Location
Photo: Franziska Delenk
Old village centre of Wartenberg
13051 Berlin
The name Bernardus de Wardenberge is the first documentary reference to Wartenberg, which was laid out as an Angerdorf and indicates an early settlement. The layout, in the middle of which is the cemetery, is still recognisable today. Charles IV's land book lists the village as having 53 hectares in 1375. From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 19th century, Otto Carl von Voß farmed the village with his manor. In 1806 he abolished the hereditary subjectship on his estates.
The village church was blown up by members of the Wehrmacht in April 1945 so that it could not have served as a guide for the Red Army. In the GDR, the village was a model LPG. The village theatre won many prizes. No trace remains of the old estate and the LPG, only street names remind us of them. The Wartenberger Feldmark landscape park, which borders the settlement to the north, is an inviting place for walks and trips into nature.