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  Prenzlauer Berg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Besides diverse tram and bus lines, Prenzlauer Berg is above all connected to the public transport net by the underground U2 (alongside Schönhauser Allee) and by the ring train S41/42 and city train S8.
Men and women of letters, cultural initiatives and students have shaped Prenzlauer Berg's image since the days of the GDR.
The district was erected for the working class in the second half of the 19th century.
www.berlin-tourist-information.de /english/berlin-infos/e_bi_bezirk-prenzlauerberg.html   (278 words)

  
  Prenzlauer Berg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prenzlauer Berg is a former borough of Berlin situated in the eastern part of the city.
In 2001 Prenzlauer Berg was combined with the former boroughs Pankow and Weißensee under the name of Pankow.
Prenzlauer Berg was developed during the second half of the 19th century based on an urban planning design from 1862 by James Hobrecht, the so-called Hobrecht Plan for Berlin.
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 Info and facts on 'Prenzlauer Berg'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Prenzlauer Berg is a former borough of Berlin (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) situated in the eastern part of the city.
In 2001 Prenzlauer Berg was combined with the former boroughs Pankow (additional info and facts about Pankow) and Weißensee under the name of Pankow.
Prenzlauer Berg was developed during the second half of the 19th century (additional info and facts about 19th century) based on an urban planning (The branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities) design from 1862 by James Hobrecht, the so-called Hobrecht Plan for Berlin.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prenzlauer_berg.htm   (353 words)

  
 German Journal of Urban Studies (DfK) | Imprint+Contact | English Version
However "gentrification" in Prenzlauer Berg presents a new pattern: it occurs rather spread out than spatially concentrated, primarily as a result of the accompanying circumstances of the post-socialist transformation of housing; district limits on rent and the means of housing programs retard the population exchange and extend the "pioneer phase".
Prenzlauer Berg is an inner-city quarter in East Berlin with old-style architecture adjacent to the city center and the government quarter, which - except for a few incomplete projects - was architecturally neglected over broad surfaces during the GDR period.
A further study of Prenzlauer Berg was able to demonstrate it thus: that with increasing chronological distance from renovation (and along with that, the rent ceiling regulation expiring) the new rental contracts in the north of Prenzlauer Berg are falling, while those renovation areas south of the S-Bahn Ring are rising (TOPOS 1999:30).
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 Building lot management / Senate Department of Urban development Berlin
Prenzlauer Berg is in many respects one of the most typical parts of Berlin, with laregely intact tenement housing from the building boom of the late 19th century.
Some 150 years ago, Prenzlauer Berg was largely open land just to the north of the historical city, but by the start of the 20th century it had become one of the most densely populated districts of Berlin.
The housing policies of East Germany concentrated on constructing new, pre-fabricated housing settlements, and much of Prenzlauer Berg, which had the Berlin Wall as one of its boundaries, was neglected for decades.
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /bauen/baulueckenmanagement/en/informationen/pankow/pankow_2.shtml   (345 words)

  
 Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin
As with most of Prenzlauer Berg, take a look sooner rather than later while the beer is still under 5 DM.
Although not very big inside, the real attraction is the tables outside on the pavement as, at the right time of day, Kastanienallee catches the sun beautifully, giving the patrons their first opportunity to use their sunglasses properly.
This is an appealing café; bar which, although not in the most attractive part of Prenzlauer Berg, is worth a visit.
www.berlinfo.com /Freetime/Food-Drink/bars/prenzlauer_berg   (1217 words)

