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Rummelsburg, Berlin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Erlöserkirche rises over Rummelsburg, a locality in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin, Germany, beside Stralau and the Dorfkirche Stralau.
About Rummelsburg
Where to stay in Rummelsburg
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Rummelsburg is a quiet locality in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin, its streets set between the Erlöserkirche and the old Dorfkirche Stralau. Only a handful of rooms exist here. Rooms gather in residential blocks near the Neuapostolische Kirche and the memorial to Harro Schulze-Boysen, an area of churches and quiet remembrance rather than a hotel quarter.
If you want a calm base in Rummelsburg near the Erlöserkirche and Stralau rather than the crowded middle of Berlin, this locality will suit you.
About Rummelsburg
What are the main landmarks in Rummelsburg?
The Erlöserkirche is the main landmark of Rummelsburg, a brick church standing among the residential streets of the Lichtenberg borough. The Dorfkirche Stralau and the Neuapostolische Kirche add older and newer places of worship nearby, while a memorial wall carries a relief portrait of Harro Schulze-Boysen and the Bürger im Widerstand marker recalls the resistance. Stone keeps the memory.
These marks set Rummelsburg apart within Berlin, Germany.
What is the history of Rummelsburg?
Rummelsburg carries a layered past in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin, its oldest thread running through the medieval Dorfkirche Stralau on the neighbouring ground of Stralau. Churches came first. Later the Erlöserkirche and the Neuapostolische Kirche joined the parish life, and the twentieth century left its own marks in the memorial to Harro Schulze-Boysen and the Bürger im Widerstand.
That harder history still stands in Rummelsburg.
Where is Rummelsburg?
Rummelsburg lies in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin, Germany, next to Stralau, its streets set between the Erlöserkirche and the Dorfkirche Stralau.
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Updated July 2026