Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

The town of Malchow is a district in the borough of Pankow in Berlin. It is not to be confused with the east Berlin district of Lichtenberg subsequent - Malchow.

Location

The district lies to the west of Federal Highway 2 between Weissensee and the Berlin city limits to the state of Brandenburg. The actual suburban settlement lies on the southern edge of the district and connects directly to Weissensee and Heiner village. North of the suburban settlement lies the small garden wonderland, and the rest of the neighborhood is undeveloped and is mainly used for agricultural purposes. Among the 96 districts of Berlin is the city Malchow, Blankenfelde, the most sparsely populated district.

History

The area of present-day hamlet originally belonged to the rural community Malchow, who was a hamlet in the Weissensee district since the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920. To September 1, 1985 Malchow was divided; the old village center came to the newly formed district Hohenschonhausen, while the remaining area of Malchow including the suburban settlement in the district of Weissensee remained. Since the formation of new large districts in 2001, the city Malchow belongs to a district 's Pankow district and the old town center of Malchow as a district to the district of Lichtenberg.

The suburban settlement was built between 1936 and 1939 on former sewage about a kilometer southwest of the old village of Malchow. Its streets are named after characters and places from Norse mythology.

Others

The northern area of the district to the outskirts Park New Meadows is part of the transnational Barnim Nature Park. On a site south of the Berlin outer ring in the middle of the district of Berlin second golf course was opened in September 2005.