Alt-Hohenschönhausen
Alt-Hohenschönhausen is a locality (Ortsteil) in the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg, Berlin.
Alt-Hohenschönhausen is a locality (Ortsteil) in the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Known also as Hohenschönhausen it was, until 2001, the main and the eponymous locality of the former Hohenschönhausen borough. In 2023, the population was about 51,000.
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Worth seeing in and around Alt-Hohenschönhausen
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Khadija Mosque
The Khadija Mosque is a mosque located in Heinersdorf, Pankow, Berlin, Germany. Opened on 16 October 2008, it was the first mosque in former East Germany.
6 km · mosque in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Weißer See
Weißer See is a lake in the Weissensee district of Berlin, Germany. Its surface area is 8.3011ha and volume 360,606m3.
5.7 km · lake in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association in Berlin is one of the 18 institutions that make up the Helmholtz Association. It combines basic molecular biology research with clinical research and is dedicated to the research foci of systems medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
2.9 km · research institute · Wikipedia - 04Orankesee
Orankesee is a lake in Berlin, Germany. Its surface area is 4.0546 hectares.
5.8 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia - 05Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie
The Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie is a research institute in the Leibniz Association, focussing on proteins as basic structures of cellular organisms. It is one of the large number of research institutions based in Berlin.
2.9 km · Berlin research institute in the Leibniz Association · Wikipedia - 06Tabor Church
Tabor Church is the church of the Evangelical Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Congregation, a member of today's Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The church building is located in the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg, in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen.
5.5 km · Church building in Berlin Alt-Hohenschönhausen · Wikipedia - 07Karpfenteich
Karpfenteich is a lake in Pankow, Berlin, Germany.
5 km · lake in Pankow, Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alt-Hohenschönhausen
- Airports
- Berlin Brandenburg (BER), 26 km · Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów (SZZ), 144 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 157 km
- Stations
- Röntgental station, 5.6 km · Berlin-Karow railway station, 3.2 km · Berlin-Hohenschönhausen railway station, 3.6 km · Berlin-Buch station, 4.3 km · Wartenberg S-Bahn station, 2.9 km
- Schkeuditz → Alt-Hohenschönhausen155 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €18–25
- Dresden → Alt-Hohenschönhausen167 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €19–27
- Erfurt → Alt-Hohenschönhausen243 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · €31–43
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alt-Hohenschönhausen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alt-Hohenschönhausen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn the summer bus 218 takes you along the scenic ride through the Grunewald forest in West Berlin, starting at the subway station Theodor-Heuss-Platz (U2) and ending near the famous Pfaueninsel in South West Berlin, where you can take a small ferry to said island and visit the park and the small castle there.
- Get aroundFerries usually have space for bike but can get crowded during peak times and good weather.
- Get aroundDespite not being a maritime city like Hamburg or Venice, Berlin does have usable waterways and the BVG run a couple of ferries, which can be accessed with regular BVG tickets.
- Get aroundMost of the ferries are of local interest only, but the Ferry line F10 covers across the Wannsee and connects to the S-Bahn at one end.
- Get aroundMore of a tourist attraction than actual practical transportation is Ferry F24, which is the only ferry operated by a rowing boat in Berlin and the only rowing boat ferry that is part of any public transit ticketing system in Germany.
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Next door to Alt-Hohenschönhausen
Alt-Hohenschönhausen is 11 km from Berlin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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