankow () is the second largest and most populous Boroughs and quarters of Berlin, borough of the German capital Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee (Berlin), W ...
district). Lübars' principal recreation park is the
eponymous one, situated in its southwestern corner.
Subdivision
Lübars counts 3 zones (''Ortslagen''):
[Source: "]ADAC
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StadtAtlas - Berlin-Potsdam". ed. 2007 - pages 121 -
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AEG-Siedlung
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Andreas-Rabe-Siedlung
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Kienwerder
Transport
The locality is not served by rail; only its southern borders with Märkisches Viertel are crossed by the
industrial railway Tegel-Friedrichsfelde.
Bus line 222 serves the locality.
Photogallery
File:Dorfkirche Lübars 01.jpg, Village church
File:Checkpoint Qualitz.jpg, Memorial plaque at "Checkpoint Qualitz"
File:Barnim2.JPG, Tegeler Fließ valley
File:Tegeler Fließ Grenzsperre 2009 NE.jpg, Tegeler Fließ with relics of the former GDR border barriers
References
Literature
* W. Ribbe, J. Schmädeke: "''Kleine Berlin-Geschichte''", Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1994,
External links
Lübars page of Reinickendorfer site
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Localities of Berlin
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