Berlin Modernist Settlements

Location of the Berlin Modernism settlements in Berlin

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is a collective term for six in July 2008 by the UNESCO in the World Heritage List received housing estates in various districts and the former suburbs of Berlin . These were designed and built between 1913 and 1934 by architects of classical modernism in the New Building style. The settlements in today's districts of Bohnsdorf , Britz , Charlottenburg-Nord , Prenzlauer Berg , Reinickendorf and Wedding set the tone for social housing in the period after the First World War, which was characterized by housing shortages . With their clear and new forms as well as the social demands, the settlements became decisive for the architecture and urban planning of the 20th century.

Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner were primarily responsible for planning the settlements, but other architects such as Hans Scharoun and Walter Gropius also took part in the projects. The oldest of the Berlin Modernist settlements is the Falkenberg garden city designed by Taut. The White City , built in the New Objectivity style, and the Siemensstadt housing estate were not completed until the early 1930s .

List of housing developments

settlement	District	construction time	draft	Architects
Falkenberg Garden City (Tuschkastensiedlung)	Bohnsdorf ( Treptow-Köpenick )	1913-1916	Bruno Taut	Bruno Taut Heinrich Tessenow
Schillerpark settlement	Wedding ( middle )	1924-1930	Bruno Taut	Bruno Taut Max Taut (reconstruction) Hans Hoffmann (expansion)
Großsiedlung Britz (Horseshoe Estate)	Britz ( Neukölln )	1925-1930	Bruno Taut	Bruno Taut Martin Wagner
Carl Legien's residential town	Prenzlauer Berg ( Pankow )	1928-1930	Bruno Taut	Bruno Taut Franz Hillinger
White city	Reinickendorf ( Reinickendorf )	1929-1931	Otto Rudolf Salvisberg Martin Wagner (overall management)	Otto Rudolf Salvisberg Bruno Ahrends Wilhelm Büning
Siemensstadt housing estate (ring settlement)	Charlottenburg-Nord ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf )	1929-1934	Hans Scharoun Martin Wagner (overall management)	Hans Scharoun Walter Gropius Otto Bartning Fred Forbat Hugo Häring Paul Rudolf Henning

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Landesdenkmalamt Berlin on behalf of the Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin (ed.), Winfried Brenne (project leader): Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne. Nomination for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List . Braun Verlagshaus, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-938780-20-7 .

Commons : Settlements of Berlin Modernism - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment: Berlin settlements from the 1920s on the UNESCO World Heritage List ( Memento from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Landesdenkmalamt Berlin: Settlements of Berlin Modernism. In: berlin.de. July 24, 2007, accessed March 5, 2019 .
Jens Sethmann: The new building of the 20s. Timeless modernity. In: Berlin tenants' association . April 28, 2006, accessed November 24, 2019 .
Klaus-Peter Kloß: Settlements from the 1920s. (PDF) Haude & Spener Vlg. (Deutsche Wohnen AG), 1982, archived from the original on May 6, 2017 ; accessed on November 24, 2019 .