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Neu-Jerusalem (Berlin)
The Siedlung Neu-Jerusalem (''New Jerusalem settlement'') is a residential complex along Bundesstraße 5, federal route No. 5, here named Heerstraße, in the locality of Staaken, part of Berlin's Borough of Spandau. The ''Deutsche Gartenstadt Gesellschaft'' commissioned :de:Erwin Anton Gutkind, Erwin Gutkind , who designed between 1923 and 1924 following the style of New Objectivity (architecture), New Objectivity the plans for the complex, which was completed until 1925. Overview The complex, close to the border between the States of Germany, federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, was erected for employees of the zeppelin airfield in Staaken, where Deutsche Luft Hansa ran an ''aviation academy'' (german: link=no, Fliegerakademie) for flight training and premises for maintenance purposes. The complex consists of 21 Semi-detached, semi-detached houses of equal design and one single house. The cubic buildings with their one-storied annexes earn the complex, aligned along Heerstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staaken Neu--Jerusalem
Staaken () is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau. Geography Staaken borders on the localities of Spandau proper, Falkenhagener Feld and Wilhelmstadt. In the west it shares border with the Brandenburg municipalities of Falkensee and Dallgow-Döberitz with the village of Seeburg, part of Havelland district. Buildings range from small detached houses and a garden city around the historic village centre in the west to larger 1960s and 1970s housing estates in the east. Subdivisions The locality of Staaken includes six sites (german: Ortslagen) or neighbourhoods (''Siedlungen''): *Dorf Staaken ("Staaken Village"), the historic settlement around the Alt-Staaken village church *Albrechtshof, a family home colony in the northwest, around Berlin Albrechtshof station *Gartenstadt Staaken (Staaken Garden City), built from 1914 to 1917 according to plans designed by Paul Schmitthenner, today protected as a historic monument *Neu-Jerusalem, an early exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
