The locality was mentioned for the first time in a document of 1345, named as Malterstorp. Until 1920 it was a municipality of the former Niederbarnim district, merged into Berlin with the "Greater Berlin Act".^[2]

Mahlsdorf is located in the eastern suburb of Berlin, at the borders with the Brandenburger district of Märkisch-Oderland. It is bounded by the municipality of Neuenhagen and Hoppegarten, with its hamlets Hönow, Waldesruh and Birkenstein. The Berliner bordering localities are Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Köpenick (in Treptow-Köpenick district). In the south of the quarter there are the lakes Elsensee and part of the Habermannsee, divided with Kaulsdorf.

Mahlsdorf is divided into 2 zones (Ortslagen):

• Mahlsdorf-Nord
• Mahlsdorf-Süd

The locality, crossed by the federal highways B1 and B5, is served by the S-Bahn line S5, at the rail station of Mahlsdorf. Birkenstein station, situated in the homonymous hamlet of the town of Hoppegarten, is close to the eastern suburb of the quarter.

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  The Gründerzeitmuseum
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  The hill Berliner Balkon
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  Railway station

• Gerhard Behrendt (1929–2006)
• Ralf Bursy (1956–2022)
• Alice Herz (1882–1965)
• Siegfried Lorenz (1945-2024)
• Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (1928–2002)
• Kathrin Schmidt (born 1958)
• Kurt Schwaen (1909–2007)
• Reiner Süß (1930–2015)
• Petra Zieger (born 1959)

• Kurt Pomplun: "Berlins alte Dorfkirchen" (page 59). Verlag Bruno Hessling, Berlin 1967