Pankow

13 districts

Pankow [ Panko ː ] is the third borough of Berlin and has approximately 370,000 inhabitants. Until the administrative reform in 2001, there was a smaller district of Pankow; this was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee for now the most populous districts of Berlin.

• 5.1 County 1920-1938
• 5.2 City borough of Pankow in 1938 to end of 2000
• 5.3 Pankow district since 2001
• 5.4 GDR government seat

• 6.1 private transport
• 6.2 tram
• 6.3 S- Bahn and regional
• 6.4 Metro
• 6.5 Long distance routes

Geography

Pankow is located in the northeast of Berlin, bordering the districts of Lichtenberg, Friedrichshain - Kreuzberg, Mitte and Reinickendorf as well as the counties of Upper Havel and Barnim in Brandenburg.

The district lies almost entirely on the glacially formed Barnim plateau of which is flat here, flat to undulating. For the most part the landscape consists moraine. Along the Panke also a Sander moves north, south to the Berlin glacial valley.

Districts and local documents

In the district of Pankow made ​​thirteen districts.

• Stadtrandsiedlung book

• Arkenberge

• Northrend
• Schönholz

The district is inhabited very different. Two thirds of the population of the district live in the three largest districts: Prenzlauer Berg, Pankow and Weissensee. Prenzlauer Berg is the fifth most populated densely district of Berlin, while Blank field and city Malchow are the two most sparsely populated districts of the city. These two districts together express almost a fifth of the area of the district, but have less than one percent of the population of the district. After Neukölln Prenzlauer Berg is the second most populous district of Berlin.

Population

31 October 2013, the district of Pankow counted 370 455 inhabitants in an area of 103.0 square kilometers. Thus, the population density was 3,596 at the date inhabitants per square kilometer. On 31 December 2012, the proportion of foreigners was 7.9 per cent, although this proportion varies greatly depending on the district. The proportion of the population with a migration background lay on date at 13.7 percent. The unemployment rate amounted on April 30, 2013, 10.0 per cent and was thus the lowest value of all districts in Berlin (for comparison: the Neukölln district, had 17.1 percent, the highest rate ). The average age of the population amounted on 31 December 2012 to 40.8 years. The proportion of women in the district according to Statistical Yearbook of 2011 was 50.7 percent compared to 49.3 percent of men share.

Policy

Representation of the people of the district is the district council ( BVV ) of Pankow in Berlin.

District Mayor

The former Pankow district before the 2001 administrative reform

District Mayor of Grand Pankow district

After the administrative reform of 2001, consisting of the former districts of Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee

• 2001-2002: Alex Lubawinski (SPD )
• 2002-2006: Burkhard Kleinert (PDS / Left Party )
• Since 2006: Matthias Köhne (SPD )

History

County from 1920 to 1938

In the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the 19th administrative district of Berlin was formed from the following work to the district Niederbarnim belonging areas:

• Rural community Pankow ( 629 acres, 57 962 inhabitants)
• Rural community Blankenburg (400 acres, 1161 inhabitants)
• Gutsbezirk Blankenburg ( 282 acres, 156 inhabitants)
• Rural community Blank field (547 acres, 549 inhabitants)
• Gutsbezirk Blank field (519 acres, 360 inhabitants)
• Rural community of book (284 acres, 3917 inhabitants)
• Gutsbezirk Book ( 1612 acres, 2562 inhabitants)
• Country community Buchholz ( 1155 acres, 4905 inhabitants)
• Rural community Heiner village ( 394 acres, 1006 inhabitants)
• Rural community Karow ( 533 acres, 949 inhabitants)
• Rural community Niederschoenhausen (551 acres, 18,913 inhabitants)
• Gutsbezirk Niederschoenhausen with nice wood (66 acres, 362 inhabitants)
• Eastern part of the rural community Rosenthal ( 479 acres in 1725 inhabitants)
• Gutsbezirk Rosenthal ( 341 acres, 129 inhabitants)

The western part of the rural community including Wilhelmsruh Rosenthal came to the district Reinickendorf. After its most populous district of the district was given the name Pankow. The Pankow City Hall was the seat of the district mayor and the district council. 1930, the district of Pankow was the opening of the route section Schön Allee - reached Vinetastraße of the Berlin U -Bahn.

