How did it happen that this district, so village-like and characterised by villas and countryside, at the gates of the city, became a birthplace of modern architecture, of modern living culture?
- Zehlendorf
- 1920s
- Bauhaus
| Duration | 2 Hours 30 Minutes |
|---|---|
| Participants | Tour findet ab 5 Teilnehmer*Innen statt |
| Important information | Endpunkt: U Onkel-Toms-Hütte |
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Walter Gropius. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hugo Häring. Bruno Taut. Otto Rudolf Salvisberg. Erich Mendelsohn. Richard Neutra. Hans Poelzig. What a name dropping! They all built here in the 1920s, when Berlin was the centre of modernism. Come with us on a tour that will show you why modern architecture was developed here of all places. The magnificent Onkel-Toms-Hütte forest estate by Taut alone... Or an underground railway with an attached shopping mall; a sensation at the time. But don't think that the rich, conservative Zehlendorf would have waited for the world's overthrowers. Pitched roof or flat roof? That was the beginning of the Zehlendorf roof war. And what is the situation today? We will see...
Please note that this tour is very walk-intensive.
