View of Charlottenburg Power Plant (1900–1966)

A Century of Expansion – Seldom does a power plant display the stages of its development so clearly. The initial plant was built in 1900 by Georg Klingenberg, who later constructed the world-famous Klingenberg Power Station [ site 15 on Route 3 ]. Electric cables were integrated into the Siemenssteg footbridge, which also provided passage over the Spree for workers. New structures were added over time: a post-expressionist transformer house (1925), a boiler house designed as a vertically articulated cube (1953), a gas turbine plant (1975), flue-gas desulfurization (1989), and flue-gas denitrification (1994). The current facility, a giant orange block, is operated by Vattenfall.

TIP: The sculpture gallery belonging to Bildgießerei Noack is around the corner: noack.berlin