The Arkenberge is a hill in the

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municipality of

Blankenfelde Blankenfelde () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') located within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Pankow. Of the city's 95 localities, it is the least densely populated. History Blankenfelde was founded around 1375 and was integrated into Berlin in ...

in the borough of Pankow. The name was originally given to a natural

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on the site, and the nearby settlement of Arkenberge was named after that chain of little hills. In 1984 a rubble heap for building waste was established east of this settlement. In January 2015, it was determined that the top of this tip had reached a height of .''Vermessen''. In: ''

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'', 24 February 2015, p. 15
online (with another title)
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, superseding the

Teufelsberg Teufelsberg (; German for ''Devil's Mountain'') is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about above the surrounding Teltow plateau and above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Gr ...

. However, the highest natural point in Berlin is the

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().Catrin Gottschalk, Vermessungsamt Treptow-Köpenick: ' In: Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick von Berlin (publ.): ''Rathaus Journal Treptow-Köpenick'', 11/2006, p. 5.

History

The original Arkenberge were a natural hillock chain of

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origin. On a 1911 survey map, its highest point is given as 70.3 metres. In the course of the 20th century, it was largely dug out. In addition, in the 1950s the railway track bed of the Berlin Outer Ring was laid through the area. The highest point of the remaining hill chain is 64.8 metres above sea level; the surrounding terrain lies between 53 and 57 metres. In the 1930s, the settlement of Arkenberge grew up in the local area. In 1984, a construction waste site was established east of the settlement on a 36-hectare site. In 1998, the dumping of building waste was ended, but in 1999 more construction waste was used to profile and recultivate the landfill site. As part of that, it was planned to create a hill with two observation plateaux, optically separated by a

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. Around 2000, plans crystallised, to make the area around the Arkenberge into a recreation area. The summit was opened to the public in 2019.''Arkenberge schlägt Teufelsberg''.
In: ''Pankower Allgemeine Zeitung'', 28 January 2015. Arkenberge (2)

On the occasion of the new survey in 2015 a

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with an inscription recording its status as Berlin's highest point, was placed on the summit.

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Konzept für den Erholungsschwerpunkt Arkenberge
p. 33. Hills of Berlin Artificial hills

History

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