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11 unusual facts about Pankow


Adolph Diesterweg

In 1846, he established the Pestalozzi institution at Pankow, and the Pestalozzi societies for the support of teachers’ widows and orphans.

Arthur Richard Jelf

Sir Arthur Richard Jelf (September 10, 1837, Pankow, near Berlin - July 24, 1917, Putney) was an English judge.

Bioscop

The Bioscop was a movie projector developed in 1895 by the brothers Emil and Max Skladanowsky in Berlin-Pankow.

Bundesautobahn 10

From here the beltway runs northwards to the Havelland interchange with the Bundesautobahn 24 to Hamburg, and finally turns eastwards to the Oranienburg and Pankow interchanges with the Bundesautobahn 111 and Bundesautobahn 114 motorways both leading to the Berliner Stadtring.

Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer

In 1895 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, and subsequently worked at a private mental health institution in Pankow-Berlin.

Georg Groscurth

Furthermore, a street in the Pankow section of Berlin was named Groscurthstraße in his honour on 31 August 1977.

Pankow

The borough named after the Panke river covers the northeast of the city region, including the inner city locality of Prenzlauer Berg.

Prenzlauer Allee

It starts at Prenzlauer Tor, formerly the site of a historic city gate on the road to Prenzlau, leading uphill northwards to the border with the Pankow district, where it continues as Prenzlauer Promenade.

Prenzlauer Allee is a major avenue in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital Berlin and one of the main thoroughfares of the north-eastern Pankow borough.

Schwedter Straße

The street separates the districts of Mitte and the Pankow.

VfL Nord Berlin

In March 1933, Favorit was joined by the membership of Pankower SC 08 Adler, a left-leaning worker's club banned under the policies of the Nazis which led to the breakup of clubs with undesirable political or regligious affiliations.


Schönhausen Palace

In 1662 Countess Sophie Theodore, a scion of the Holland-Brederode family and wife of the Brandenburg general Christian Albert of Dohna, acquired the lands Niederschönhausen and Pankow, then far north of the Berlin city gates.