The best city hikes and walks around Volkspark Jungfernheide

The Rapsstraße is probably one of the most beautiful streets in the historic Siemens settlement. Particularly pretty to look at are the well-kept front gardens and the lovely terraced houses by architect Hans C. Hertlein.

The Siemensstadt housing estate, built by Hertlein in the 1920s. Perimeter block development with plenty of greenery in the courtyards.

The 4.5-kilometer-long Siemensbahn line ends at Gartenfeld station. Residents of the new housing developments on Gartenfeld Island will particularly benefit from the new station. This station will also be renovated in accordance with historic preservation regulations. As part of the work, a new, barrier-free entrance will be created to the south of the station. Part of the former sidings will be rebuilt in the station forecourt. S-Bahn trains can be cleaned and serviced there. For noise protection reasons, the four maintenance tracks will be housed in a hall. The historic interlocking system will no longer be needed and will be dismantled. A new electronic interlocking system (ESTW) will be built. Further information about the planned reactivation can be found at https://www.i2030.de/siemensbahn/.

The Siemensbahn railway is scheduled to be reactivated by the end of 2029 and connect the "Siemensstadt Square" district, which is being developed in parallel (https://www.siemensstadt.siemens.com/de), to the railway. The most important access point to the new residential and workplace areas is Siemensstadt station. In the future, trains will run from here every ten minutes towards the center of Berlin. The station will be renovated in accordance with historic preservation standards and equipped with a new platform roof, new barrier-free platform entrances, and a new station building. A special feature of Siemensstadt station is that the station, including the platform entrances, is partially built as an elevated platform. The platform bridge rests on the track bridges of the Rohrdamm railway overpass. More information is available at https://www.i2030.de/siemensbahn/.

The Siemensbahn railway is scheduled to be reactivated by the end of 2029 and connect the Siemensstadt Square district, which is being developed in parallel, to the railway network. The most important access point to the new residential and workplace areas is Siemensstadt station. In the future, trains will run from here every ten minutes towards the center of Berlin. The station will be renovated in accordance with historic preservation standards and equipped with a new platform roof, new barrier-free platform entrances, and a new station building. A special feature of Siemensstadt station is that the station, including the platform entrances, is partially built as an elevated platform. The platform bridge rests on the track bridges of the Rohrdamm railway overpass. More information is available at https://www.i2030.de/siemensbahn/.

On December 13, 1929, Siemens and the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) unveiled the new Siemensbahn in Berlin to the public, and official operations began five days later. The journey on the 4.7-kilometer line from Jungfernheide S-Bahn station via Wernerwerk and Siemensstadt stations to Gartenfeld took less than ten minutes, and trains ran every five minutes during rush hour. Highly praised at the time in the daily and trade press, the gap between the Ringbahn and the Siemensstadt district of Spandau has, however, been living a shadowy existence for four decades and is one of Berlin's most famous "lost places." This is set to change in the near future as part of the "new Siemensstadt" project.

The Siemens company provided the Protestant congregation with the land set aside for the construction of the church, along with the rectory and parish hall, free of charge. As the client, it covered the estimated cost of the building, estimated at 660,000 marks (approximately €3.19 million in today's currency, adjusted for purchasing power). The foundation stone for the new church was laid on July 21, 1929. The consecration of the new place of worship for the now approximately 9,000 congregants took place on December 9, 1931, in the presence of Carl Friedrich von Siemens. After the church was completed, the chapel was demolished and rebuilt as the Wichern Chapel (today: Wichern Church) in the Hakenfelde forest settlement, and consecrated on October 23, 1932.

The Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Church, along with the attached parish hall and two-story rectory, forms a building complex in Siemensstadt. It was completed in 1935 and is a listed historic monument. The church building's longitudinal axis is aligned west-east along Goebelstraße. The single-story parish hall has its entrance at Natalissteig 2, and the rectory is located at Quellweg 43. The hall church has a semicircular closed apse and a tower on the side, set on a square floor plan.