Lichtenberg
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| Area: | 52.29 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 257,539 (2007) |
| Population density: | 4,925 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | Official homepage |
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| 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) |
Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.
Lichtenberg contains the Tierpark Berlin, the larger of Berlin's two zoological parks. 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 the Lichtenberg locality around the Weitlingstraße street are notorious for being a Neo-Nazi stronghold of Berlin.
The Hans-und-Hilde-Coppi-Oberschule is situated in the south of Lichtenberg. It is one of Berlin's best Gymnasiums(secondary school).
[edit] Localities
- Friedrichsfelde
- Karlshorst
- Lichtenberg
- Falkenberg
- Malchow
- Wartenberg
- Neu-Hohenschönhausen
- Alt-Hohenschönhausen
- Fennpfuhl
- Rummelsburg
[edit] Twin towns
The Lichtenberg borough has five twin towns:
5. district, Maputo, Mozambique since 1995
Białołęka, Warsaw, Poland since 2000
Kaliningrad, Russia since 2001- Hajnówka County, Poland since 2001
Jurbarkas district municipality, Lithuania since 2003
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