  
 Cafe Kultur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Prenzlauer Berg was one of the great worker districts laid out around the old city (today's Berlin Mitte) in the second half of the 19th century.
Prenzlauer Berg was thronged before the war, but by the late 1980's it had taken on an abandoned feeling.
Few of Prenzlauer Berg's apartments were modernized after the war and in the 1980's many people moved out of their apartments and into the new vast concrete suburbs in the east of East Berlin, where they could have their own bathrooms and central heating.
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 Berlin Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, two historic and proud East Berlin districts, are now flooded by transplanted yuppies and dinks (double-income, no-kids couples).
In Prenzlauer Berg, once a poor area where East German punks lived, gentrification has pushed rents beyond the resources of even many young professionals.
Suddenly, western Kreuzberg and eastern Friedrichshain are one district; the same holds true for western Tiergarten and eastern Mitte, as well as for Prenzlauer Berg, Pankow, and Weissensee.
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 Berlin  Germany  - Berlin's Districts - In Your Pocket
Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg have a mix of hole-in-the-wall and trendy venues, while Friedrichshain is really for the unwashed and adventurous.
On a low hill northeast of Mitte, 'Prenzl' Berg' is an old working-class district in the former East Berlin that came through the war relatively unscathed.
One of Prenzlauer Berg’s attractions is a 19th-century brewery complex that is now the Kulturbrauerei culture centre.
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 Friedrichshain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formerly part of East Berlin, it is a central borough, adjacent to Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg.
The district is named after the Volkspark Friedrichshain, a vast green park located at the north border to Prenzlauer Berg.
Alongside the neighboring districts of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain is considered one of Berlin's most fashionable areas, and is home to numerous design and media companies including MTV Central Europe.
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 Privatzimmer (Bed & Breakfast) unterm Dach in Berlin - Germany - alternative to a hotel
y apartment is situated in Prenzlauer Berg, THE popular district in the former eastern part of Berlin.
Prenzlauer Berg, once the "cutting edge" province of the former East still has many interesting places to visit, and is nearby Friedrichshain which is becoming the new "in" district of Berlin with many interesting new venues constantly opening up.
50 sqms large guest flat in the north of the district Prenzlauer Berg, one single room and one room for 4 guests - this is with balcony, completely equipped kitchen and bathroom wir tube.
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 Press information - TIC in Prenzlauer Berg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
TIC in Prenzlauer Berg it`s called, the new tourist office which opens today in the Kessel- and Maschinenhaus of the Kulturbrauerei at the Sredzkistraße.
The „TIC in Prenzlauer Berg“ at the Schönhauser Allee 36 opens Thursday to Saturday from 12 bis 20 h and Sunday to Wednesday from 12 — 18 h.
The city, in this case the Prenzlauer Berg, is getting known in this literary acoustical city tour.Equipped with an easy to handle audio player, including headphones, a bag, a booklet and a city map you start the tour at the Kulturbrauerei.
www.tic-prenzlauerberg.de /en/Press.php   (1131 words)

