Lübars 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...

 locality (Ortsteil) within the borough

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...

 (Bezirk) of Reinickendorf

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.-Subdivision:...

, Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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History

First mentioned in 1247, it was an autonomous municipality merged 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:...

". As a part of West Berlin

West Berlin

West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...

 bordering East Germany, Lübars was crossed, from 1961 to 1989, by the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

, built beyond the Tegeler Creek

Tegeler Fließ

The Tegeler Fließ is a 30 km stream in Brandenburg and Berlin, and is named after the Tegel district of Berlin through which it flows.The river's source is in Basdorf in Wandlitz and it flows down into Lake Tegel....

 (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

Tractor

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Overview

Situated in the north of Berlin and partially included in the area of 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:...

 , Lübars includes the small lakes of Ziegeleisee

Ziegeleisee

Ziegeleisee is a lake in Berlin, Germany. At an elevation of , its surface area is 4.7 ha.-Geography:The lake is located in Lübars, a locality belonging to the Berliner borough of Reinickendorf....

, Klötzbecken and part of Hermsdorfer See. The Tegeler Fließ separates Lübars from the Brandenburg

Brandenburg

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er municipalities, both in Oberhavel

Oberhavel

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 district, of Glienicke/Nordbahn

Glienicke/Nordbahn

Glienicke/Nordbahn is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It ls located right north of Berlin.-Landscape:Glienicke/Nordbahn is located on the northern outskirts of Berlin. The addition "Nordbahn" is based on the proximity to the 19th century-built railway line...

 and Mühlenbecker Land

Mühlenbecker Land

Mühlenbecker Land is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany.-History:The municipality shared its borders partly with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall....

 (with its municipal seat of Schildow). The Berliner bordering localities are Hermsdorf

Hermsdorf

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, Waidmannslust

Waidmannslust

Waidmannslust is a German locality within the borough of Reinickendorf, Berlin.-History:The locality was created in 1875 as a Villenkolonie . In 1920 it merged in the city of Berlin with the Greater Berlin Act. During the period 1949–1990 it was part of the French sector of West Berlin. Some...

, Wittenau

Wittenau

Wittenau is a German locality within the borough of Reinickendorf, Berlin.-History:Originally named Dalldorf it was first mentioned in 1332...

, Märkisches Viertel

Märkisches Viertel

Märkisches Viertel is a German locality in the borough of Reinickendorf in Berlin.-Overview:It consists of a large housing estate of about 17,000 apartments with chains of high-rises up to 16 floors that were built from 1964 to 1974 by the GeSoBau Gesellschaft für sozialen Wohnungsbau...

, Blankenfelde

Blankenfelde

Blankenfelde is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow. Per population density it is the lesser one into the city .-History:...

 and Rosenthal

Rosenthal (Berlin)

Rosenthal is an affluent locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow. The old village first mentioned in a 1356 deed as Rosendalle became a part of Greater Berlin in 1920 .-Overview:The Rosenthal locality includes the Nordend neighborhood....

 (both in Pankow

Pankow

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 district). Lübars' principal recreation park is the eponymous one, situated in its southwestern corner.

Subdivision

Lübras counts 3 zones (Ortslagen) :

• AEG-Siedlung
• Andreas-Rabe-Siedlung
• Kienwerder

Transport

The locality is not served by rails; only its southern borders with Märkisches Viertel are crossed by the Industrial railway Tegel-Friedrichsfelde. Bus line

Bus transport in Berlin

The Bus transport in Berlin , operated by BVG, is the public bus service network of Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1846, it represents the oldest public transport service of the city...

222 serves the locality.

Literature

• W. Ribbe, J. Schmädeke: "Kleine Berlin-Geschichte", Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-877762-22-0

External links

Lübars page of Reinickendorfer site