Where Berlin's Allotment Colonies Actually Are
Berlin's official register counts 1,038 allotment colonies with 70,390 plots, but the supply is wildly uneven: Pankow holds over ten thousand plots and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 228. This map plots every real colony, sized by plot count, so you can see your own district's true supply and the association that runs its waiting list.
Colony locations, sizes, plot counts and managing associations come from the Berlin Senate's open Kleingartenbestand dataset, February 2025 revision, published under Datenlizenz Deutschland Zero 2.0. District boundaries from Berlin open data. Waiting lists are kept by the district associations; register with them, not with this map.
Every dot is a real colony from the Senate register, sized by how many plots it holds; gold dots are railway-land colonies run by the Bahn-Landwirtschaft. Tap a district button or the map itself and the panel shows that district's colonies, plot count, share of the citywide supply, the associations that keep its waiting lists, and its largest colonies. Tap a single dot for that colony's name, street, size and manager. The pattern is the point: the plots live along the S-Bahn belt and the eastern edge, which is why a realistic application usually names more than one district.
Why the dots cluster where they do
The colonies grew where the city had leftover land when the movement took off a century ago: along railway embankments, on the edge belt, and in the old field margins of the east. That history is today's supply map. Treptow-Köpenick, Pankow and Neukölln together hold over 28,000 plots, while the dense inner districts kept almost none, which is why an inner-city waiting list moves so much slower than one in the S-Bahn belt.
What the gold dots mean
One hundred twelve colonies stand on railway land and are managed by the Bahn-Landwirtschaft, a separate organisation with its own waiting lists. They are real Kleingärten under the same federal law, but they sit outside the 2026 Berlin law that permanently protects colonies on state-owned land, so they carry a different long-term risk profile.
What the map cannot tell you
How long your wait will be. Waiting lists belong to the district associations, move strictly in registration order, and their published estimates run from about three years in the deep-supply east to far longer in the centre. The map tells you where the plots are and who to register with; the years are something you buy with a registration fee and patience.