History

From 1925 onward, the 17 buildings of the Gasworks Estate were constructed, appearing like a single residential block stretching 250 meters in length. With their brick architecture, the architects Ernst Engelmann and Emil Fangmeyer drew on the stylistic traditions of the Hanseatic cities. The estate provided social housing for the employees of the neighboring gas coke plan.

Operations of the industrial site have been discontinued in the 1980s and the former grounds have since been cleaned thoroughly. The current scrub land awaits its future use as a new thermal power plant but will also partly be kept as a protected area.

The development plan for south Rummelsburg launched in 2011 provided for Gaswerksiedlung to convert from residential to commercial usage. Due to its status of “protected monument” and small-scale floor layout, its conversion into a studio house for all kinds of creative “industries” was just logical.

Since 2018, Gaswerksiedlung offers a home to numerous musicians and sound engineers, visual artists of all kinds, stage builders, filmmakers, architects…

Today, more than 500 artists operate, produce, rehearse, invent, and connect in what is one of the biggest and more interesting creative hubs of Berlin.

The complex is owned by Berliner Energie und Wärme AG and operated by Gaswerksiedlung Berlin GmbH