Editing Pankow (section)

==Overview==
The borough, named after the [[Panke]] river, covers the northeast of the city region, including the inner city locality of Prenzlauer Berg. It borders [[Mitte]] and [[Reinickendorf]] in the west, [[Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg]] in the south, and [[Lichtenberg, Berlin|Lichtenberg]] in the east. Pankow is Berlin's largest borough by population and the second largest by area (after [[Treptow-Köpenick]]).

Between 1945 and 1960, [[Schönhausen Palace]] and the nearby [[Majakowskiring]] street in the [[Niederschönhausen]] locality of Pankow was the home to many members of the [[East Germany|East German]] government. Western writers therefore often referred to ''Pankow'' as a [[Metonymy|metonym]] for the East German regime—as reflected by [[Udo Lindenberg]]'s song ''[[Sonderzug nach Pankow]]''. The fact that "-ow" is rare as an ending for place names in West Germany and – especially in the wrong but common pronunciation /'pankof/ – sounds [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] or more specifically "Russian" to German ears may have played a role in this use as it carried a connotation of the East German government being a foreign, more specifically Russian/Soviet, [[puppet regime]] — a claim right leaning newspapers and politicians often made much more openly than through this mere insinuation and connotation.

The [[Rykestrasse Synagogue]], Germany's largest [[synagogue]], is located in the Prenzlauer Berg locality. The [[Weißensee Cemetery]] is one of the largest [[Jewish cemetery|Jewish cemeteries]] in Europe. In northern Prenzlauer Berg, the ''Wohnstadt'' ("residential town") ''[[Carl Legien]]'' is part of the Berlin [[Modernist Housing Estates]] UNESCO World Heritage Site. The [[Weißer See (Berlin)|Weißer See]] is the borough's largest natural body of water.