Reinickendorf () is a locality () of

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in the

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() 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 ...

. It had a population of 83,972 in 2020.

Geography

The locality is situated in the south-western side of its district. It borders the localities of Tegel in the west, Wittenau and Borsigwalde in the north. To the east are Wilhelmsruh,

Niederschönhausen Niederschönhausen (, literally "Lower Schönhausen") is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality (''Ortsteil'') within the borough (''Bezirk'') of Pankow in Berlin, Germany. It is also known as "Pankow-Schönhausen" to differ it from Alt-Hoh ...

and

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, all three in the

borough, to the south Gesundbrunnen and

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, both in the borough of

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History

The name of the former Reinickendorf village can be traced back to a peasant ''Reinhardt'' (''Reineke'' in

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), who settled here around 1230. The locality was first mentioned in a 1345 deed and acquired by the City of Berlin in 1397. The late 19th century saw a significant increase in population, when Reinickendorf received direct access to Berlin with the opening of the ''Nordbahn'' railway line to

Neustrelitz Neustrelitz (; ) is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 until 1918 it was the capital o ...

in 1877. Reinickendorf was incorporated into the City of Berlin by the 1920

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. In 1928, architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg designed the ''Weiße Stadt'' (White City), part of the Berlin

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, a UNESCO

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. During

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, Reinickendorf was the location of a subcamp of the

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners t ...

for Hungarian Jewish and Polish women. Kriegsgräberstätte Reinickendorf is adjacent to the S-Bahn station and is accessed from Freitheitsweg or via a footpath on the south side of the station. In addition to one grave from 1919, inside the gate is a plot containing burials of military personnel and civilians from the Battle for Berlin and, in particular, 24th April 1945. Beyond this plot is another containing deaths occurring during the winter of 1945/46. To the west side are further immediate post-war civilian graves amounting to 500 burials. The total number of burials in the cemetery is around 2,370.

Transportation

Reinickendorf is served by the

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lines S1, S25, S85 and by the

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line U8. The S-Bahn stations are Schönholz,

Wilhelmsruh Wilhelmsruh () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the borough (''Bezirk'') of Pankow, Berlin. It is the city's smallest locality, after Halensee and Hansaviertel. History In the locality, originally part of Rosenthal, it was built a cou ...

,Station located at the border between the localities of Reinickendorf and Wilhelmsruh Alt-Reinickendorf, Karl Bonhoeffer Nervenklinik and Eichborndamm. The U-Bahn stations are

Rathaus Reinickendorf In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal hall (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city o ...

, Karl Bonhoeffer Nervenklinik, Lindauer Allee, Paracelsus Bad, Residenzstraße and Franz Neumann Platz.

Photogallery

image:S-Bahnhof Berlin - Alt Reinickendorf.jpg, S-Bahn station Alt-Reinickendorf image:Berlin - Rathaus Reinickendorf (Altbau).jpg, City hall File:Berlin_Reinickendorf_church.jpg, Church

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