Malchow is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 locality (Ortsteil) in the borough

Boroughs and localities of Berlin

Berlin is both a city and one of Germany’s federal states. It is made up of twelve boroughs , each with its own borough government, though all boroughs are subject to Berlin’s city and state government.-History:Each borough is made up of several officially recognized localities...

 (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-Overview:...

, Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. Until 2001 it was part of the former Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen was a borough of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. It was composed by the localities of Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Malchow, Wartenberg and Falkenberg.-Overview:...

 borough. With a population of 450 (2008) it is the least-populated Berliner Ortsteil.

History

The locality was first mentioned in 1344. Until 1920 it was an autonomous municipality merged into Berlin with the Greater Berlin Act

Greater Berlin Act

The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:...

. A former civil parish of it, Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow. Until 2001 it was part of the former Weißensee borough.-History:...

, was divided from Malchow in 1985, becoming an Ortsteil of the former borough of Weißensee (still part of Pankow

Pankow

Pankow is the third borough of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow.- Overview :...

 district in 2001).

Geography

Malchow is located in the north-eastern suburb of Berlin, and counts in its territory a little lake named Malchower See. It borders with the localities of Wartenberg

Wartenberg (Berlin)

Wartenberg is a German locality within the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.-History:...

, Neu-Hohenschönhausen

Neu-Hohenschönhausen

Neu-Hohenschönhausen is a German locality in the borough of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former Hohenschönhausen borough.-History:...

 and Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow

Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow is a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow. Until 2001 it was part of the former Weißensee borough.-History:...

.

Transport

The locality, crossed by the Außenring railway line, is not served by any station. The nearest Berlin S-Bahn

Berlin S-Bahn

The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It consists of 15 lines and is integrated with the mostly underground U-Bahn to form the backbone of Berlin's rapid transport system...

 stop is Wartenberg, on S75

S75 (Berlin)

S75 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Wartenberg to Spandau over:*a section of the Outer ring, completed in the early 1940s as part of the Outer freight ring,...

 line, that ends there. It has been projected to continue the S75 track in 2015 on the Außenring from Wartenberg to Karow, but a station for Malchow, hypothesized, is still not officially scheduled on the plan .

The village's main road, Malchower Dorfstraße, is part of the B2, the German longest federal highway.

External links

Malchow page on www.berlin.de