Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg is a quarter of Berlin in the homonymous borough of Lichtenberg.
Lichtenberg is a quarter of Berlin in the homonymous borough of Lichtenberg. Until 2001 it was an autonomous district with the localities of Fennpfuhl, Rummelsburg, Friedrichsfelde and Karlshorst.
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Worth seeing in and around Lichtenberg
10 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.
- 01Soviet War Memorial
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945.
3.9 km · war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park · Wikipedia - 02trams in Berlin
The Berlin tramway is the main tram system in Berlin, Germany. It is one of the oldest tram networks in the world, dating back to 1865 and is operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, which was founded in 1929.
1.8 km · tram system in Germany · Wikipedia - 03East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,316 m long remnant of the Berlin Wall, located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
3.1 km · art museum · Wikipedia - 04Berghain
Berghain is a nightclub in Berlin, Germany. It is named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain and is a short walk from Berlin Ostbahnhof main line railway station.
2.7 km · nightclub in Berlin · Wikipedia - 05Treptower Park
Treptower Park is a park alongside the river Spree in Alt-Treptow, in the district of Treptow-Köpenick, south of central Berlin.
3.5 km · park in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery is a cemetery in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It was the cemetery used for many of Berlin's Socialists, Communists, and anti-fascist fighters.
2.2 km · cemetery in Berlin, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Weißensee Cemetery
The Weißensee Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in the neighborhood of Weißensee in Berlin, Germany. It is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.
3 km · Jewish cemetery in Berlin · Wikipedia - 08Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is a museum and memorial located in Lichtenberg district, Berlin in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen, part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. It was opened in 1994 on the site of the main political prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, the Stasi.
2.7 km · museum · Wikipedia - 09Archenhold Observatory
The Archenhold Observatory was named in honour of Friedrich Simon Archenhold, is an observatory in Berlin-Treptow. It houses the Großer Refraktor, which is the longest pointable telescope in the world.
3.9 km · observatory in Berlin · Wikipedia - 10Frankfurter Tor
The Frankfurter Tor is a large square in the inner-city Friedrichshain locality of Berlin. It is situated in the centre of the district, at the intersection of Karl-Marx-Allee and Frankfurter Allee (the eastbound federal highways No.
1.9 km · square in Berlin · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lichtenberg
- Airports
- Berlin Brandenburg (BER), 18 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 149 km · Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów (SZZ), 152 km
- Stations
- Berlin Ostbahnhof railway station, 3.3 km · Berlin-Lichtenberg railway station, 1.6 km · Ostkreuz railway station, 2.1 km · Berlin Frankfurter Allee station, 900 m · Berlin Treptower Park station, 3.3 km
- Schkeuditz → Lichtenberg152 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €19–26
- Dresden → Lichtenberg33 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €5–7
- Erfurt → Lichtenberg241 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · €31–44
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lichtenberg
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 Lichtenberg. 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 Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg is 5 km from Berlin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Friedrichshain-Kreuzbergborough of Berlin, Germany3.1 km
- Friedrichshainlocality of Berlin1.8 km
- Weißenseelocality of Berlin3.3 km
- Alt-Hohenschönhausenlocality of Berlin3.6 km
- Friedrichsfeldelocality of Berlin, Germany3.2 km
- Rummelsburglocality of Berlin2.5 km