Lichtenberg

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This article is about the district in Berlin. For other uses, see Lichtenberg (disambiguation).

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Area:	52.29 km²
Inhabitants:	257,539 (2007)
Population density:	4,925 inhabitants per km²
Website:	Official homepage
Politics
Mayor of Borough:	Christina Emmrich (The Left)
Parliament of Borough (BVV):	The Left Party.PDS 23, SPD 17, CDU 5, Alliance '90/The Greens 3, NPD 3, FDP 2, WASG 2 (last election 2006)

Localities of Lichtenberg

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

[edit] Overview

The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin's two zoological gardens. Lichtenberg was also the site of the extensive headquarters complex of the Stasi, the East German intelligence service. The complex is now a museum. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is on the site of the main remand prison of the Stasi. Some areas of Lichtenberg such as Weitlingstraße (street) are notorious for being a Neo-Nazi stronghold of Berlin.

[edit] Subdivision

Lichtenberg is divided into 10 localities:

[edit] History

The historic village of Lichtenberg together with neighbouring Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst, Marzahn, Biesdorf, Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf was incorporated as the 17th borough of Berlin by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act.

In the 1970s the East German government had large housing estates (Plattenbau) built in the east of the Lichtenberg borough. These parts were separated as the new borough of Marzahn including Biesdorf, Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf in 1979. In 1986 this district in turn was split into the two boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf in 1986 and again merged as Marzahn-Hellersdorf by the 2001 administrative reform.