Rummelsburg

For the town in Poland, see Miastko. For the train station, see Berlin-Rummelsburg railway station.

Rummelsburg
Quarter of Berlin
Tuchollaplatz (Victoriastadt) Tuchollaplatz (Victoriastadt)
Rummelsburg
Location of Rummelsburg in Lichtenberg district and Berlin 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Lichtenberg
Founded	1669
Area
• Total	4.52 km2 (1.75 sq mi)
Population (2008-06-30)
• Total	17,567
• Density	3,900/km2 (10,000/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	(nr. 1112) 10317
Vehicle registration	B

Rummelsburg is a German locality (Ortsteil) in the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg, Berlin.

History

The locality was founded in 1669 and on January 30, 1889 became a rural municipality, with the name of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg. Merged in 1912 in the town of Lichtenberg, in 1920 it was incorporated in Berlin with the Greater Berlin Act.

Geography

Overview

Located in the eastern side of the city and crossed by Spree river in the western corner, Rummelsburg borders with Lichtenberg, Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst, Friedrichshain (in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district), Plänterwald and Oberschöneweide (both in Treptow-Köpenick district). The lake Rummelsburger See belongs to the locality and separates it from Stralau, a zone of Friedrichshain.

Subdivision

Rummelsburg counts 1 zone (Ortslage):

• Victoriastadt

Transport

The locality is served by several urban rail lines of S-Bahn and U-Bahn. The stations serving the locality are Rummelsburg (S3 line), Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg (S3), Nöldnerplatz (S5, S7, S75), partly Ostkreuz (S3, S4, S5, S7, S75, S8, S85, S9) and part of the DB station of Lichtenberg (S5, S7, S75, U5, Tram).

Personalities

• Adolph Schlicht (1840–1910)
• Heinrich Zille (1858–1929)
• Margarete Steffin (1908–1941)

Photogallery

• Berlin-Noeldnerplatz.JPG

  Nöldnerplatz

• Berlin, Rummelsburger See, Wohnanlage Hauptstrasse.jpg

  The Rummelsburger See

• Muensterlandplatz 2.jpg

  Münsterlandplatz

• Berlin-Rummelsburg Kraftwerk Klingenberg.jpg

  Klingenberg power station

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• (German) Rummelsburg page on www.berlin.de