Schlachtensee Student Village

The students Schlachtensee is located in the southwest of Berlin, in the district Nikolasee the district of Steglitz- Zehlendorf. It was built 1959-1964 as part of the Free University of Berlin. The project was funded by a donation from the Government of the United States.

Architecture and History

The Berlin architects Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel and Peter Pfankuch arranged the student sleeps around a campus into a composition that is unique in Berlin. The 27 houses are grouped around a central square, the " village ". You are terraced located in a green area, all designed Hermann Mattern. The facility is very invested in community. While the rooms are rather small, invite bright halls and stairwells and the kitchens of residential buildings to an encounter. With extensions of 1977, the village can accommodate more than 1000 students.

Although it is a protected monument since 1990, the student village to be demolished in 2001 to over five buildings. With the decision taken in March 2003 decision of the Berlin Senate, the student village to the cooperative student Berlin-Schlachtensee eG for sale, the monument will be spared from demolition until further notice. On 16 June 2004, the Berlin House of Representatives agreed to sell after long negotiations.

In 2006 began the renovation of vacant after Entmietung 2002 building. The renovation of houses 4 and 8, in 2009, to be completed much later than planned, on 19 March 2009, the buildings were formally the Free University of Berlin passed. Here, the rooms have been enlarged and created student apartments, the insulation of the two houses was brought to a current status. Currently all the houses are inhabited except for the buildings 20 and 21, the house is between 19 rented to artists associations since 2007.

In June 2010, the cooperative sold it to a Swiss pension fund and leased it back for a period of 99 years from this. However, the purchase agreement must still be approved by the House of Representatives.

The student village in the novel

The students Schlachtensee is one of the venues of the novel The beautiful phoenix bird by Jochen Schimmang, which deals among other things with the time of the student movement. One of the chapters of the novel is titled The caves of Schlachtensee.