Konradshöhe () is a German locality () within the

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() of

Reinickendorf Reinickendorf () is the twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates like Märkisches Viertel. Subd ...

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History

In the course of the northern extension of Berlin during the 19th century, many people settled in the suburbs, attracted by the proximity to nature and the low price of land. One of them was the

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August Friedrich Theodor Rohmann. In 1865 he acquired a property by the

Havel The Havel () is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the States of Germany, states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt. The long Havel is a right tributary of the Elbe. However, the direct distance from ...

originally intending to establish a

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. The settlement was officially established in 1868 and named "Conrads Höh", after the oldest son of Rohmann. Part of the municipality of

Heiligensee Heiligensee () is a locality within Reinickendorf, a borough of the German capital, Berlin. Geography Overview Situated at Berlin's north-western border on the shores of the Havel river, Heiligensee shares borders with the towns of Hennigsdorf an ...

, Konradshöhe merged into Berlin in 1920 with the "

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". During the

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it was part of

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with a short border to

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defined by the

. In that place the

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was built beyond this river.

Geography

Overview

Located in the north-west of Berlin, Konradshöhe is separated from the locality of Hakenfelde (in ''Bezirk''

Spandau Spandau () is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs of Berlin, boroughs () of Berlin, situated at the confluence (geography), confluence of the Havel and Spree (river), Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smalle ...

) by the river Havel, from

Tegel Tegel () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf on the shore of Lake Tegel. The Tegel locality, the second largest in area (after Köpenick) of the 96 Berlin districts, also includes the neighbourhood of ''Saatwinke ...

and

by the eponymous forest. The river also separates Konradshöhe from the

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er municipality of

Hennigsdorf Hennigsdorf () is a town in the district of Oberhavel, in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. It is situated north-west of Berlin, just across the city border, which is formed mainly by the Havel river. History The town was first mentioned in 1375, ...

(in

Oberhavel Oberhavel is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Its neighbouring districts are (clockwise from the north): Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the districts of Uckermark and Ba ...

district).

Subdivision

Konradshöhe is divided into 2 zones (''Ortslagen''): * Jörsfelde * Tegelort Jörsfelde, the biggest one, is situated in the north with its center located in the square ''Falkenplatz''.; Tegelort is the southern side located in a

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formed by the Havel river and

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. See map

Transport

The locality is not served by railways, but by the bus lines 222 and 324 and also by a couple of private ferry lines to Hakenfelde.

Personalities

* Jörg Draeger (b. 1944), anchorman * Kim Fisher (b. 1969), singer and anchorman

Photogallery

File:Tegelort2.JPG, View of Tegelort File:Tegelort1402.JPG, The ferry "Feen-Grotte" on the Havel File:StraßenbahnTegelort.jpg, The old tramway at ''Barschelplatz'' in 1913 File:Tegelort Übersichtskarte.jpg, Map of Tegelort

References

Literature

* Jörg Müller: "''Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Ortsteile Konradshöhe – Tegelort – Joersfelde''", Jahrbuch des Landesarchivs Berlin, 1990

External links

Konradshöhe page of Reinickendorfer site
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