Luisenstadt () is a former quarter (''

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'') of central

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, now divided between the present localities of Mitte and

Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it ha ...

. It gave its name to the

Luisenstadt Canal The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and s ...

and the

Luisenstädtische Kirche The Luisenstädtische Kirche was a church building in Berlin, in the former Luisenstadt district (now part of the Berlin-Mitte and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg districts), on Alte Jacobstraße between Sebastianstraße and Stallschreiberstraße. It was ...

History

The area of the neighbourhood was originally named ''Myrica'' and was acquired in 1261 by the city of Cölln.Luisenstadt in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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Geography

Luisenstadt is bounded on the north by the river

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, in the west by the Lindenstraße (in Friedrichstadt), and in the south by the

Landwehrkanal The Landwehr Canal (german: Landwehrkanal), is a canal parallel to the Spree river in Berlin, Germany, built between 1845 and 1850 to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné. It connects the upper part of the Spree at the eastern harbour () in Friedr ...

. A smaller part of the zone now belongs to Mitte (in the same-named district) and the greater part to

(in

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg () is the second borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former East Berlin borough of Friedrichshain and the former West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg. The historic Oberbaum Bridge, formerly a Berlin border c ...

district).

Main sights

* Emmaus Church * Evangelical-Lutheran (Old-Lutheran) Church * Görlitzer Bahnhof * St. Jacob's Church * Jannowitzbrücke *

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* Lausitzer Platz *

* Luisenstadt Church * Mariannenplatz * St. Michael's Church * Moritzplatz *

Oberbaumbrücke The Oberbaum Bridge (german: Oberbaumbrücke) is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has ...

Oranienplatz Oranienplatz is a square in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. From 2012 until 2014 it was the site of the OPlatz (Oranienplatz) Movement The "OPlatz" (Oranienplatz) movement was a pro-immigration protest movement that worked for an open-arms pol ...

* St. Thomas Church * Wassertorplatz

References

External links

Luisenstadt civic association

Luisenstadt cultural websiteMap of Luisenstadt on Berlin official site
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