The bourgeois neighborhood called Hansa Viertel in Berlin, its first version was built in 1874 by a Hamburg real estate development firm. Hence the name, in homage to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, also in Germany and, therefore, the streets of the neighborhood are named after places, neighborhoods, or streets of Hamburg
After the Second World War and the almost total destruction of the buildings, the neighborhood was rebuilt and the old bourgeois houses of industrialists and intellectuals from the 19th century were replaced by housing for social use, designed under international modernist principles.
The works were supposed to end in 1957 and form part of the great International Construction Exhibition, INTERBAU, which took place from July 6th to September 29th of that year. And so it was, with the exception of some works, which have not been able to complete to date, inaugurated most of the buildings. These were visited by people from many parts of the world, who came to see the works of the most famous modernist architects of that time: Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Pierre Vago and many others.
The neighborhood strictly followed the principles of the Charter of Athens and aimed to become a prototype, a model to be followed by the architecture that would be produced during the reconstruction of Berlin in the post-war period.
Duration: approximately 2 hours