Köpenick: Altstadt Köpenick

Altstadt Köpenick is the historic center of Köpenick, located between the Spree and Dahme rivers, with preserved old buildings and a small-town atmosphere. Altstadt Köpenick is shaped above all by the surviving older street pattern, plot structure and building lines that remain legible beneath later development. In Altstadt Köpenick, the daily character emerges through the overlap of historic fabric with present-day housing, shops and local institutions. Altstadt Köpenick lies in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick, about 15 km southeast of central Berlin. Altstadt Köpenick merges gradually into Kietzer Feld/Nachtheide and Friedrichshagener Straße; building scale, street activity and open space change before any clear boundary is felt. The immediate streets and open spaces give Altstadt Köpenick a recognisable local identity of its own. Within Köpenick, Altstadt Köpenick stands out through the continuity of the original settlement within modern Berlin.