Siemensstadt

Siemens City is a district on the eastern edge of the district of Spandau in Berlin. It was created by the settlement of Siemens plants and to built modern housing estates on the Nonnenwiesen. The district is now dominated by large industrial and plant facilities and lush greenery of residential areas. However, the current resident companies no longer belong exclusively to Siemens AG.

Historical representation

In a display of the indicator for the Havel country from 1 August 1913, the situation of the nascent city Siemens is represented as follows:

" [ ... ] There, behind the River Spree, huge buildings rise in red brick; four - and five-storey building of several hundred meters front and long nacelles expand. A channel leads to the works and countless railroad tracks traverse the vast terrain. This is the Siemens city. From the size of the individual nuns Dammer departments following figures may give a picture: There are approximately employed: • In Wernerwerk 7000 persons, • In Kleinbauwerk 3500, • In Elektromotorenwerk 3000, • In Dynamowerk 2300, • In Blockwerk 800, • in the automotive factory 550, • in the iron foundry 300, • in the brass foundry 200, • in the Laboratory of electric railways 200, • in the cable plant garden box ( half an hour from Nonnendamm ) 3,000. These are certainly huge numbers that appeal, even for large - Berlin industrial relations. In the fall of Spandau Nonnendamm will get farther tremendous growth. The new central administration building will then be related, and again in 3000 people are the Nonnendamm more flow towards [ ... ] The Wernerwerk also undergoes continued enlargements, all located in Charlottenburg Siemens farms will be located there gradually on the Spandau Nonnendamm [ ... ] Extensive terrain are the Siemens company to buildings yet available [ ... ] "

Siemens city today

Today Siemens city lies between Hohenzollernkanal ( section of Berlin- Spandau navigation channel ) in the north, Charlottenburg-Nord in the east, the river Spree in the south and hazel Horst in the West. The plane passing through the ring settlement Jungfernheideweg represents the border to Charlottenburg-Nord dar. to Siemens City also includes the island formed by the old Berlin- Spandau navigation channel and Hohenzollernkanal garden field, on the other Siemens plants (up to 2002 ' cable plant garden field ") were built.

In June 2008, the city had 11,388 inhabitants Siemens, so is the relatively sparsely populated district in terms of population comparable to a small German town. Even today, a week on Mondays and Thursdays in a source route - in recent times greatly shrunken - weekly market.

As the support of the local sport, the Siemens SC city has made a name.

In Siemens City also Schachfreunde Siemens City are eV at home. This association has existed since 1913.

In 2010, the Siemens city park, which opened in the area of ​​underground station Paulsternstraße. It was built instead of the originally planned Siemens Arena and the shopping center and a multipurpose hall.

Also located in the district of the central receiving point for refugees Berlin.

  • Industrial architecture in Siemens City

Siemens Tower

Wernerwerk

Wernerwerk II

Wernerwerk XV

Siemens memorial

Siemens Research Laboratory

CHP plant Reuter

Metal factory (formerly cable plant ) Gartenfeld

Ring factory

Traffic

The district is connected via the U7 of Berlin's subway with the Berlin city center and the old town of Spandau. Until the kingdom workers strike in 1980 Siemens city was connected via the Siemens train at the S -Bahn network.

Residential Architecture

In addition to individual buildings from the period around 1900 that Siemens in city housing projects in several stages, including significant examples of modern architecture and the major settlements:

  • Siemens settlement on Rohrdamm ( from 1922 to about 1929, the architect Hans C. Hertlein )
  • Home settlement (1929-1930, architect Hans C. Hertlein, 900 apartments )
  • Living large settlement Siemens City ( called The Ring "Ring settlement " or " reform settlement " after the Union of Architects, 1929-1931, belonging mostly to Charlottenburg)
  • Settlement Rohrdamm - West (1953-1955, architect Hans C. Hertlein )

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO has included the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates in the list of World Heritage Sites on 7 July 2008. Six listed settlements, including the large settlement of Siemens City, represent a new type of social housing from the period of classical modernity and practiced in the aftermath considerable influence on the development of architecture and urban planning from.

  • Residential architecture in the city Siemens

Rape road

Rape road

Rohrdamm

Genoveva fountain in front Harriesstraße 8/10

Harriesstraße 8

Rieppelstraße

Corner Rieppel-/Dihlmannstraße

Christophoruskirche on Schuckertdamm

St. Joseph Church

Joan of Siemens Home

Settlement home, Natalissteig

Condominium Nonnendamm North

Condominium Nonnendamm -South

Maeckeritzstraße ( Großsiedlung Siemens City)

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