Weißensee: Komponistenviertel Weißensee

The composers’ quarter in Weißensee combines historic housing with a calm residential setting and proximity to lakes and parks. Komponistenviertel Weißensee is shaped above all by the surviving older street pattern, plot structure and building lines that remain legible beneath later development. In Komponistenviertel Weißensee, the daily character emerges through the overlap of historic fabric with present-day housing, shops and local institutions. Komponistenviertel Weißensee lies in the borough of Pankow, about 4.8 km northeast of central Berlin. The transitions from Komponistenviertel Weißensee toward Michelangelostraße and Orankesee are gradual, marked by changes in building form, traffic and greenery. The immediate streets and open spaces give Komponistenviertel Weißensee a recognisable local identity of its own. Within Weißensee, Komponistenviertel Weißensee stands out through the continuity of the original settlement within modern Berlin.