Siemensbahn

Once upon a time this area was the beating heart of industrial-era Berlin. The proud factories of Siemens, with the working class houses spread around it and the idyllic Jungfernheide swimming pool around the corner.

Manufacturing is still continuing, but not in the amounts that made thousands of workers flock to the northwestern part of the city. And when the S-Bahn was boycotted in the eighties by people from the west, because the service was run by the GDR regime, this connection quickly became a lossmaker.

The result: from the railway bridge across the canal onwards the S-Bahn had been out of service for decades. Since several years reconstruction is ongoing, as part of a massive investment plan by Siemens and city authorities into the area. A new residential area will also be built.