Siemensstadt housing estate

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The in popularly called "Battleship" Condominium by Hans Scharoun

The Siemensstadt housing estate (also: Siemensstadt ring settlement ) is a residential complex in what is now the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Nord . It was from 1929 to 1931 as an eastern extension of the Spandau district belonging Siemensstadt built. It offered the workers of the neighboring Siemens factories a place to live.

The city planning officer Martin Wagner was in charge of overall management , while Hans Scharoun was responsible for the urban planning concept . Well-known architects from the Weimar Republic such as Walter Gropius , Otto Bartning , Hugo Häring , Fred Forbát and Paul Rudolf Henning were involved in the planning of the blocks built in the New Building style . Leberecht Migge designed the open spaces . Since Scharoun, Gropius, Häring and Bartning belonged to the architectural community Der Ring , the settlement was nicknamed the Ringsiedlung .

The Siemensstadt housing estate was added to the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage in July 2008 as one of six modernist housing developments in Berlin .

description

The graphic shows the exact location of the individual structures and names the respective architects.
Site plan of the UNESCO World Heritage Siemensstadt housing estate

The residential complex was built in the district of Charlottenburg-Nord around Goebelplatz . The part of the residential complex to the west of the Jungfernheideweg belongs to the Spandau district .

Scharoun realized here - following the progressive ideas of housing construction of the 1920s - the concept of a relaxed residential town surrounded by open spaces and green strips, which was groundbreaking for housing construction in the period after the First World War .

The three- to four-storey rows of living quarters, which are arranged in parallel in a north-south direction, follow a strict urban structure within which the architects involved created a multifaceted image of the settlement with different forms. A distinctive feature of the settlement is a component designed by Scharoun that is reminiscent of ship architecture and is known as the "armored cruiser".

The streets and squares of the settlement were named after technicians, inventors and physicists, in whose achievements one saw the roots of the success of Siemens AG .

special offers

Information pillars are distributed throughout the entire estate, providing condensed initial information on the respective architect and his buildings.

At the southern end of the Fred Forbát component, at Goebelstraße 2, there is the “Siemensstadt Infostation” in the store building that was renovated in 2011 to meet the requirements of listed buildings. More detailed information on all Berlin Modernist housing estates is available here. The owner is Deutsche Wohnen , the current tenant is TICKET B - Architektur Erlebnis , an architecture office that specializes in building culture and offers tours of architecture and urban planning through the UNESCO World Heritage site.

literature

  • Jörg Haspel and Annemarie Jaeggi (Hrsg.): Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne. DKV edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-02091-7 .
  • Thomas M. Krüger: World Heritage Ring Settlement Siemensstadt. Series Die neue Architekturführer , No. 170. Stadtwandel Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86711-181-2 .

Web links

Commons : Großsiedlung Siemensstadt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence


Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 18 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 48 ″  E