Malchow-Weißensee

The Malchow suburban settlement lies in Berlin's Pankow district, west of Federal Highway 2 between Weißensee and the Brandenburg city limits. This area, which is mostly used for farming, is home to the settlement proper in the south, built between 1936 and 1939 on former sewage fields. The streets are named after figures and places from Norse mythology. North of the residential area stretches the Märchenland allotment garden colony, while the uninhabited stretch belongs to the cross-state Barnim Nature Park. Here flows the Laake, a drainage stream that empties into the North Sea by way of the Panke, Spree, Havel, and Elbe. Historically, the area was part of the rural municipality of Malchow, which became part of Greater Berlin in 1920. In 1985 the district was divided, with the settlement remaining in Weißensee and now counted as part of Pankow. Visitors will find a quiet, sparsely populated area with a rural character, shaped by the Neue Wiesen city-edge park and the nearby Blankenburger Pflasterweg with its golf course.