Housing projects in the development area
Around 6,000 people now live in the Science City Adlershof. An overview of the residential projects that are under construction or have been completed at the site can be found here:
Urban quarter “Segelflieger Quartier”
By the early 2030s, a new urban quarter with 2,200 flats and commercial facilities will be built on the site of the former “VEB Kühlautomat” between Segelfliegerdamm, Groß-Berliner Damm and the Johannisthal Landscape Park.
History in a nutshell
Most Johannisthal residents probably associate the area on Segelfliegerdamm with VEB Kühlautomat. Between 1950 and 1996, refrigerators, cooling systems for ships and diesel engines for railway and shipbuilding were produced there. But as early as 1909, the entrepreneur and visionary Arthur Müller (1871-1935) opened Berlin’s first civilian motorised airfield here on former forest land. Later, he also had aircraft manufactured here by the Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, which was founded in 1912. A total of 5,640 aircraft left the hangars not far from today’s Segelfliegerdamm.
Eisenhutweg 54-76
In 2025, the new residential quarter of the state-owned Berlin housing company degewo on Eisenhutweg was completed.
On the 3.2-hectare site, degewo commissioned project developer and contractor KW-Development, in collaboration with NOKERA Planning architects, to build a range of attractive city villas and houses with a total of 583 flats (347 of which are subsidised) and a childcare facility.
The buildings meet the KfW 55 energy standard, and the 1.5- to 5-room flats for families, couples, singles and senior citizens are mostly barrier-free. Rents range from €6.80 (subsidised flats) to an average of €10.00 (privately financed flats).
Thanks to intelligent soundproofing, a high quality of living and a quiet residential atmosphere have been achieved despite the immediate proximity to the A113 motorway.
Further information – including details on renting – can be found on the degewo website.
Residential quarter: Wohnen am Campus I
At the end of the 2000s, the urban structure of the development area was revised and the residential area “Wohnen am Campus I” was planned. The first flats became available successively from 2014 onwards during the ten-year planning and realisation process. On the area north of Rudower Chaussee, between Groß-Berliner Damm and Karl-Ziegler-Straße, 17 residential projects were built with a total of 1,166 residential units and 386 student housing places. The last project was completed in summer 2020.
Size: approx. 16 hectares
Preparation time: 2007 to 2012 including completed development
Construction time: 2012 to 2020
Economic form:
- 4 owner-occupied properties with a total of 255 WE
- 13 rental properties with a total of 911 units
- plus 386 student dormitory places
Development concept:
- High-quality residential streets and mixed traffic areas, parking for residents mainly in underground garages (621) and above ground (101)
- approx. 120 parking spaces in public streets
Residential quarter: Wohnen am Campus II / HOWOGE rental housing construction
In 2014, the residential quarter “Wohnen am Campus I” could be expanded by 2.7 hectares, as the adjacent area was converted from commercial to residential. The “Wohnen am Campus II” neighbourhood was assigned to the municipal housing company HOWOGE.
The construction of the flats has been finished since October 2022 – the quarter is completed and almost fully let. Of the total of 612 one- to five-room flats, 252 were built as subsidised housing, 107 flats are furnished micro-apartments for students and trainees. A daycare centre for 90 children opened at the beginning of 2023.
Detailed information can be found on the HOWOGE website.
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HOWOGE Johannisgärten
The Johannisgärten residential area on a former Berlin Chemie site was completed in 2021. HOWOGE had 20 residential buildings with 314 rental flats built on the almost 26,000 m² site, a large day care centre with around 25 places, three commercial units, a DHL packing station and a parking garage with 121 parking spaces.
There is no car traffic in the residential area itself; the settlement area character of the two- to five-storey houses mediates between the single-family houses on Melli-Beese-Strasse and the commercial buildings on Segelfliegerdamm. The special thing about the Johannisgärten: they were built using two construction systems. Six houses in environmentally friendly timber hybrid construction, 13 in solid construction and one house in a combination of both types of construction.
Rental is only possible through the housing association HOWOGE.
VivaCity Adlershof
The VivaCity Adlershof project was built on a 2.25-hectare mixed-use area at the Straße am Flugplatz/Eisenhutweg roundabout. In 2019, 136 flats, a retirement home with 103 places and a daycare centre with 129 places run by the Johanniter Foundation, retail, shops and commercial space were completed in direct proximity to the Johannisthal landscape park.
Living near the Landscape Park
Between 2004 and 2009, single-family homes with 386 residential units were built to the west of the “Flugfeld Johannisthal” nature and landscape park for people who appreciate a quiet and green living environment without having to forego proximity to the city centre and a good infrastructure. Here, both individual builders and building groups found appropriate space to realise their dreams.
Temporary accommodation
- Medienfenster
mueller-reimann.de/projekte/medienfenster-adlershof - IGAFA guest houses
igafa.de/en/guest-houses-ibz/ibz-adlershof/ - Adapt Apartments Berlin Adlershof
www.adaptapartments.de - Hotel Essential by Dorint Berlin-Adlershof
hotel-berlin-adlershof.dorint.com/en/ - Airport Hotel Adlershof
www.airporthotel-berlin-adlershof.de
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Downloads
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Bebauungsplan (development plan) 9-15a pdf (2,65 MB)Draft development plan for the new city quarter at Segelfliegerdamm. Published by the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, 27.04.2023 (in German)pdf (2,65 MB) -
Potenzial: Housing (in German) pdf (2,14 MB)Potenzial – The WISTA Magazine. Edition: Urban Development and Housing 2021pdf (2,14 MB) -
New city quarter at Segelfliegerdamm pdf (1,63 MB)Information on the project and the draft development plan 9-15a (in German)pdf (1,63 MB) -
Brochure „Wohnen am Campus I“ pdf (7,09 MB)Berlin-Johannisthal/Adlershof development programme: New housing construction. Published by the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing. 2020 (in German)pdf (7,09 MB) -
Urban development of the Science City Adlershof pdf (9,13 MB)Brochure published by the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment, 2013. (in German)pdf (9,13 MB)