District of Pankow from 1938 to end of 2000

In 1938 it came to Berlin for a reform of the district boundaries. The area to the west of Berlin's northern runway at the Wollankstraße was reclassified from Pankow district in the district of Wedding. The district Reinickendorf gave his east of the Northern Railway -lying area, consisting of Wilhelmsruh and the south in the Waldsteg settlement, from the district of Pankow. In addition, there were minor changes in the border district of Prenzlauer Berg in the Bornholm road and the road Wisbyer. The population of the district grew by boundary changes around 1,629 residents and the area of the district has increased by 81 acres. The former border between the districts of Pankow and Reinickendorf is still marked by the transition of the main street in the Copenhagen street with the Wilhelmsruh as the first building on the Copenhagen street.

At the end of World War II the district of Pankow was taken on April 22, 1945 by Soviet forces and, according to the statement of Yalta assigned to the Soviet sector of Berlin. From October 1949 Pankow was as a city district of East Berlin de facto part of the GDR, regardless of the disputed status of the city until 1990.

After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, the exact course of the county line along the northern railway was significant. The S-Bahn stations Wilhelmsruh and Schönholz were despite their name to West Berlin territory and were no longer available from the district Pankow. Although the S-Bahn station Wollankstraße lay on the floor of the Pankow district, its eastern entrance but was also blocked. The station remained accessible from West Berlin.

In 1985, the districts Karow, Heiner village and Blankenburg were reclassified in the then district of Weissensee, which in turn gave a large part of its territory to the new district Hohenschonhausen.

With German reunification on 3 October 1990, the Pankow district became part of the Federal State of Berlin. On 16 September 2000, the Metro Line 2 was extended by the Vinetastraße to the station Berlin- Pankow.

Pankow district since 2001

On 1 January 2001, the Pankow district was merged in the Berlin district of Weissensee and reform with the districts of Prenzlauer Berg. The new large district received after long disputes about the name on his decision Borough Assembly again the name Pankow.

GDR government seat

In the West German parlance, the term metonymic Pankow was used when the GDR leadership was meant. The reason is that from 1949 the Castle Schönhausen seat of the President of the GDR Wilhelm Pieck was. By 1964, the building was the official residence of the Head of State, the Chairman of the State Council. Together with the nearby Majakowskiring made ​​it one of the political centers of the GDR. However, after the inner-German rapprochement after 1974 he advanced in language use in the background. Only in 1983, the term has been refreshed with the song special train to Pankow by Udo Lindenberg.

Traffic

Private transport

The road in the district is dominated by the three extending radially from the center to the north or north-east highways B 96a (Schön Allee / Berliner Straße ), B 109 (Prenzlauer Allee / Prenzlauer Promenade ), the most Pankow- Heinersdorf S-Bahn station to the Federal Highway 114 opens, and the B 2 ( Greifswalderstraße / Berliner Allee). Of great importance for the road, the two ring roads are: Danziger Straße ( within the S- Bahn ring ) and Baltic Street - Wisbyer road - Bornholm road (outside the S- Bahn ring ).

Tram

The tram network in the district follows the main roads described in the section road substantially. There is also a running from southwest to northeast supplement line. The running of the beautiful Allee to the north tram line branches out in the district of Pankow in three branches. The lines in the Berliner Allee leaves the Pankow district towards the east of the district of Lichtenberg.

The track in the Berliner Allee was refurbished in autumn 2005 and equipped with lärmschluckendem lawn track and new stations.

S- Bahn and regional

In the district of Pankow is almost the entire northern part of the Ostringes the circle line with the S-Bahn stations Storkower road, Landsberger Allee, Greifswalderstraße, Prenzlauer Allee and the Beautiful Allee. The lines from the south to the share located on the border of the district health fountain of Mitte station in the Bornholm road routes the direction of Oranienburg / Hennigsdorf ( Berlin Northern Railway ) and Bernau ( Szczecin railway ) on. On the border of the county Reinickendorf are the stations Wollankstraße, Schönholz and Wilhelmsruh, which are the two last-mentioned stations on Reinickendorfer area. Are the stations Pankow, Pankow -Heiner village, Blankenburg, Karow and book at the leading north-east of Szczecin railway.

At the Berlin -Karow train station, the regional rail line begins NB27 ( Heidekrautbahn ) the Niederbarnimer railroad to Great Beautiful Beck or Wensickendorf.

