Karow is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Boroughs and localities of Berlin

Berlin is both a city and one of Germany’s federal states. It is made up of twelve boroughs , each with its own borough government, though all boroughs are subject to Berlin’s city and state government.-History:Each borough is made up of several officially recognized localities...

 (Ortsteil) within the Berlin borough (Bezirk) of Pankow

Pankow

Pankow is the third borough of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow.- Overview :...

. Until 2001 it was part of the former Weißensee borough.

History

The locality was founded in 1375 with the name of Kare . Autonomous Prussia

Prussia

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n municipality of the former Niederbarnim district, Karow was incorporated into Berlin in 1920, with the "Greater Berlin Act

Greater Berlin Act

The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:...

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Overview

Located in the north-eastern suburb of Berlin, it borders with the localities of Buch

Buch (Berlin)

Buch is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow.-History:The village was founded in 1347, on Panke river, a tributary of Spree . Until 1920 Buch was a Brandenburger municipalty merged in Berlin with the "Greater Berlin Act"...

, Französisch Buchholz

Französisch Buchholz

Französisch Buchholz , also known simply as Buchholz, is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow.-History:...

, Blankenburg

Blankenburg (Berlin)

Blankenburg is a German locality within the borough of Pankow, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Weißensee.-History:...

 and Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow. Until 2001 it was part of the former Weißensee borough.-History:...

. It also borders, on the east, with the Brandenburg

Brandenburg

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er town of Ahrensfelde

Ahrensfelde

Ahrensfelde is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 13 km northeast of Berlin ....

, in the district of Barnim

Barnim

Barnim is a district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is bounded by Poland, the district of Märkisch-Oderland, the city state of Berlin and the districts of Oberhavel and Uckermark.- History :...

. Part of its territory, close to the natural reserve Karower Teiche (in Buchholz) is included in Barnim Nature Park

Barnim Nature Park

Barnim Nature Park is a nature park and reserve in the state of Brandenburg, and partly in Berlin, Germany. It covers an area of 750 km² . It was established on September 24, 1998.-Overview:...

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Transport

The locality is served by the S-Bahn

Berlin S-Bahn

The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It consists of 15 lines and is integrated with the mostly underground U-Bahn to form the backbone of Berlin's rapid transport system...

station of Karow, on the line S2

S2 (Berlin)

S2 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Bernau to Blankenfelde over:*the Berlin-Szczecin railway, opened on 1 August 1842 and electrified on 8 August 1924,...

. This station is also the endpoint of a local railway, the Heidekrautbahn.

The Berliner beltway (A10

Bundesautobahn 10

runs in Brandenburg and is an orbital motorway around Berlin and is therefore called the Berliner Ring. It should not be confused with the Berliner Stadtring ....

, known as "Berliner Ring") crosses Karow and separates it from Buch. An exit serving the quarter (n.3 "Bucher Straße") is located on the short motorway A114

Bundesautobahn 114

is a motorway in the north of the German capital Berlin. It connects the A 10 starting at the Autobahndreieck Pankow over a seven kilometers distance to the main center of Berlin. The motorway was released for traffic between 1973 and 1982....

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Literature

• Martin Eckart Pfannschmidt: "Geschichte der Berliner Vororte Buch und Karow", Berlin 1927

External links

Karow official site Site about Alt-Karow