Umspannwerk Berlin Reinickendorf
Breitenbachstraße 32
13509 Berlin
TRAM:
U6 – Holzhauser Straße
U8 – Rathaus Reinickendorf
Take the U8 (direction Wittenau) to the stop Residenzstraße and then the bus 125 (direction Frohnau Invalidensiedlung). Get off at the Holzhausen Straße / Schubertstraße to the exhibition. Stay out of the direction of travel and take the next street on the left into Breitenbachstraße.
S25 – Eichborndamm
Take the S25 (direction Hennigsdorf Bahnhof) exit Eichborndamm. From there you follow – over a short street right side – then the Breitenbachstraße 850 meters to the location.
HISTORICAL EXHIBITIONLOCATION
Cathedral of electricity
The industrial monument “Umspannwerk Reinickendorf”, built in 1926, was designed by Hans Heinrich Müller and today counts as a showpiece of the industrial architecture of the interwar period. Müller admired the medieval Marienburg, whose influence in terms of formal language and detail education varied widely visible in almost all buildings Muller. With a great flair for details, he oriented himself to the Brandenburg brick Gothic. The building has 6000 m2 of exhibition space on 4 levels and a huge cellar vault.