As it looks now
The QAH is located in Berlin’s central Mitte district, in the Gesundbrunnen neighborhood — just minutes from the city’s main hubs.
The Quartier Am Humboldthain is part of the Humboldthain Technology Park (TPH), one of Berlin’s eleven designated “Zukunftsorte” — innovation districts where the future is already taking shape and the city’s creative and technological energy is on full display. Home to around 150 companies across technology, manufacturing, research, services, and the creative industries, as well as 22 research institutes (including the Fraunhofer Institute and TU Berlin), the TPH serves as a key center of Berlin’s economic and scientific landscape. Major institutions such as Charité and Bayer AG are also located in the immediate vicinity.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUARTER
Quartier Am Humboldthain – Part of Berlin's industrial history
The Quartier Am Humboldthain is located on the former site of the AEG factory in Humboldthain and the listed industrial brick buildings that surround the site and which now house premises for the TU Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute among others are testament to this.
The large production halls attest to the importance of the electrical industry for Berlin's industrial history.
From 1895, AEG produced electrical motors and other electronic products on this site. One of its unique features is the approximately 300 metre long subway tunnel, Germany's first underground railway, which can still be visited as part of a guided tour.
AEG closed the site in 1983. Buildings on the east side were demolished, and the Humboldthain Technology Park (TPH) was constructed on the west side. Nixdorf built a factory on the east side which remained until the early Nineties. The building that stands there today, which houses the Berliner Sparkasse Service Center, also dates from this time.
The Brunnenstr./Voltastr. Block 240 project was designed by Kleihues Architects in 1996 and constructed in the neighbouring mix-use area. It consists of an adjoining building to the Berliner Sparkasse Service Centre (see image left).
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