  
 Gay Berlin hotels, Berlin Gay hotels
Friedrichshain and Prenzlauer Berg are part of a newer scene in the east which feels like its very alive and still developing.
Part of Prenzlauer Berg has already developed into a yuppie scene which is in sharp contrast to the more happening and less-developed parts.
Prenzlauer Berg doesn't have quite such a clutter of gay-friendly facilities as the "Gay Village" of Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg - everything that you might be looking for is evenly scattered throughout the district.
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 Berlin  Germany  - OLD 2004 - Prenzlauer Berg - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Prenzlauer Berg is where to go at night, but now that the days are warm and the sun doesn’t set until 20:00, Prenzl’berg is just as perfect a spot for a beer at high noon.
Drawn by factory work, Prenzlauer Berg residents multiplied to 350,000 by the 1920s, making the area one of the most cramped in Europe.
The post-1990 gentrification of Prenzlauer Berg began around Kollwitzplatz,which is named after the artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945).
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 Finanzamt prenzlauer berg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
BERLIN - Beautifully restored buildings from the turn of the century line the cobblestone streets of Prenzlauer Berg, and a young crowd frequents the outdoor cafes that have made the district a trendy destination in the German capital.
Now the only thing that will remind anyone it was once in the East is if Prenzlauer Berg voters tip the balance in favor of the ex-Communists on Sunday, a move that could decide the makeup of Germany's future government.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which presents the greatest threat to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's reelection, is likewise homing in on the precinct, since a PDS presence in the new parliament could siphon off just enough votes to wreck their plans to form a coalition government with the Green Party.
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 Sculpture.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This scene is from "Berlin: Views of the Prenzlauer Berg," an exhibition in the Laiterie, Strasbourg's new cultural center, financed mainly by the city of Strasbourg.
The avant-garde no longer lives in West Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood-now the liveliest area for the arts is found in Prenzlauer Berg, in the eastern part of the city.
On his kiosk for the "Prenzlauer Berg" show, an announcement calling for the registration of all young men of military age is posted next to a notice from someone looking for a lost brother.
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 washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
Dubbed "Yuppie Town Prenzlauer Berg," this old neighborhood about a mile northeast of Berlin Mitte is undergoing a blitzkrieg of gentrification.
The city has an estimated 3,000 graffiti artists, and a ride on the 1 tram along Prenzlauer Allee, which stretches from Berlin Mitte northeast to Prenzlauer Berg, is like a tour of their gallery.
Although Ruemmler wouldn't be caught dead at a rave on Oranienburger Strasse (she's a country-western music fan), she takes out-of-town friends to Prenzlauer Berg, the urban living blocks at Hellersdorf and other places in the east.
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 Berlin: modern Holiday Flat / Vacation Rental in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
It has a 22 sqms large terrace with a wonderful view over the roofs of the Prenzlauer Berg, because it is almost under the roof on the sixth floor (with elevator).
The house is situated in the "scene-area" from Berlin - close by to the Kollwitzplatz and water-tower, one of the most-frequented club and bar centres in the new Berlin.
The Prenzlauer Berg or as well simply only Prenz'lberg is one the most popular residential - and one of the main going out-districts in Berlin.
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 Letter From Berlin
The market is in the trendy neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, a short bike ride from the Regierungsviertel, the new brushed-and-polished home of the German government.
If Trittin and the Green Party should be able to count on sympathy anywhere in former East Germany it is in Prenzlauer Berg, where a bohemian-chic influx of yuppies, students and artists now coexist with the working-class families that inhabited its crumbling brick apartment buildings before the wall fell.
On one recent Saturday, the lanky Trittin, a Green from the party's left wing who as minister negotiated Germany's phased shutdown of its nuclear power plants along with an array of other impressive environmental measures, could be seen ducking out from beneath the awning of the smoked mackerel stand.
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 Prenzlauer Berg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Besides diverse tram and bus lines, Prenzlauer Berg is above all connected to the public transport net by the underground U2 (alongside Schönhauser Allee) and by the ring train S41/42 and city train S8.
Since the era of the GDR, writers, culture initiatives and students coin the image of Prenzlauer Berg which has been raised in the second half of the 19
In the southeast of Prenzlauer Berg two architecturally interesting sporting sites were erected: The Velodrom and the World Cup Swimming Stadium.
www.btm.de /english/berlin-infos/e_bi_bezirk-prenzlauerberg.html   (281 words)

  
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On the other side of the railway embankment, which is reached via the Gleim tunnel, Prenzlauer Berg, the socially and historically related municipal district in what was once East Berlin, is an example of the homogeneously dense development typical of the late 19
In Husemannstrasse route 10 encounters one of only a few exemplary redevelopment programmes, which was begun in the last few years of the GDR; the main purpose of this programme was to trace the social culture of daily life of the time around 1900.
At Käthe-Kollwitz-Platz route 10 reaches the cultural heart of the Prenzlauer Berg district.
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 Angelika Taschen's 'Berlin Interiors' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
Friedrichshain is an old working class district which has become a haven for those who have had to flee the spiralling rents and costs of the redeveloped and gentrified Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg areas.
This is the bohemian side of the city, but it’s clear that the wonderful summery existence in the photographs could make for a harsher lifestyle in the midst of a Prussian winter.
Prenzlauer Berg was a popular neighbourhood for the artists and intellectuals of former East Berlin.
www.laurahird.com /newreview/berlininteriors.html   (1770 words)

  
 Holiday home vacation rental B-Jablonski, Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg, Prenzlauer Berg, City Center, Berlin, Germany ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is located on a quiet residential street in Prenzlauer Berg, just two kilometers from the Alexanderplatz nnd is only 500 m to Kollwitz Platz.
The part of the city 'Prenzlauer Berg' was and still is a living area for common working people.
It is not an elegant area but charming due to all the old and partly renovated houses.
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