Holländer-Quartier
Dutch Quarter
The ensemble of buildings reminds one of the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. It was erected by Pankower Heimstätten-Gesellschaft mbH between 1925 and 1929.
The green residential complex created according to plans by architect Josef Tiedemann consists of three and four-story buildings made of red clinker and a 9,000 square meter park-like courtyard. The Dutch Quarter is adjacent to the Weissensee Community Forum designed by architect Carl James Bühring (1871-1936). The Dutch Quarter and the Community Forum are superb examples of the reform movement in housing development as a precursor to New Building Methods, whose vanguard, Bruno Taut, designed social housing projects between 1926 and 1930 in Trierer Strasse 8 18 („Parrot's House“) and Buschallee. These buildings, along with the Carl Legien Residential City on Erich-Weinert-Strasse (in the district of Prenzlauer Berg), are all under historic preservation.