Thermometer settlement

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The thermometer settlement (colloquially: Thermosiedlung ) is a large settlement in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . It was built from 1968 to 1974 as a typical example of urban development in West Berlin in the 1970s. 4644 people lived in around 60 buildings, including several skyscrapers with up to 22  floors (as of 2018). The proportion of foreigners in the same year was six percentage points above the Berlin average (25.1 compared to 19.1%); the proportion of Germans with a migration background was almost eleven percentage points higher (24.4 compared to 13.5%).

The population structure and the social situation of the residents differ from the other residential areas in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district; the quarter is considered a social hotspot . The monitoring of social urban development of the year 2017 of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing identifies the thermometer settlement as an “area with special need of attention”.

Map of the thermometer settlement (highlighted in pink)

origin of the name

Thermometer settlement at night: Mercator primary school with Mercatorweg, high-rise buildings
Wall painting on Fahrenheitstrasse 27 in Berlin-Lichterfelde

Of the four streets in the thermometer settlement , three bear the names of the physicists Anders Celsius , Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur , from whom the physical units of temperature owe their names: Celsius , Fahrenheit and Réaumur streets . The Mercatorweg is named after the cartographer Gerhard Mercator .

Location and transport links

The settlement is located between Osdorfer Strasse and the Berlin – Halle railway line , on which the S25 and S26 S-Bahn lines as well as regional and long-distance trains run. Only the Berlin S-Bahn stops at the Lichterfelde-Süd and Osdorfer Straße stations . There are several bus routes .

The Berliner Ring and the feeder to the Berlin city motorway can both be reached in around 15 minutes.

Schools and care facilities

The thermometer settlement belongs to the school catchment area 0630 . In the thermometer settlement itself there is only the Mercator elementary school in Mercatorweg 8-10. In the immediate vicinity there is a day-care center on Réaumurstrasse and two on Scheelestrasse.

Living environment improvement

The state of Berlin and GSW Immobilien as the owner are attempting to improve the poor image of the estate with a number of measures: Among other things, police consultation hours have been set up for the residents. The facades of the buildings have been continuously renovated since the beginning of the 1990s and a lot of money has been invested in playgrounds and green areas, for example in the renaturation of the Stangenpfuhl and the Stangenpfuhlgraben.

Former military training area

To the south of the thermometer settlement, the Groth Group is planning to build semi-detached and terraced houses for families as well as up to eight-story houses on the site of the former US military training area Parks Range on an area of ​​39  hectares . There, up to 10,000 people will find accommodation in 2500 apartments.

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Panoramic view of the thermometer settlement from the northeast

Carl Schuhmann sports facility

Soccer field of the Carl-Schuhmann-Sportanlage, Berlin, with thermometer settlement in the background

In the immediate vicinity of the settlement there is a sports facility with a sports hall and sports field, which is named after the gymnast and wrestler Carl Schuhmann . The sports field is used by teams from the regional soccer division FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin .

Web links

Commons : Thermometersiedlung  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Building research projects - Building research - Fraunhofer IRB. In: irb.fraunhofer.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ingrid Hentschel - Prof. Axel Oestreich Architects BDA »Living environment improvement thermometer settlement. In: hentschel-oestreich.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ The thermometer settlement LOR page. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Very low social status: Thermometer settlement shows good values ​​for the district. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing: Monitoring Social Urban Development 2017 . Berlin 2017, p. 13 .
  6. ↑ Schools and daycare centers nearby. Senate Department for Urban Development, search form
  7. ^ School portrait of the Mercator elementary school.
  8. ↑ Landessportbund Berlin e. V .: Sports facilities details. November 7, 2016, accessed June 5, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 54"  E