# Staaken > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Staaken > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Staaken.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staaken > Source revision: 1324738725 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{for|the railway station|Berlin-Staaken railway station}} {{Infobox German location |name = Staaken |name_local = |image_photo = Staaken1.JPG |image_caption = Village church with commemoration cross to Staaken's division from 1951 to 1990 |type = Quarter |City = Berlin |image_coa = |coordinates = {{Coord|52|31|57|N|13|08|29|E|format=dms|type:city(46,000)_region:DE-BE|display=inline,title}} |state = Berlin |district = |borough = Spandau |divisions = |elevation = 50 |area = 10.9 |pop_ref = {{Population Germany|key=11|datref=QUELLE}} |population = {{Population Germany|key=110504}} |population_as_of = {{Population Germany|key=11|datref=STAND}} |postal_code = 13591 |area_code = |licence = B |year = 1273 |plantext = Location of Staaken in Spandau district and Berlin |image_plan = Berlin Spandau Staaken.png |website = }} '''Staaken''' ({{IPA|de|ˈʃtaːkŋ̍|-|De-Staaken.ogg}}) is a [locality](/source/Boroughs_and_localities_of_Berlin) at the western rim of [Berlin](/source/Berlin) within the borough of [Spandau](/source/Spandau). ==History== First mentioned in a 1273 deed as ''Stakene'' (from [Middle Low German](/source/Middle_Low_German): ''staken'', "stakes") in the [Mittelmark](/source/Mittelmark) region of the [Margraviate of Brandenburg](/source/Margraviate_of_Brandenburg), the [linear settlement](/source/linear_settlement) probably arose around 1200 in the course of the [German eastward migration](/source/Ostsiedlung). The estates were then held by the [Benedictine](/source/Order_of_Saint_Benedict) nunnery of Spandau; after the [Protestant Reformation](/source/Protestant_Reformation) they fell to the Spandau municipal administration. thumb|left|R.VI in front of the Zeppelin halls The former village became part of Berlin by the [Greater Berlin Act](/source/Greater_Berlin_Act) of 1920. The development of the area started with the construction of the Staaken [garden city](/source/garden_city_movement) by [architect](/source/architect) [Paul Schmitthenner](/source/Paul_Schmitthenner) in 1914. At the beginning of [World War I](/source/World_War_I) the [Luftschiffbau Zeppelin](/source/Luftschiffbau_Zeppelin) company acquired large estates in Staaken, where from 1915 on it manufactured [zeppelin](/source/zeppelin) airships and the series of one-off ''[Riesenflugzeug](/source/Riesenflugzeug)'' "giant" multi-engined bombers, among the largest of their day anywhere, culminating in the small series of [R.VI](/source/Zeppelin-Staaken_R.VI) [biplane](/source/biplane) [strategic bombers](/source/strategic_bombers) built by the firm. In 1919 the regulations of the [Treaty of Versailles](/source/Treaty_of_Versailles) finished the production and the area was transformed into an [airfield](/source/airfield).{{Cite web|title=Forgotten airfields europe|url=https://forgottenairfields.com/airfield-berlin-staaken-433.html|access-date=2021-01-19|website=forgottenairfields.com}} There had been regular Zeppelin flights to [Friedrichshafen](/source/Friedrichshafen) and even to [London](/source/London) from 1919 on, though in the following years most of the [aviation](/source/aviation) moved to [Tempelhof Airport](/source/Tempelhof_Airport). The former zeppelin manufacturing halls were turned into the [Staaken Studios](/source/Staaken_Studios) and used as the location for various [film production](/source/film_production)s, e.g. parts of [Fritz Lang](/source/Fritz_Lang)'s ''[Metropolis](/source/Metropolis_(1927_film))''. In 1929 the estate was sold to the City of Berlin, while parts of the airport were still used by the [Deutsche Luft Hansa](/source/Deutsche_Luft_Hansa) for [flight training](/source/flight_training) and maintenance purposes. In ''Albrechtshof'' the [Demag](/source/Demag) (''Deutsche Maschinenfabrik AG'') built [Panther tank](/source/Panther_tank)s during [World War II](/source/World_War_II) using [forced labour](/source/forced_labour) of over 2,500 prisoners held in the nearby [Falkenhagen](/source/Falkensee) [labour camp](/source/Arbeitslager), a subcamp of the [Sachsenhausen concentration camp](/source/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp). ===Cold War=== thumb|Occupied Berlin, territorial exchange visible at the western rim After World War II Staaken was divided by a territorial exchange contract between the [Allies](/source/Allies_of_World_War_II) [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) and [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) of 30 August 1945. The borders of the British occupational sector of Berlin were reshaped so that, that by incorporating the so-called [Seeburger Zipfel](/source/Seeburger_Zipfel) it would include the entire former [Luftwaffe](/source/Luftwaffe) airfield at [Berlin-Gatow](/source/RAF_Gatow) in the southwestern corner of this sector. In return the so-called ''Dorf Staaken'' (Staaken Village) and ''Albrechtshof'', nowadays called West Staaken (at the most western end of the British Sector) was de jure assigned to the Soviets. The geographically eastern Staaken remained with the political West. However, the de facto administration remained with the [Borough of Spandau](/source/Spandau) in the British sector. So all inhabitants of Staaken could vote for West-Berlin's [city state](/source/city_state) elections in 1948 and 1950. On 1 February 1951 East German [Volkspolizei](/source/Volkspolizei) took over control of West Staaken, including the airfield and adjacent [Neu-Jerusalem](/source/Neu-Jerusalem) located there, and ended the administration by the Spandau Borough; instead West Staaken became an [exclave](/source/exclave) of East Berlin's [then Borough of Mitte](/source/Mitte_(locality)). This gave rise to the confusing fact, that the geographically western Staaken was part of the politically Eastern [East Berlin](/source/East_Berlin) at the geographically western outskirts of [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin), while the geographically eastern Staaken remained with the political Western British sector, thus West Berlin. East Germany then moved up its border checkpoint towards West Berlin from [Dallgow](/source/Dallgow-D%C3%B6beritz) more eastwards to West Staaken. On 1 June 1952 West Staaken's de facto administration was conveyed to neighbouring East German [Falkensee](/source/Falkensee), which incorporated West Staaken on 1 January 1961. From 13 August the same year until its opening and removal after 9 November 1989 the [Berlin Wall](/source/Berlin_Wall) cut through the two parts of Staaken, with one East German [border crossing](/source/Berlin_border_crossings) on Heerstraße. Since 1 January 1971 western Staaken, officially simply named Staaken, formed a municipality of its own, with a population amounting to 4,146 at that time. On 3 October 1990, the day of [unification](/source/German_reunification) of East Germany, East and West Berlin with the West German [Federal Republic of Germany](/source/West_Germany) both Staakens reunited to form a locality of the Spandau Borough. ===Border crossing=== thumb|Railroad border crossing, 1986 Albrechtshof station had been the site of a [rail border crossing](/source/Berlin_border_crossings), it was closed in 1961 after an East German [train driver](/source/railroad_engineer), Harry Deterling, [fled from the GDR](/source/Republikflucht) by breaking through the barriers towards the ''Gartenstadt Staaken'' in [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin) with a whole train. The event was dramatised in the 1963 [West German](/source/West_Germany) [film](/source/film) ''Durchbruch Lok 234'' (The Breakthrough). The route to Albrechtshof was only reconnected in 1995 after [German reunification](/source/German_reunification). In 1976 the [GDR](/source/East_Germany) opened a separate rail border crossing station ''Staaken'' for rail transit to western Germany farther away from the border to West Berlin. Up to 1980 the eastern part of Staaken inside [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin) was served by [S-Bahn](/source/Berlin_S-Bahn). This service was abandoned by the East German [Reichsbahn](/source/Deutsche_Reichsbahn_(East_Germany)) Headquarters after the big strike of the West Berlin Reichsbahn workers. A reconnection today is highly unlikely. thumb|Heerstrasse border crossing in 1955, an Opel vehicle heading east to West Berlin and a Mercedes heading west into East Germany The car traffic, travelling along ''F 5'' between West Berlin and the East [German Democratic Republic](/source/East_Germany) or the West German [Federal Republic](/source/West_Germany), e.g. to [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), was subject to the [Interzonal traffic](/source/Interzonal_traffic) regulations that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the [Transit Agreement (1972)](/source/Transit_Agreement_(1972)). On 1 January 1988 the transit traffic to West Berlin was redirected to the new East German Stolpe