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8 unusual facts about Neukölln


Barry Burns

Along with wife Rachel, Burns owns the bar Das Gift in the Neukölln district of Berlin.

John Sieg

Upon his release, he began working with the Communist Resistance in the Berlin suburb of Neukölln, becoming the focal point of several groups.

Kurt Löwenstein

From 1921 Löwenstein was responsible for education in the City Council of Berlin – Neukölln.

Leo Arons

He was a representative in the Berlin district of Neukölln, where the Aronsstraße was named after him in 1973 (called Leo-Arons-Straße from 1926 and 1934, and Sackführerdamm from 1934 to 1973).

Neuköln

Neukölln (correctly spelled with a double "L") is a district of Berlin.

Ratzeputz

There are several bars in Germany which specialize in serving Ratzeputz, the most notable of which is 'Ratzeputz Bar' on Weserstrasse, Neukölln, Berlin.

Torsten Spanneberg

His trainer is Norbert Warnatzach and his club is S.G. Neukölln.

Werner Seelenbinder

On 2 August 2004 a commemorative speech was held in front of the Neukölln stadium, where Seelenbinder's ashes were buried, by the German socialist PDS party, one hundred years after Seelenbinder's birth.


Berlin-Neukölln station

The front of the S-Bahn-Station Neukölln is heavily featured in the German documentary Neukölln Unlimited, where the film's protagonists spend a lot of their time.

Bundesautobahn 100

It is connected with the Bundesautobahn 111 (A 111) at the Charlottenburg interchange, with the A 115 (the former AVUS) at the Funkturm junction, and finally reaches the A 113 at its southeastern terminus in Neukölln, all linking it with the outer Berliner Ring A 10.

The A 100 encloses the city centre of the German capital Berlin, running from the Wedding district of the Berlin-Mitte borough in a southwestern bow through Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg to Neukölln.

Neukölln Unlimited

Neukölln Unlimited can best be described as a musical film that deals with the topic of integration of immigrant youth living in neglected urban areas.

Neuköln

Bowie lived in Berlin for a time in 1977, although not in Neukölln but in Schöneberg.

Paul Piechowski

In 1919 he joined the "religious-socialist movement" and started to work as a Pastor in Berlin-Neukölln until 1928, from 1928 until 1934 in Berlin-Britz.


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