The housing estates from the 1920s represent modern mass housing construction, the building of social housing and sobriety and functionality. Architects such as Bruno Taut have proved that these housing estates can also stand for light, fresh air, intense colours and wide open spaces. They were once built in order to illustrate the principles of the democratic constitution which guaranteed every German citizen a home fit for human habitation.
Nowadays the Berlin housing estates have become an international model and a key witness to the to live in sad, crowded tenement buildings. The newly created housing estates are friendly, full of light and have a rural charm within the Berlin conglomerate. Bedded into parks and gardens, they are still increasingly popular today.
Hufeisensiedlung Britz, Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Weiße Stadt, Großsiedlung Siemensstadt, Wohnstadt Carl Legien and Siedlung Schillerpark are firmly anchored in the consciousness of local residents as an integral part of Berlin’s history, culture and architecture.
