Guided Tour through the Hufeisensiedlung
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The Hufeisensiedlung in Neukölln-Britz, planned in 1925-30 by Bruno Taut, city planning director Martin Wagner and garden architect Leberecht Migge, is the largest and best-known of Berlin's six World Heritage estates.
Comprising almost 2,000 residential units, the complex is internationally regarded as a milestone in social housing construction and is grouped around a 350-metre-long iconic building structure shaped like an horseshoe. As early as 1925, the construction site served as one of the central "showplaces" of the Weimar Republic. It was here that the GEHAG housing association demonstrated an effective political response to the housing shortage that was rampant throughout Europe. At the same time, the ensemble pushed the limits of social housing, modernist town planning and serial design.
During the guided tour, Taut's mastery of creating a very varied streetscape and a high quality of housing despite the serial construction method becomes readable. In 1998 the whole strikingly colorful and well preserved ensemble became privatized. Today the listed row houses are owned by more than 600 individual private owners who are jointly responsible to preserve a World Heritage.
This difficult situation gave birth to various preservation and communication projects, in which the guide was deeply involved.
As part of the program of the activities around the event "Tag des Offenen Denkmals" this tour is free of charge, yet one of the very few ones in English.
Start: Infostation Hufeisensiedlung, Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359 Berlin
Comprising almost 2,000 residential units, the complex is internationally regarded as a milestone in social housing construction and is grouped around a 350-metre-long iconic building structure shaped like an horseshoe. As early as 1925, the construction site served as one of the central "showplaces" of the Weimar Republic. It was here that the GEHAG housing association demonstrated an effective political response to the housing shortage that was rampant throughout Europe. At the same time, the ensemble pushed the limits of social housing, modernist town planning and serial design.
During the guided tour, Taut's mastery of creating a very varied streetscape and a high quality of housing despite the serial construction method becomes readable. In 1998 the whole strikingly colorful and well preserved ensemble became privatized. Today the listed row houses are owned by more than 600 individual private owners who are jointly responsible to preserve a World Heritage.
This difficult situation gave birth to various preservation and communication projects, in which the guide was deeply involved.
As part of the program of the activities around the event "Tag des Offenen Denkmals" this tour is free of charge, yet one of the very few ones in English.
Start: Infostation Hufeisensiedlung, Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359 Berlin
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Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359, Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
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