Oberschöneweide: Helmholtz-Kiez

Helmholtz-Kiez is an employment-oriented area with industrial or commercial uses in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick. The local streetscape is chiefly defined by historic buildings and older street patterns; apartment buildings and compact residential blocks; industrial sites, workshops and employment-oriented uses; as well as new development alongside traces of earlier uses. How Helmholtz-Kiez is used over the course of the day depends on work-related traffic, functional buildings and sharp transitions to smaller residential streets. Helmholtz-Kiez lies about 8.7 km southeast of central Berlin. From Helmholtz-Kiez toward Karlshorst Süd and Bahnhof Schöneweide, density, land use and street character shift step by step rather than at a sharp edge. Together, these elements make Berlin’s working landscape and its close contact with ordinary neighbourhood life central to the identity of Helmholtz-Kiez.