Gesundbrunnen | |
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 Panorama from the Humboldthain | |
Location of Gesundbrunnen in Mitte district and Berlin  | |
  Gesundbrunnen  Gesundbrunnen | |
| Coordinates:52°32′55″N13°23′25″E / 52.54861°N 13.39028°E /52.54861; 13.39028 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Mitte |
| Founded | 1251 |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.13 km2 (2.37 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 95,832 |
| • Density | 16,000/km2 (40,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 13347, 13355, 13357, 13359, 13409 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
Gesundbrunnen (German:[ɡəˈzʊntˌbʁʊnən]ⓘ, literally "health springs"; colloquiallyPlumpe, "pump") is a locality (Ortsteil) ofBerlin in theborough (Bezirk) ofMitte. It was created as a separate entity during the2001 administrative reform, formerly the eastern half of the formerWedding district (merged into Mitte) and locality. Gesundbrunnen has the highest percentage of non-German residents of any Berlin locality, at 35.1% as of the end of 2008.[2]
The locality is situated in Berlin'sinner city, at the north-eastern rim of the central Mitte borough.Bernauer Straße separates it from the locality ofMitte in the south and Reinickendorfer Straße fromWedding in the west. In the north Gesundbrunnen borders withReinickendorf (in theReinickendorf borough) while in the east theMauerpark and theNordbahn railway line forms the border withPrenzlauer Berg andPankow, both localities of thePankow borough. Gesundbrunnen was laid out in what came to be known as theWilhelmine Ring, an area whose street network was laid out in theHobrecht-Plan.
The locality adopted its name from amineral spring first documented by chemistAndreas Sigismund Marggraf about 1748, later site of the Luisenbad spa, named after QueenLouise of Prussia. The area became a popular destination for day-trippers and, after its incorporation into the city of Berlin in 1861, a densely settledworking-class district. From 1905 the sports field near theBerlin-Gesundbrunnen station, laterStadion am Gesundbrunnen, was the home ground of theHertha BSC Berlin football club.
TheHumboldthainurban park, finished in 1876, from 1942 was the site of two largeflak towers. The northern tower, due to its location near theRingbahn tracks, was not blown up afterWorld War II. Partly interred by rubble it today serves as a viewpoint andclimbing wall with tours through the interior available.
From 1949 Gesundbrunnen (as part of Wedding) belonged to theFrench sector ofWest Berlin, while the neighbouring localities of Mitte, Pankow and Prenzlauer Berg were parts ofEast Berlin. The border between the sectors and, from 1961 to 1989, theBerlin Wall ran along the Nordbahn railway and the dividedBernauer Straße. This street became famous for tunnels dug under it as well as for daring escape jumps from windows of the apartment blocks in the eastern part of the city, down to the street which itself belonged to the French sector. On the evening of 9 November 1989 the border crossing atBornholmer Straße station was the first to open, allowing East Berliners to pass freely toward the west.
The area is one of the few localities of the formerwestern sector served bytramways (lines M10, M13 and 50). It is also served by manyS-Bahn lines (S1,S2,S25,S4,S8 andS85) andU-Bahn (U8 andU9). Its main station is the eponymous one,Gesundbrunnen, which was upgraded in 2006 for long distance trains. Other stations areBornholmer Straße,Humboldthain,Nordbahnhof (the former Stettiner Bahnhof),Wollankstraße,Nauener Platz,Osloer Straße,Pankstraße andVoltastraße.
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