History - NS-Dokuzentrum
Schöneweide is home to the last largely preserved former Nazi forced labor camp. It was one of more than 3,000 accommodations for forced laborers distributed throughout Berlin and was built from the end of 1943. Thirteen accommodation barracks and a centrally located utility barrack were spread over 3.3 hectares.
After 1945, the Red Army stored paper in some of the barracks. The Institute for Immunobiology of the GDR moved into the six barracks of today's Documentation Centre at the end of the 1940s. The remaining barracks are still used by a workshop, a sauna, a day care center, a car dealership, and a bowling alley. The goal is to integrate these areas and buildings into the documentation center as well.
Ausgang / Hauptachse © Tobias Wille
Redesign - NS-Dokuzentrum
All planning was closely coordinated with the Topography of Terror and Social Pedagogical Institute foundations as well as an international advisory board of historians and the Senate administrations involved. This was one of the most intensive and difficult tasks. In this overarching committee, all ideas, plans, materials, etc. were considered and weighed in detail within the framework of an appropriate culture of remembrance. The Documentation Centre was opened in August 2006. Extensions and expansions are to take place successively.
Starting in 2005, Rother Rother.Architekten designers developed an overall concept for the site. Based on this, two barracks were prepared for exhibitions, events, seminars, archives, library and offices, and the outdoor facilities were designed and redesigned in collaboration with k1 Landscape Architects and Rother Rother.Architekten.
Blick von Straße © Heinrich Rother
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