checkpoint (a part of today's [Hohen Neuendorf](/source/Hohen_Neuendorf))/West Berlin-[Heiligensee](/source/Heiligensee). From 1988 to 9 November 1989 the Heerstraße [border crossing](/source/Berlin_border_crossings) was open for the highly restricted traffic between West Berlin and East Germany. Highly restricted in this case means citizens of West Berlin had to apply for a visiting permit to visit relatives; while only GDR citizens above the age of 65 could apply to visit relatives in West Berlin. Eastern controls were slowly eased into spot checks and finally abolished on 30 June 1990, the day East and West introduced the union concerning currency, economy and social security ({{langx|de|[Währungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialunion](/source/%3Ade%3AW%C3%A4hrungs-%2C_Wirtschafts-_und_Sozialunion)}}). ==Geography== Staaken borders on the localities of [Spandau](/source/Spandau_(locality)) proper, [Falkenhagener Feld](/source/Falkenhagener_Feld) and [Wilhelmstadt](/source/Wilhelmstadt). In the west it shares border with the [Brandenburg](/source/Brandenburg) municipalities of [Falkensee](/source/Falkensee) and [Dallgow-Döberitz](/source/Dallgow-D%C3%B6beritz) with the village of [Seeburg](/source/Seeburg%2C_Brandenburg), part of [Havelland](/source/Havelland_(district)) district. Buildings range from small [detached house](/source/detached_house)s and a [garden city](/source/Garden_city_movement) around the historic village centre in the west to larger 1960s and 1970s [housing estate](/source/housing_estate)s in the east. ===Subdivisions=== The locality of Staaken includes six sites ({{langx|de|Ortslagen}}) or neighbourhoods (''Siedlungen''): *Dorf Staaken ("Staaken Village"), the historic settlement around the Alt-Staaken village church *Albrechtshof, a family home colony in the northwest, around [Berlin Albrechtshof station](/source/Berlin_Albrechtshof_station) *Gartenstadt Staaken ([Staaken Garden City](/source/Staaken_Garden_City)), built from 1914 to 1917 according to plans designed by [Paul Schmitthenner](/source/Paul_Schmitthenner), today protected as a historic monument *[Neu-Jerusalem](/source/Neu-Jerusalem), an early example of [New Objectivity](/source/New_Objectivity_(architecture)) residential construction along western [Heerstraße](/source/Heerstra%C3%9Fe_(Berlin)), erected in 1923/24 according to plans by [Erwin Anton Gutkind](/source/Erwin_Anton_Gutkind) and [Leberecht Migge](/source/Leberecht_Migge) *Neu-Staaken with Louise-Schroeder-Siedlung, several housing estates built in the 1960s and 70s on former [allotment](/source/Allotment_(gardening)) land in the east which then belonged to [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin) *Siedlung Hahneberg, a family home estate in the southwest. ===Transportation=== Staaken is served by [RegionalExpress](/source/RegionalExpress) and [RegionalBahn](/source/RegionalBahn) trains of the [Deutsche Bahn](/source/Deutsche_Bahn) at the stations ''Staaken'' and ''Albrechtshof''. A [S-Bahn](/source/Berlin_S-Bahn) connection to ''Albrechtshof'' is planned. The [Bundesstraße 5](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe_5) federal highway runs through the locality along Heerstraße. ==Notable people== * [Katarina Witt](/source/Katarina_Witt) (born 1965), figure skater, born in the GDR municipality of Staaken ==Gallery== File:Staaken_Gartenstadt_church.jpg|Garden City Church File:Staaken_Gartenstadt_Pfarrhof.jpg|Beim Pfarrhof File:Staaken_Gartenstadt_Giebeln.jpg|Zwischen den Giebeln File:Staaken_Gartenstadt_Torweg.jpg|Torweg File:Staaken_Gartenstadt_langen_Weg.jpg|Am langen Weg ==See also== * [Berlin Albrechtshof railway station](/source/Berlin_Albrechtshof_railway_station) * [Berlin-Staaken railway station](/source/Berlin-Staaken_railway_station) * [Challenge 1930](/source/Challenge_1930) * [Challenge 1932](/source/Challenge_1932) * [Bullengraben](/source/Bullengraben) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Berlin-Staaken|Staaken}} * {{In lang|de|cap=yes}} [http://www.staaken.info Staaken info website] * {{In lang|de|cap=yes}} [https://www.berlin.de/ba-spandau/ueber-den-bezirk/ortsteile/staaken/artikel.190126.php Staaken page on www.berlin.de] {{Boroughs of Berlin}} {{Authority control}} Category:Aviation history of Berlin Category:Boroughs and quarters of Berlin * --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Staaken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staaken) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staaken?action=history)). 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