2002

The guided tour starts in the doorway to the left-hand side of this presentation board!

In 2019, Berlin Waste Management collected 326 kg waste per inhabitant

28 kg organic waste

218 kg household waste

19 kg bulky waste

12 kg street sweepings

17 kg waste timber

32 kg other waste

Data from 2019 | Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg

13,474 residential buildings

202,866 flats

of which 13,749 are one-room flats

1,461 flats with more than 6 rooms

36 m² living space per inhabitant

Data from 2019 | Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg

“…familiar, safe and boring – just what a home is.“

“Moabit is safe, familiar and boring:

Just what a home is. I would say that it is a feeling that reaches beyond one single building into the neighbourhood.“

* Completing a year of voluntary service at “Neue Nachbarschaft“ in Moabit

Born in 1995, in Berlin since 2019

Güldeniz Torun

“It was like a miracle …“

“My move from the Scheunenviertel to Mollstraße was like a turning point – suddenly everything was new and beautiful: these large buildings with lifts – it was like a miracle!“

* former Professor of Political Economics at the Humboldt University

* first tenant in the house Mollstraße 11 – part of the Karl-Marx-Allee – in 1963

Born in 1936, in Berlin since 1959

Margrit Pawloff

“… in plain English: many derelict dumps …“

“Between 1991 and 1998, I lived in the streets of Berlin. Nowadays, I talk about my experiences as a guide at querstadtein e.V.

I show places in Berlin-Mitte, where I felt that misery had found a home.“

* Guide at querstadtein

born 1959 in Berlin

Uwe Tobias

Quarter

A delimited area in a city, often with its own name, having specific urban, architectural and social features that differente this area from other parts of the city

e. g. the Hansaviertel (Hansa Quarter)

The central part of Turmstraße belongs into cleaning group 1a*

* cleaned 10 times a week