Tegel
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| Quarter of Berlin | |
Gorkistrasse in the old town
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Location of Tegel in Reinickendorf district and Berlin
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| Coordinates: 52°35′00″N 13°17′00″E / 52.58333°N 13.28333°ECoordinates: 52°35′00″N 13°17′00″E / 52.58333°N 13.28333°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Berlin |
| City | Berlin |
| Borough | Reinickendorf |
| Founded | 1558 |
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| • Total | 33.7 km2 (13.0 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population (2008-06-30) | |
| • Total | 33,417 |
| • Density | 990/km2 (2,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | (nr. 1202) 13405, 13503, 13505, 13507, 13509 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
Tegel is a locality (Ortsteil) in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf on the shore of Lake Tegel. The Tegel locality, the second largest in area (after Köpenick) of the 96 Berlin districts, also includes the neighbourhood of Saatwinkel.
The Tegel Palace (or Humboldt Palace), originally a Renaissance manor house from 1558 and a hunting lodge of Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, was bequested to the Humboldt family in 1797. Alexander von Humboldt and Wilhelm von Humboldt lived here for several years. In 1824 Wilhelm had the palace rebuilt in a Neoclassical style by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In the park is a tomb, where Alexander, Wilhelm and other members of the Humboldt family are buried. From 1927 until 1931 Tegel Palace was the site of a sanatorium, founded by the psychoanalyst Ernst Simmel (1882-1947).
From 1898 on Tegel was the seat of the Borsig-Werke steam locomotive manufacturing company until it moved to Hennigsdorf in Brandenburg in 1931.
Between 1930 and 1934 an artillery firing range in the district was used by the Verein für Raumschiffahrt for experiments with liquid-fueled rockets. The principal names involved were its leader Rudolf Nebel and other staff members Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun.
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