Siemensstadt

Siemensstadt
Siemensstadt
Quarter of Berlin
	Rapsstrasse
	Location of Siemensstadt in Spandau district and Berlin
	Siemensstadt Siemensstadt
	Coordinates: 52°32′26″N 13°15′47″E / 52.54056°N 13.26306°E
Country	Germany
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Borough	Spandau
Founded	1913
Area
• Total	5.66 km2 (2.19 sq mi)
Elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Population (2020-12-31)
• Total	12,740
• Density	2,300/km2 (5,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	(nr. 0503) 13629
Vehicle registration	B

Siemensstadt (German: [ˈziːmənsˌʃtat] ^ⓘ) is a locality (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the district (Bezirk) of Spandau.

History edit

The locality emerged when the company Siemens & Halske (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-Schuckertwerke (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.

During World War II, Siemensstadt was the location of a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for men and women, mostly Hungarian Jews, but also Bulgarians, French, Italians, Yugoslavs, Dutch, Poles, Czechoslovaks, Russians and Ukrainians.^[2]

Geography edit

Siemensstadt is situated on the eastern side of the Spandau district. It borders Spandau (locality), Haselhorst, Tegel (in Reinickendorf), Charlottenburg-Nord and Westend (both in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf). The Großsiedlung Siemensstadt is situated close to Siemensstadt but in Charlottenburg-Nord.

Transport edit

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

Images edit

Siemens-Tower
Wernerwerk (Werner's Factory)
Wernerwerk II
Wernerwerk XV
Rapsstrasse, northern part
Rapsstrasse
Christophorus Church
Rohrdamm
Genoveva-Fountain
Rieppelstrasse
Rieppel- Ecke Dihlmannstrasse
Maeckeritzstrasse

References edit

^ "Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner im Land Berlin am 31. Dezember 2020" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg. February 2021.
^ Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1284. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.

External links edit

Media related to Siemensstadt at Wikimedia Commons

(in German) Siemensstadt page on www.berlin.de

[1] "Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner im Land Berlin am 31. Dezember 2020" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg. February 2021.

[2] Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1284. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.

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