{"id":20641,"date":"2022-05-16T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=20641"},"modified":"2022-02-13T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:47:28","slug":"schlangenbader-strasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/berlin\/schlangenbader-strasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeway superstructure Schlangenbader Stra\u00dfe – unusual living in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Berlin, Open Monument Day 2018 – and I finally have time to join one of the free guided tours. In the program, a guided tour to a place that I would not have seen as a monument jumps into my eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But since December 2017, the Schlangenbader Strasse highway superstructure has been a listed building. A good reason to take a closer look at the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did they build a house over the urban highway?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the Wall was built, housing was scarce in West Berlin. The construction of a few large housing estates on the outskirts of the city (e.g. M\u00e4rkisches Viertel) led to an initial improvement in the situation, but was far from sufficient. Planning ideas emerged for densifying housing in the districts. One of the many opportunities for this presented itself in the district of Wilmersdorf, when the route of the city freeway was to be extended in the direction of Steglitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Autobahn\u00fcberf\u00fchrung<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A residential complex was planned above the highway. This was to solve 5 problems that arose from the urban planning point of view due to the construction of the highway extension:<\/p>\n\n\n\n