Building and concrete tunnel against a blue sky

Bold and innovative High deck settlement

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Kiez at a glance

In the 1970s, the apartments in the High Deck settlement in southern Neukölln were in high demand. The architectural style was considered bold and innovative because it set itself apart from the high-rise buildings of other large settlements. The settlement has been under monument protection since November 2020. Intercultural exchange in the neighborhood, lots of greenery, play facilities for children and filming locations for a popular series make the High Deck development a very special place to live today.

resident	8,346
of which under 18 years of age	24.8%
HOWOGE apartments	1,916
green spaces	3.75 hectares
tallest house	6 floors
As the crow flies to Alex	6.31 km

Status: November 2022

Living in a monument

The High Deck settlement in Neukölln is an architectural specialty. The number of bridges makes you think of Venice: winding paths lead above streets and traffic from block to block.

Around 100 bridges span the streets and paths of the High Deck settlement.

Heidekampgraben

The Heidekampgraben is a watercourse that separates the districts of Treptow-Köpenick and southern Neukölln from each other. The body of water, which is around 3.5 kilometers long, runs directly behind the High Deck settlement. The green corridor on its banks invites you to go for a walk. There are play and recreation areas, small bridges and footbridges. In GDR times, the border between East and West ran right here - today the Heidekampgraben green corridor is part of the Berlin Wall Trail.

Café Zimtschnecke

If love were a pastry, it would be a cinnamon roll: In the café of the same name in the Sonnencenter, Sonnenallee 330, you immediately feel welcome. The Erol family bakes the bestseller in all possible variations themselves – with a lot of love, you can tell: from blueberry cinnamon to bee sting vanilla pudding to lotus biscoff. The siblings Enes, Gülbahar and Ismail and Mama Gülsum also bake and serve cakes, hot drinks and small dishes. Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 5.30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

architecture

The settlement owes its name to the raised areas that connect the five to six-story buildings with each other via pedestrian walkways, bridges and ramps. There are ten high decks in total, five each south and north of Sonnenallee. Below are the streets, parking lots and garages. The design by the architects Rainer Oefelein and Bernhard Freund was implemented in the 1970s and 1980s - 2,400 apartments were built as part of social housing at the time.

facade pictures

The "largest aviary in the city" is on Heinrich-Schlusnus-Straße: around 150 bird motifs adorn the facades of house numbers 8 to 12. Swans, storks, owls, blue tits and parrots flutter over the colorful areas. Together with the artist Halim Bensaid from the CitéCréation Lyon, young people not only created a special eye-catcher there in 2009: Four of them also completed an apprenticeship in a painting company in this context. In the Fritzi-Massary-Strasse you can also find artistically designed facades.

Neighborhood meeting place "right in the middle"

The neighborhood meeting place “mittendrin” at Sonnenallee 319 offers a warm lunch, dance classes, film afternoons, senior gymnastics followed by a coffee gossip and much more. The meeting is a project of the district management of the High Deck settlement. Anyone who wants to keep up to date on events in “mittendrin”, offers from other neighborhood projects and news from the neighborhood is best informed via the flyer “cover sheet”, which the neighborhood management publishes monthly.

To the flyer

Schulenburg Park with fairytale forest playground

Recorded since 1913, Vonder-Schulenburg-Park is a garden monument with meadows, a long water basin, avenues of plane trees and a Gothic-style Art Nouveau fairy-tale fountain on the southern part of Sonnenallee. Pedestrians, families and dog owners can relax and stroll here in the countryside - and children will find plenty of space to romp, climb and play in the large, lovingly designed fairytale forest playground. A large climbing castle is the heart of the playground, and if you look closely, you will discover many characters and scenes from well-known stories.