Subway

In the district of Pankow, there are five underground stations on the U2 line, in the district of Prenzlauer Berg, the stations Senefelderplatz, Eberswalde road and the Beautiful Allee as well as in the district of Pankow the stations Vinetastraße and Pankow. Here are the stations Beautifully Allee and Pankow interchange stations to the S -Bahn.

Long distance routes

Pankow is integrated into the network of cycle routes. So the cycle route Berlin- Usedom runs from the Museum Island along the beautiful Allee, then turns off in the Schwedter Straße and leads through the Mauerpark and the castle park Pankow and continue to Karow and book. Along the county line between Pankow and Reinickendorf district and the district of Wedding from the district center, which corresponds to the former boundary line of the GDR, the Berlin Wall Trail runs.

Attractions

Among the interesting buildings in the district of Pankow Pankow include the town hall from the 20th century and the Castle Schönhausen in Niederschoenhausen. Pankow is considered as a green district, while the public park, the castle park and the People's Park Schoenholzer heath are particularly worthy of mention.

In Prenzlauer Berg are in the older area between Prenzlauer Allee and nice wide sidewalks with cafes and pubs in spite of the dense development worth watching. Noteworthy are the big housing estates from the 1920s that document the new building of their time as opposed to the tenements. This is particularly true for the Carl Legien estate, which has been designed by Bruno Taut and, together with five other Berlin Housing Estates World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

In the district of Weissensee the Weissensee Park with the almost circular White Lake, the largest natural water bodies in the district, a dominant feature is.

In the district of Weissensee is also the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.

Other Buildings

(With the Geo coordinates: 52 ° 38 ' 54 "N, 13 ° 26' 40 " O52.64833333333313.444444444444 ) on a field in northern Pankow, part book is the only wind turbine in Berlin, with 180 meters height, the tallest structure Pankow is.

Coat of arms

" In silver up a through and above adjoining red brick wall without joints, with three open doors without a leaf, the middle of the arches wider and taller than the outer; below an eight-spoked wheel red, accompanied above its center on both sides of a green hop cone with leaf. The escutcheon is placed a red three-towered mural crown, whose central tower is occupied by the Berlin coat of arms. "

The coat of arms corresponds, after examining the Provincial Archives Berlin heraldic and historical requirements.

The search for a coat of arms of the district of Pankow found on 28 July 2009 end. In the district, the decision was made by the district administration after recommendation by the Commission coat of arms. After the administrative reform of 2001, the former smaller district of Pankow went on in the large district of Pankow. The end of 2006 the dispute was ended by the district name and therefore called on 1 October 2007 to crest determination. On 30 April 2008, the Borough Assembly decided to heraldist Jörg Mantzsch to entrust the design, the various proposals presented by predefined text for decision. After some discussion between the district office and the exporting heraldist the Pankow district office was on 24 February 2009 adopted the draft known. The official presentation of the coat of arms by the Senate of Berlin took place on 28 July 2009.

The coat of arms of the old district of Pankow was presented during the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987. It includes elements of the former rural community Pankow and showed " in a silver shield two crossed and held together by a silver ribbon golden sheaves on green ground. In the sheaves is plugged with blue leaf erect a golden rake, a golden flail diagonally right and diagonally left a scythe. All three devices have a red stem. The sheaves are occupied by two deposed and diagonally crossed blue spade with red stems. " As part of the district reform of the coat of arms was first added to a three-towered mural crown, whose central tower is occupied by the Berlin coat of arms. The mural crown is the unifying element of all districts in Berlin.

Partners and Sponsorships

Poland Kolobrzeg ( since May 1994 ) - a reasoned from Altbezirk Pankow actively pursued partnerships.

Israel Ashkelon (since July 1994) - from Altbezirk Weissensee introduced partnership. After the partnership rested long, the contacts are reactivated since 2009.

1st Company of the Guard Battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defence ( since July 2006) - sponsorship with the 1st Company of the Guard Battalion at the Ministry of Defense, which followed that started in 1998 sponsorship with the Command Support Regiment 38 of the Bundeswehr ( after its relocation to Storkow ).

Others

• " Pankow " is the name of a Berlin rock band.
• The singer Udo Lindenberg brought in 1983 a song titled Special Train to Pankow out.
• " Pankow " was for a time a popular synonym for the GDR and its governance in the West German usage, particularly in the media and politics ( see → here).
• On 23 September 2008, the district received the loaned by the federal government entitled " City of Diversity".