Mitte 387785 222058170 2008-06-27T10:40:51Z 85.177.90.135 {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="right" style="margin-left:0.5em;" width="150" ! bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Sign ! bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Map |- | align="center" | [[Image:Coat of arms of borough Mitte.svg|100px|Sign of Mitte]] | align="center" | [[Image:Berlin_mitte.png|thumb|The location of Mitte in Berlin.]] |- | [[Area]]: || 39.47 km² |- | [[Population|Inhabitants]]: || 327,494 ''<small>(2007)</small>'' |- | [[Population density]]: || 8,297 inhabitants per km² |- | Website: || [http://www.berlin-mitte.de official homepage] {{de icon}} |- ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Politics |- | [[Mayor]] of Borough: || Christian Hanke ([[Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|SPD]]) |- | Parliament of Borough (''BVV''): || [[SPD]] 19, [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] 11, [[Alliance '90/The Greens]] 11, [[The Left Party.PDS]] 7, [[Freie Demokratische Partei|FDP]] 3, [[Grey Panthers Party of Germany|The Greys]] 2, [[WASG]] 2 (last election 2006) |} [[Image:Sitzverteilung BVV Mitte 2006.png|thumb|310px]] [[Image:Berlin Mitte.png|thumb|Mitte's localities]] [[Image:Stadtviertel in Berlin-Mitte.png|thumb|Neighbourhoods]] '''Berlin-Mitte''' or '''Mitte''' is the first and most central [[boroughs and localities of Berlin|borough]] of [[Berlin]] (''Mitte'' is [[German language|German]] for middle). Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core. The area includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin (like the [[Museum Island]], [[Brandenburg Gate]], [[Unter den Linden]] and the [[Reichstag building|Reichstag]] among others), most of which were in [[East Berlin]]. In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were [[berlin's 2001 administrative reform|reorganized]]. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within former [[East Berlin]], was combined with the boroughs of [[Wedding (Berlin)|Wedding]] and [[Tiergarten]] (both of which belonged to [[West Berlin]]) to form the new Mitte borough. ==Localities of the Mitte borough== The new borough of Mitte consists of six localities: *Mitte (the former Mitte borough) *[[Moabit]] *[[Hansaviertel]] *[[Tiergarten]] (the former Tiergarten borough) *[[Wedding (Berlin)|Wedding]] *[[Gesundbrunnen]] (the former Wedding borough) ==Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality== [[Image:View over Berlin Mitte.jpg|jpg|upright=2.5|thumb|View over Berlin Mitte borough]] *[[Cölln]] (1) **[[Museum Island]] (1a) **[[Fischer Island]] (1b) *[[Altberlin]] (2) **[[Nikolaiviertel]] (2a) *[[Friedrichswerder]] (3) *[[Neukölln am Wasser]] (4) *[[Dorotheenstadt]] (5) *[[Friedrichstadt (Berlin)|Friedrichstadt]] (6) *[[Luisenstadt]] (7) *[[Stralauer Vorstadt]] (8) *[[Alexanderplatz]] (9) *[[Spandauer Vorstadt]] (10) **[[Scheunenviertel]] (10a) *[[Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt]] (11) *[[Oranienburger Vorstadt]] (12) *[[Rosenthaler Vorstadt]] (13) ==Twin towns== *{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Higashiōsaka, Osaka|Higashiōsaka]], [[Japan]] since 1959 *{{flagicon|Israel}} [[Holon]], [[Israel]] since 1970 *{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Bottrop]], [[Germany]] since 1983 *{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Schwalm-Eder-Kreis]] since 1992 *{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinjuku, Tokyo|Shinjuku]], [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] since 1994 *{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Tsuwano, Shimane|Tsuwano]], [[Japan]] since 1995 *{{flagicon|France}} [[Tourcoing]], [[France]] since 1995 *{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[List of districts in Budapest|VI. kerület]] (Terézváros), [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] since 2005 *{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Central Administrative Okrug]], [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] since 2006 ==External links== *[http://www.berlin-mitte.de/ Official homepage] {{de icon}} *[http://www.berlin.de/english/ Official homepage of Berlin] {{en icon}} {{Boroughs of Berlin}} {{coord|52|31|N|13|22|E|display=title|region:DE-BE_type:adm2nd_source:fiwiki}} [[Category:Districts of Berlin]] [[da:Berlin Mitte]] [[de:Bezirk Mitte]] [[eo:Berlin-Mitte]] [[es:Berlín-Mitte]] [[fr:Berlin-Mitte]] [[id:Mitte]] [[it:Mitte (distretto di Berlino)]] [[he:מיטה (שכונה)]] [[la:Media (regio Berolini)]] [[nl:Mitte (district)]] [[no:Mitte]] [[ro:Centru (Berlin)]] [[simple:Berlin-Mitte]] [[sr:Мите]] [[fi:Mitte]] [[sv:Bezirk Mitte]]