Karlshorst
Sign in to saveKarlshorst (, ; ; literally meaning ''Karl's nest) is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It is home to a harness racing track, the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW''), the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.
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- German location.name
- Karlshorst
- German location.image_photo
- Treskowallee gesamt 1.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Treskowallee
- German location.type
- Quarter
- German location.City
- Berlin
- German location.state
- Berlin
- German location.borough
- Lichtenberg, Berlin
- German location.elevation
- 37-42
- German location.area
- 6.6
- German location.postal_code
- 10318
- German location.licence
- B
- German location.year
- 1895
- German location.plantext
- Location of Karlshorst in Lichtenberg district and Berlin
- German location.image_plan
- Berlin Lichtenberg Karlshorst.png
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- Born in Karlshorst
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Karlshorst (, ; ; literally meaning ''Karl's nest) is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It is home to a harness racing track, the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW), the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.
==History== thumb|left|The German-Russian Museum. Established in 1895 as the Carlshorst'' mansion's colony, Karlshorst from 1901 had access to the railway line from Berlin to Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland) and developed to a quite affluent residential area, sometimes referred to as "Dahlem of the East". The locality encompasses the Waldsiedlung, a garden city laid out between 1919 and 1921 according to plans by Peter Behrens.