Mitte

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Sign	Map
	The location of Mitte in Berlin.
Area:	39.47 km²
Inhabitants:	327,494 (2007)
Population density:	8,297 inhabitants per km²
Website:	official homepage (German)
Politics
Mayor of Borough:	Christian Hanke (SPD)
Parliament of Borough (BVV):	SPD 19, CDU 11, Alliance '90/The Greens 11, The Left Party.PDS 7, FDP 3, The Greys 2, WASG 2 (last election 2006)

Berlin-Mitte or Mitte is the first and most central borough of Berlin (Mitte is German for middle). Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core. The area includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin (like the Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden and the Reichstag among others), most of which were in East Berlin.

In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were reorganized. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within former East Berlin, was combined with the boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten (both of which belonged to West Berlin) to form the new Mitte borough.

Contents 1 Localities of the Mitte borough 2 Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality 3 Twin towns 4 External links

[edit] Localities of the Mitte borough

The new borough of Mitte consists of six localities:

• Mitte

(the former Mitte borough)

• Moabit
• Hansaviertel
• Tiergarten

(the former Tiergarten borough)

• Wedding
• Gesundbrunnen

(the former Wedding borough)

[edit] Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality

• Cölln (1)
  • Museum Island (1a)
  • Fischer Island (1b)
• Altberlin (2)
  • Nikolaiviertel (2a)
• Friedrichswerder (3)
• Neukölln am Wasser (4)
• Dorotheenstadt (5)
• Friedrichstadt (6)
• Luisenstadt (7)
• Stralauer Vorstadt (8)
• Alexanderplatz (9)
• Spandauer Vorstadt (10)
  • Scheunenviertel (10a)
• Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt (11)
• Oranienburger Vorstadt (12)
• Rosenthaler Vorstadt (13)

[edit] Twin towns

• Higashiōsaka, Japan since 1959
• Holon, Israel since 1970
• Bottrop, Germany since 1983
• Schwalm-Eder-Kreis since 1992
• Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan since 1994
• Tsuwano, Japan since 1995
• Tourcoing, France since 1995
• VI. kerület (Terézváros), Budapest, Hungary since 2005
• Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia since 2006

[edit] External links

• Official homepage (German)
• Official homepage of Berlin (English)
• Travel Video about Mitte

v • d • e Boroughs and localities of Berlin Boroughs (since 2001) Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf • Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg • Lichtenberg • Marzahn-Hellersdorf • Mitte • Neukölln • Pankow • Reinickendorf • Spandau • Steglitz-Zehlendorf • Tempelhof-Schöneberg • Treptow-Köpenick West boroughs (1920–2001) Charlottenburg • Kreuzberg • Neukölln • Reinickendorf • Schöneberg • Spandau • Steglitz • Tempelhof • Tiergarten • Wedding • Wilmersdorf • Zehlendorf East boroughs (1920–2001) Friedrichshain • Hellersdorf (1986) • Hohenschönhausen (1985) • Köpenick • Lichtenberg • Marzahn (1979) • Mitte • Pankow • Prenzlauer Berg • Treptow • Weissensee Localities Adlershof • Britz • Dahlem • Friedenau • Frohnau • Gatow • Grunewald • Hansaviertel • Haselhorst • Heiligensee • Heinersdorf • Hermsdorf • Karlshorst • Kaulsdorf • Kladow • Lichterfelde • Mariendorf • Marienfelde • Märkisches Viertel • Moabit • Rosenthal • Staaken • Tegel • Wannsee • Westend

Coordinates: 52°31′N 13°22′E / 52.517, 13.367