Neu-Jerusalem

The New Jerusalem is a settlement since 1992 listed residential installation of the new style on the highway in the Berlin district Staaken ( Spandau district ), near the outskirts of Berlin. The settlement was 1923/1924 planned by the architect Erwin Anton Gutkind and completed in 1925; for garden design of landscape architect Leberecht Migge was responsible. The project was a housing development for members of the Academy of airmen airship port Staaken with a total area of ​​37 611 m².

The complex consists of 21 identical semi-detached houses ( eleven north and ten south of the highway located ) and a single house. The road accompanying ranking of the individual cubic houses with adjoining single-storey ancillary buildings conveys a closed settlement picture and encloses the parceled garden areas with a size of about 700 square meters per semi-detached house. In its cube-shaped design and differentiated staggering of building the houses are typical examples of the architectural avant-garde of the early 1920s. A horizontal layout of the facades with plaster on the ground floor and dark brickwork at the top of reinforced originally the design concept. First, each apartment was provided for each semi-detached house, but there is currently a duplex of four apartments.

In contrast to the conventional brick semi-detached houses, the family house was built in experimental prefabricated construction.

In 2012, the entire property of the Prince of Saxe Immobilien GmbH was, by the owner of Northern Cross Estate GmbH (NCE ), which has previously acquired in 2008 this property by the Property Fund Berlin, contrary to the requirements of the Supreme conservation authority Berlin, the entire sold condominium to various new owners.