Moabit is an inner city locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2022, about 84,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial and working-class neighbourhood is fully surrounded by three watercourses, which define its present-day border. Between 1945 and 1990, Moabit was part of the British sector of West Berlin and directly bordered East Berlin.
Stadtteilgarden in Moabit
The AEG turbine factory in 1900 – an example of Moabit's industrial past
Berlin's largest inland port marks Moabit's northern border with Wedding.
Moabit's Markthalle X, one of the few remaining Berlin market halls, erected 1891
Boroughs and neighborhoods of Berlin
Berlin is both a city and one of Germany's federated states. Since the 2001 administrative reform, it has been made up of twelve districts, each with its own administrative body. However, unlike the municipalities and counties of other German states, the Berlin districts are not territorial corporations of public law with autonomous competencies and property, but simple administrative agencies of Berlin's state and city government, the City of Berlin forming a single municipality since the Greater Berlin Act of 1920. Thus they cannot be equated to US or UK boroughs in the traditional meaning of the term.
The 12 Berlin Bezirke (districts) - following the 2001 district reform