Siemensstadt () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') of

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

in the

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

(''Bezirk'') of

Spandau Spandau () is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs () of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smallest borough by population, but the fourth largest by la ...

History

The locality emerged when the company

Siemens & Halske Siemens & Halske AG (or Siemens-Halske) was a German electrical engineering company that later became part of Siemens. It was founded on 12 October 1847 as ''Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske'' by Werner von Siemens and Johann Geo ...

(S & H), one of the predecessors of today's Siemens, bought land in the area, in order to expand production of S & H and their subsidiary

Siemens-Schuckert Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966. Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & Ha ...

werke (SSW) as well. On the initiative of Georg Wilhelm von Siemens S & H started to build new factories in 1899. Soon also residential buildings were erected. The locality was incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920 by the Greater Berlin Act.

Geography

Siemensstadt is situated in the eastern side of Spandau district. It borders with

(locality), Haselhorst,

Tegel Tegel () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf on the shore of Lake Tegel. The Tegel locality, the second largest in area (after Köpenick) of the 96 Berlin districts, also includes the neighbourhood of ''Saatwinke ...

(in Reinickendorf), Charlottenburg-Nord and

Westend Westend may refer to: * Westend (Trevilians, Virginia), an historic house in Virginia listed on the NRHP * Westend (Berlin), a locality of Berlin in Germany * Westend (Frankfurt am Main), a borough of Frankfurt am Main in Germany * Westend, Espoo, ...

(both in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf). The Großsiedlung Siemensstadt is situated close to Siemensstadt but in Charlottenburg-Nord.

Transport

Siemensstadt is served by the Berliner U-Bahn line U7 at the stations of Paulsternstrasse, Rohrdamm and Siemensdamm.

Images

Siemensturm 04.jpg, Siemens-Tower Wernerwerk-Hochhaus, Siemensdamm 02.jpg, Wernerwerk (Werner's Factory) SiemensstadtFürstenbrunnerWeg.jpg, Wernerwerk II Wohlrabedamm - Wernerwerk XV (09085805) Berlin-Siemensstadt 002.jpg, Wernerwerk XV Berlin Rapsstr Nord.jpg, Rapsstrasse, northern part Berlin Rapsstr Plastiken.jpg, Rapsstrasse File:Christophorus-Kirche Siemensstadt.jpg, Christophorus Church Berlin Rohrdamm 37.jpg, Rohrdamm Berlin Harriesstr Genoveva.jpg, Genoveva-Fountain Berlin Dieppelstr 18.jpg, Rieppelstrasse Berlin Dieppelstr Dihlmannstr.jpg, Rieppel- Ecke Dihlmannstrasse Berlin Maeckeritzstr.jpg, Maeckeritzstrasse

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