Gropiusstadt
Sign in to saveGropiusstadt () is a locality () within the Berlin borough () of Neukölln. It was named after the architect who designed the complex, Walter Gropius.
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- German location.name
- Gropiusstadt
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- Gropiusstadt closeup.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Overview of the Gropiusstadt Complex
- German location.type
- Quarter
- German location.City
- Berlin
- German location.state
- Berlin
- German location.borough
- Neukölln
- German location.elevation
- 52
- German location.area
- 2.66
- German location.postal_code
- 12351, 12353
- German location.licence
- B
- German location.year
- 1960
- German location.plantext
- Location of Gropiusstadt in Neukölln district and Berlin
- German location.image_plan
- Berlin Neukoelln Gropiusstadt.png
- German location.website
- Official website
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Gropiusstadt () is a locality () within the Berlin borough () of Neukölln. It was named after the architect who designed the complex, Walter Gropius.
==History== Construction of the quarter, initially named Britz-Buckow-Rudow and designed in a modernist style by Walter Gropius, ended in 1960. In Berlin, Gropius also projected the Sommerfeld House, the Interbau and the Großsiedlung Siemensstadt quarter. As part of West Berlin, its borders with Brandenburg (part of East Germany) were crossed by the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989. As of 2001 it was still an autonomous .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gropiusstadt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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