Falkenhagener Feld

The Falkenhagener field is a district of Berlin in the district of Spandau, which until the late 20th century as urban housing estate. The development corresponds to the large settlement of highway north. Both settlements are separated by the railroad tracks Lehrterstraße train and Hamburg railway.

History

The Falkenhagener field was originally a occupied by allotments and agriculture area and joins the west of the old town of Spandau, the core of the district Spandau. Due to lack of housing in the former West Berlin in 1962 started to build a large housing estate here. The last buildings were not completed until the 1990s. Recently, the social problems of the Falkenhagener field, which is also favored as Zuzugsort of migrants of Turkish and Russian origin worsen. A neighborhood management has now been passed by the District in the ways to prevent the social tipping.

The Falkenseer road forms the main axis of the settlement. Once a small dirt road, later a normal width road, it was expanded into a six-lane main road in the early 1960s and today is one of the most important links to Falkirk, a western neighboring city of Berlin.

As a gateway to Falkenhagener field built by the architect Richard Ermisch in the expressionist style in the years 1923 to 1927 homes along the Zeppelinstraße can apply with its four towers at the intersection Falkenseer road. Of architectural interest is the Catholic St. Mark's Church, which was built in 1977 by Hermann Jünemann and Hans skull with aluminum clad ribbed conical dome. Furthermore, the Evangelical Church of Jeremiah and the refuge - church are worth seeing.

The southern boundary of the Falkenhagener field forms the Spektegrünzug, a recreational area for the residents of the settlement. To the north close to the water plant and the Spandau cemetery in the Kisseln. Is the Protestant Forest Hospital on the northwest corner of the Falkenhagener field. Originally built for the workers of the planned in the 1930's Great Hall as a warehouse, it was converted to a hospital operating since 1945. In 1947, the support of the Protestant hospital work, the Protestant Forest Hospital Spandau. The barracks are now being partially utilized for clinical purposes, the hospital itself is housed in a modern Klinikgroßbau.

In the environment of the Falkenhagener field there are several gyms and places that are also used by the school sports intensively. A school center is located in Spektefeld with primary school ( elementary school in Beerenwinkel ), two comprehensive schools ( Martin Buber High School, B. Traven - high school ) and vocational schools.

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Berlin- Falkenhagener field

Local supply

Shops and service providers as well as dining facilities are well represented traditionally along the Falkenseer road. Various food discounter located in the vicinity and a smaller shopping center was built in the area at the pebble pond / Falkenseer road with a supermarket, several retail stores, service businesses and a post office. For the needy every Friday food will be distributed by the Paul -Gerhardt- Church.

Traffic

As a connection for individual from the Berlin city center is primarily Falkenseer Chaussee available. Important feeder roads are also Zeppelinstraße and a new Nordsüdpassage at the local gravel pit, which emerged only in the 1990s.

A planned underground during the Falkenseer road, first by the U7, then later by the then U1 (now U2) is no longer up for debate. The Bötzow train Havelländische railway crosses the Falkenhagener field in north-south direction. The passenger was already set on this route in 1950. The Falkenhagener field is therefore in the public transport currently developed exclusively by bus ( inter alia, the line M37 ).

The Falkenhagener field is located to the planned closure of Tegel Airport in the no-fly zone.