 The settlement area is located on the Barnim Plateau stretching in the northeast of the Berlin city centre up to the Oder–Havel Canal and the Oderbruch delta.Berlin's northernmost point is at the "Rieselfelder" meadows, a former sewage farm transformed in a rural area, part of the Buch Forest within the Barnim Nature Park ).The landscape is marked by hill chains, sandurs and small lakes such as the Bogensee.