Niederschöneweide (, literally ''Lower Schöneweide'') is a German

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(''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of

Treptow-Köpenick Treptow-Köpenick () is the ninth Boroughs of Berlin, borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick. The borough was formerly part of East Berlin. Overview Among ...

. It is, with

Oberschöneweide Oberschöneweide (, literally ''Upper Schöneweide'') is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Treptow-Köpenick. It is, with Niederschöneweide (''Lower Schöneweide''), part of the geographic area of Schöne ...

(''Upper Schöneweide''), part of the geographic quarter of Schöneweide. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of

Treptow Treptow () was a former borough in the southeast of Berlin. It merged with Köpenick to form Treptow-Köpenick in 2001. Geography The district was composed by the localities of Alt-Treptow, Plänterwald, Baumschulenweg, Niederschönewei ...

History

First mentioned in 1598 as ''Schöne Weyde'', it became an autonomous municipality in 1850, growing as an industrial town at the end of 19th century. In 1920 it merged into Berlin with the "

Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act (), officially Law Regarding the Creation of the New Municipality of Berlin (), was a law passed by the Prussian state government in 1920, which greatly expanded the size of the Prussian and German capital of Berlin. Hist ...

". From 1938, the local battery factory used Jews as forced labourers, and later also French prisoners of war and Soviet civilians, and in 1944–1945 it housed a subcamp of the

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners t ...

for 500 mostly Polish and Belgian women. Between 1949 and 1990 it was part of

East Berlin East Berlin (; ) was the partially recognised capital city, capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French se ...

, and new residential complexes were established at Oberspree. All the industries on the territory were converted into ''

Volkseigener Betrieb The Publicly Owned Enterprise (; abbreviated VEB) was the main legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany. These state-owned enterprise were all publicly owned and were formed after mass nationalisation between 1945 and the early 1960s, ...

'' (VEB), the state-owned enterprises. In 1994, after

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

, it started a plan for a redevelopment of many contaminated grounds on many areas, inheritance of the heavy industrial era. They must be cleared away and detoxified with high costs.

Geography

Overview

Located in the south-eastern side of the city and crossed by the river Spree, Niederschöneweide borders with the localities of

, Plänterwald, Baumschulenweg, Johannisthal,

Adlershof Adlershof (, literally "Eagle's Court") is a locality (') in the Boroughs of Berlin, borough (') Treptow-Köpenick of Berlin, Germany. Adlershof is home to the new City of Science, Technology and Media (WISTA), located on the southwestern edge of ...

and

Köpenick Köpenick () is a historic town and locality (''Ortsteil'') in Berlin, situated at the confluence of the rivers Dahme and Spree in the south-east of the German capital. It was formerly known as Copanic and then Cöpenick, only officially ado ...

. A bit of the urban parks '' Köllnische Heide'', situated in Adlershof, belongs to the quarter.

Subdivision

Niederschöneweide counts 1 zone (''Ortslage''): * Oberspree

Transport

As urban railways, Niederschöneweide is served both by ''

S-Bahn The S-Bahn ( , ), , is a hybrid urban rail, urban–suburban rail system serving a metropolitan region predominantly in German language, German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit syst ...

'' and tramway lines. The railway stations serving the locality are Schöneweide ( S45, S46, S47, S8, S85 and S9 lines+ DB regional service), Johannisthal (S45, S46, S8, S85, S9) and Oberspree (S47). The tramway lines, crossing Brückenstraße and Michael-Brückner Straße, are the M17, 21, 27, 63 and 67.

Photos

File:Niederschöneweide5.JPG, Industrial building over the Spree File:Niederschöneweide4.JPG, Old

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File:Niederschöneweide3.JPG, Stubenrauch bridge to Oberschöneweide File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0627-0021-001, Berlin, Strandbad Oberspree.jpg, The Oberspree beach in 1970

Personalities

* Ernst Schneller (1890–1944)

References

External links

Niederschöneweide official website

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