Neu-Hohenschönhausen 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) in 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 Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-Overview:...

, Berlin

Berlin

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. Until 2001 it was part of the former Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen was a borough of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. It was composed by the localities of Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Malchow, Wartenberg and Falkenberg.-Overview:...

 borough.

History

The locality, still inhabited in 19th century, hadn't a different name from Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Alt-Hohenschönhausen is a German locality in the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Known also as Hohenschönhausen it was, until 2001, the main and the eponymous locality of the former Hohenschönhausen borough.-History:The locality, first mentioned in 1230, was an autonomous municipality still...

 as part of it. The designation was used from the 1960s for this local part, to distinguish it from the old town .

Position

Neu-Hohenschönhausen is located in north-eastern suburb of Berlin. It borders with the localities of Malchow

Malchow (Berlin)

Malchow is a German locality in the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former Hohenschönhausen borough. With a population of 450 it is the least-populated Berliner Ortsteil.-History:...

, Falkenberg

Falkenberg (Berlin)

Falkenberg is a German locality within the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-History:...

, Wartenberg

Wartenberg (Berlin)

Wartenberg is a German locality within the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-History:...

, Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Alt-Hohenschönhausen is a German locality in the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Known also as Hohenschönhausen it was, until 2001, the main and the eponymous locality of the former Hohenschönhausen borough.-History:The locality, first mentioned in 1230, was an autonomous municipality still...

, Weißensee, 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:...

 (both in Pankow

Pankow

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 district) and Marzahn

Marzahn

Marzahn is a locality within the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin. Berlin's 2001 administrative reform led to the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf fusing into a single new borough...

 (in Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Marzahn-Hellersdorf is the tenth borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf.-Geography:It is situated in the northeast of Berlin...

 district).

Subdivision

The locality is divided into 4 zones (Ortsgebiete):

• Neubaugebiet Krummer Pfuhl
• Neubaugebiet Vincent-van-Gogh-Straße
• Neubaugebiet Mühlengrund
• Neubaugebiet Zingster Straße

Transport

The locality is served by some lines of Berliner tram network and 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...

stations of Hohenschönhausen (S75

S75 (Berlin)

S75 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Wartenberg to Spandau over:*a section of the Outer ring, completed in the early 1940s as part of the Outer freight ring,...

 line + DB

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

), Gehrenseestraße (S75) and Wartenberg (S75).

Literature

• Walter Püschel: "Spaziergänge in Hohenschönhausen" - Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-7759-0398-4

External links

Neu-Hohenschönhausen page on www.berlin.de