Utilities in East Germany (12 photo + letter)

Currently in Germany, 100 thousand apartments are empty, and the average availability of living space of 48 m2 for 1 person. The quality of housing is also impressive.
The largest area of ​​the panel building in East Berlin - Maptsan-Hellersddorf. Here and there you can see a familiar picture - construction cranes at the prefabricated houses.

But it does not build.

These prefabricated houses (the highest quality by our standards) disassemble, crush panels on the spot, and the resulting material is used in road construction.
The problem is that in areas of the so-called "Compacted building" nobody wants to live, so a group of 5 prefabricated houses are separated, the two houses are demolished and landscaped area, and the remaining three home sanitize (insulated), make major repairs and only after that start to home demand.
Panel houses in Germany ceased to build fully since unification.





This partnership SAXUM owners in East Berlin. Panel hostel was purchased by an investor (usually the selling price of 1m2 in the panel house 100-200 euros), reconstructed, and the date of purchase of the first apartment house owners formed a partnership.
Price 1m2 - 1160 euros, the price includes a plot of land with parking space under cover, decoration, plumbing and part of the furniture.
To attract buyers - the first three months of the utilities for free.
Members of the TC are including the Russian-speaking immigrants from the CIS countries, the purchase of apartments citizenship does not matter.



Instead, nearly 200 apartments are now 104, three of them are still being sold, such as this.
Part of the furniture, decoration and all the electrical and plumbing fixtures included in the price.



... On the landing ...



... At the site of the three storage - for each apartment one ...



However, TC is not popular in Germany, and only 35% of Germans are the owners. The most popular in Berlin, to be a member of HBC. To join the HBC need to make a share (from 600 to 1,400 euros, depending on the area), the entry fee (50 to 100 euros), and can live in an apartment for life, regardless of nationality.

In the case of HBC share returns, and you can immediately become a member of HBC in another district or city - in every HBC has a list of available apartments, information about them, as well as on the amount of rent and pae posted on the first floor of the house.
Thus, the share of 50% of monthly salary gives the same rights to life residence, except for the right to privatize the apartment, and goes to the heirs is not flat, but only share. The apartment always remains the property of HBC HBC Act of 1868.

The HBC, even if it is a five-story house, usually attach panoramic lifts and are built (increased in size) loggia.
All homes Germany only sealed glass doors usually ventilated facades, and within the same window of a house, the same flower pots, no satellite dishes on the facades (alone in the house).

Photo: Renovated panel floor buildings, the prototype of our "hruschёvok."



Director of IWO (Initiative Housing in Eastern Europe) Berdhart Schwartz also is not the owner of property - he prefers to live in a housing cooperative "Martsaner Thor" in the sanitized panel floor buildings with elevators and attached.

... Entrance panel five-story building (HBC) - sealed glass doors with armored glazing, Wheel Chair, motion sensors (dim light) ...



... Mailboxes are located on the street - for security reasons ...



Some panel house located in a convenient area, reconstructed as follows. Upper floors 4-5 dismantled, increased the area of ​​loggias, aggregated apartments, built a lifts, landscaped area. Now residents of this once empty house proud that their partnership of owners no one free apartment that Berlin rarity.

... Partially exploded nine-panel house, enlarged apartments, landscaped surroundings ...



German pensioner ... ...



In the backyard of some houses organized in small ponds, landscape complexes.
The tenant of the house breaks the ice in the pond, there lived a small ornamental fish.
Rubbish chutes in East Germany are virtually absent, separate collection of waste produced in the fenced areas, more like a hothouse flower.
Each resident has a key to the courts, the drivers containment machines too. Access by unauthorized persons and stray animals is excluded, this is followed by the police.



High-rise building in Berlin is not very popular, they have a lot of empty apartments and some houses are thrown, like this.

Photos and text:
Gennady Kalyonov TC "Hearth", Minsk



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