Märkisches Viertel: Schorfheidestraße

Schorfheidestraße is a planned residential area with substantial open space in the borough of Reinickendorf. The local streetscape is chiefly defined by apartment buildings and compact residential blocks; planned housing, courtyards and clearly structured open spaces; larger apartment blocks and high-rise buildings; as well as parks, mature trees and everyday green space. The everyday rhythm of Schorfheidestraße is shaped by repeated building types, green courtyards and the separation of through traffic from internal routes. Schorfheidestraße lies about 9.2 km northwest of central Berlin. From Schorfheidestraße toward Dannenwalder Weg and Märkisches Zentrum, density, land use and street character shift step by step rather than at a sharp edge. The immediate streets and open spaces give Schorfheidestraße a recognisable local identity of its own. This gives Schorfheidestraße a distinctive quality: the smaller everyday zones that exist inside a large planned layout.