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Falkenberg Garden City

  • Gartenstadt Falkenberg

    Residential buildings with colorful facades in the Gartenstadt Falkenberg (Falkenberg Garden City).

  • Gartenstadt Falkenberg

    Apartment building with garden in the Falkenberg Garden City.

  • Gartenstadt Falkenberg

    Colorful entrance in the garden city of Falkenberg.

The Gartenstadt Falkenberg (Falkenberg Garden City) is located in the south of Berlin on the border with Brandenburg and is the oldest of the six World Heritage settlements in Berlin. Berliners know it under the name Tuschkastensiedlung.

In 1912, the architect Bruno Taut was commissioned to plan a housing estate in the south-east of Berlin. The first freelance landscape architect, Ludwig Lesser, was responsible for designing the gardens. Taut's plans envisaged that the residents of the houses would provide themselves with food in their gardens. Due to a lack of funds and the start of the First World War, only part of Taut's settlement plans were implemented.

Colorful and eye-catching: Tuschkastensiedlung

The intensely colored facades of the houses are particularly striking, which is why the housing estate is generally known as the Tuschkastensiedlung (watercolor paint box estate). This was the first time that Taut used such an intense color scheme as a decorative element for an entire housing estate and was heavily criticized for it at the time. Today, this is precisely her trademark.

Honoring the Gartenstadt Falkenberg

At the beginning of the 1990s, the federal government launched a competition for the further development of the area. The architects Quick and Bäckmann won and continued the development of the site, albeit at a distance from Taut's designs. The estate, which is structured like a grown village, is still popular today and tenant fluctuation is very low. Since 2008, Gartenstadt Falkenberg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of six Berlin Modernist housing estates.

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 Address
Gartenstadtweg 40
12524 Berlin
Architect
Bruno Taut

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Last edited: 30 January 2025