Sand, nothing but Sand. Entering the construction site right next to the S-Bahn station Innsbrucker Platz, towards the desert for hundreds of meters along the railway line and the city motorway in the direction of the West to handjery Strasse. Here, on the site of the former goods station in Wilmersdorf, which belongs to despite the Name of the district Tempelhof-schöneberg, one of the largest housing projects in the City. 1500 homes will be created here on the “peace Auer amount” in the next few years.

The first building permits for the quarter are issued. The peace Auer SPD-members of Parliament and health, Senator Dilek Kolat, calls it a “Highlight project”, which is here realized in the to your specifications on the “densely populated” district of Berlin. Kolat has invited to the site visit. The 80 peace Auer, who followed the invitation, are more likely to be skeptical due to the size of the project, the associated increase in traffic, the infrastructure. In 2023, the district will be ready.

Sand, nothing but Sand. Currently, the Site is prepared for construction work.Photo: Sigrid Florian ganzert

To the North is a closed, hundreds of meters long, six-storey Building with three wings, will emerge; in addition, a four metre high noise barrier will be set. This construction was required to provide noise protection for the entire district, says project Manager Tobias Enders of the OFB project development, which is in a Joint Venture with the BÖAG for the construction of approximately 1200 freely-financed apartments in charge. In particular, smaller apartments are planned there.

local residents have compared the planning mockingly with Prora, that the Nazis built giant concrete bars on the island of Rügen, which was designed by the state-controlled leisure organization “KdF” (strength through joy) as a holiday plant. The comparison of Enders. The architecture is loosened up, there are balconies and terraces to the South, so that there is no monotonous uniformity will arise. In the transverse to the longitudinal building planned houses, Two – to Four-room flats offered. Between the buildings is to be built on an area of around 10,000 square meters of Greenery with quiet gardens and playgrounds. A nursery with 85 places is planned.

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order it Free of charge In the district with extensive green areas are planned.Photo: Promo

At the Western end of the site, the building will be created to provide subsidized housing. 245 apartments are in the planning. “The square meter will cost 6.50 euros net cold,” says Jan Siggelkow from the real estate company Ten Brinke. These apartments will be taken over by the municipal housing company Howoge.

In the area will also start the construction work. The construction traffic will be from the main road and not about the handjery Strasse. The Area should be largely car-free. The majority of the total of 450 Parking spaces in the garages will be accessible via the main road, 75 pitches about the handjery Strasse. For 2000 bikes in the garage space.

displeasure over the number of apartments

The tour of the construction Site, the visitors to Express dissatisfaction with the number of the resulting apartments. During the year-long citizen participation is much much less in the conversation. “In the past presented plans, we were still at 900 apartments,” scolds a citizen. “The participation of the citizens was a Farce.”

Enders tried to dispel these concerns. You do not build for more people, but have increased the proportion of small apartments. “In Berlin, 80 per cent of the households are One – to Two-person households,” says Enders. The peace Auer not to worry, also, that the number of Parking spaces are Far from adequate and the new residents will then claim in the future, the already scarce Parking in the district.

A restriction for the residents, there will be determined; the Edeka supermarket at the handjery Strasse, you have to do without for some time. It will be demolished, but then move in later in the ground floor of the planned six-storey new building.

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goods station in Wilmersdorf construction project “peace Auer height” finally goes ahead

Gerd W. Seidemann

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