Forum Köpenick

Forum Köpenick opened in 1998 at Bahnhofstraße in Berlin’s Köpenick district, with approximately 32,000 sqm of gross leasable area as the principal enclosed retail destination for the southeastern Berlin borough of Treptow-Köpenick, the city’s largest borough by area and home to the historically significant Köpenick castle and old town. The centre is owned by Union Investment Real Estate and managed by ECE Projektmanagement.

Köpenick is Berlin’s southeastern borough, bordered by the Müggelsee lake — Berlin’s largest lake — the Spree and Dahme rivers, and the forests of the Köpenicker Stadtforst. The district’s character combines the historic old town (Altstadt Köpenick) and castle with the post-war prefabricated housing blocks of the Allende-Viertel and the residential communities of Schöneweide, Oberschöneweide, and Rahnsdorf. Forum Köpenick provides H&M and mainstream fashion and service retail for the southeastern Berlin residential catchment. The S3 S-Bahn at Köpenick station provides direct access to Ostbahnhof and Hauptbahnhof. The Treptow-Köpenick borough covers 168 square kilometres — larger than any other Berlin borough — creating an extensive but lower-density residential catchment that makes local retail centres essential for communities distant from the city-centre commercial circuit.

Treptow-Köpenick’s population of approximately 280,000, distributed across 168 square kilometres of residential and forest landscape, provides the catchment. The S3 S-Bahn provides transit access to central Berlin. The A10 motorway ring provides access from the surrounding Brandenburg communities east of Berlin.

Union Investment and ECE manage Forum Köpenick as the retail anchor for Berlin’s most geographically extensive borough. The combination of Köpenick’s historic identity, the Müggelsee leisure destination, and the residential density of the Köpenick-Schöneweide corridor creates a multi-purpose visit occasion that combines shopping with cultural, leisure, and transit purposes in southeastern Berlin’s commercial hub.