Mitte
Berlin-Mitte or
Mitte is the most central
borough of
Berlin (
Mitte is German for centre). Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core. The area includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin (like the
Pergamon Museum,
Brandenburg Gate,
Charité and the
Reichstag, among others), most of which were in
East Berlin.
In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were
reorganized. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within the former
East Berlin, was combined with the boroughs of
Wedding and
Tiergarten (both of which formerly belonged to
West Berlin) to form the new Mitte borough. The new borough encompasses an area of 39.47 km² and has, as of 2003, about 320,700 inhabitants. Its current mayor is
Joachim Zeller (
CDU).
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