Berlin's Modernism housing estates on the World Heritage list

Six Berlin estates went onto the World Heritage list in 2008 as "Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne", and a seventh, the Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, was added at the committee's Busan session in July 2026. They were built between 1913 and 1934 as an answer to the housing shortage and the sanitary conditions of the rented barracks, and they are still flats with tenants in them rather than monuments, which means the evidence is all outside: the roofs, the colour, the way the blocks are set against planting. What follows is where each component sits, who drew it, and what the inscription actually covers.

Places in this collection

• Großsiedlung Siemensstadt — Known also as the Ringsiedlung, after the architects' association Der Ring whose members divided the rows between them, on the Charlottenbu…
• Weiße Stadt — Built in Reinickendorf between 1929 and 1931 under Martin Wagner's overall direction, with Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, Bruno Ahrends and Wilhel…
• Wohnstadt Carl Legien — Bruno Taut with Franz Hillinger, 1928 to 1930, and the only component of the seven built inside a fully developed inner district, in Prenzl…
• Gartenstadt Falkenberg — The earliest of the inscribed estates and the one closest to the English garden-city model, at the southeastern edge of the city rather tha…
• Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf — Bruno Taut's largest work of the group was built into standing pine woodland between 1926 and 1932, and the trees left between the rows are…

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