Staaken ( German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaːkŋ̍] ) is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau .
31-635: Staaken Studios was a film studio located in Staaken on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin . A large former zeppelin hangar , it was converted to film use following the First World War and operated during the Weimar Republic . In July 1923 it was the largest studio in the world, with floor space of around 18,000 square feet . It was used for the construction of massive sets on
62-462: A garden city around the historic village centre in the west to larger 1960s and 1970s housing estates in the east. The locality of Staaken includes six sites ( German : Ortslagen ) or neighbourhoods ( Siedlungen ): Staaken is served by RegionalExpress and RegionalBahn trains of the Deutsche Bahn at the stations Staaken and Albrechtshof . A S-Bahn connection to Albrechtshof
93-794: A 1273 deed as Stakene (from Middle Low German : staken , "stakes") in the Mittelmark region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg , the linear settlement probably arose around 1200 in the course of the German eastward migration . The estates were then held by the Benedictine nunnery of Spandau; after the Protestant Reformation they fell to the Spandau municipal administration. The former village became part of Berlin by
124-457: A consortium of Siemens and Bosch. Siemens and Bosch then divested the different units between them and the Demag units became a part of Siemens. These were Demag plastics technology (with Krauss-Maffei), Demag compressor technology and Demag conveyor technology, which included the Demag mobile cranes and the crane manufacturer Gottwald. In the autumn of 2001, Siemens sold the core activities of
155-672: A locality of the Spandau Borough. Albrechtshof station had been the site of a rail border crossing , it was closed in 1961 after an East German train driver , Harry Deterling, fled from the GDR by breaking through the barriers towards the Gartenstadt Staaken in West Berlin with a whole train. The event was dramatised in the 1963 West German film Durchbruch Lok 234 (The Breakthrough). The route to Albrechtshof
186-474: A series of major productions of the silent era , including I.N.R.I. , Metropolis , The Holy Mountain and The Ship of Lost Souls . These epics were a part of the German attempt on world markets during the decade. The 1927 Anglo-German co-production The Ghost Train was shot at Staaken . In 1929, following the Wall Street Crash , the studio's owners collapsed financially and Staaken
217-591: A world leader in the manufacturing of injection moulding machines. In 1973 the ownership of Demag was assumed by the Mannesmann group, based in Düsseldorf . In 1983 Mannesmann-Demag AG and Wean United, Inc. of Pittsburgh , United States, founded a daughter company to produce steel working equipment, Mannesmann Demag Wean Co. A joint venture with the Japanese manufacturer Komatsu led to spinning off of
248-711: Is highly unlikely. The car traffic, travelling along F 5 between West Berlin and the East German Democratic Republic or the West German Federal Republic , e.g. to Hamburg , was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement (1972) . On 1 January 1988 the transit traffic to West Berlin was redirected to
279-566: Is planned. The Bundesstraße 5 federal highway runs through the locality along Heerstraße. Demag Demag (In German De utsche M aschinenbau- A ktien g esellschaft ) was a German heavy equipment industrial group whose individual companies are now scattered. The Demag name can be today found for example as the Demag Cranes and Components and Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. The roots of Demag date back prior to its formation, but became Märkische Maschinenbau-Anstalt, Ludwig A.-G in 1906 as
310-801: The Berlin Staaken plant. During the buildup to, and during World War II, Demag-designed halftrack military vehicles, both in unarmored "artillery tractor" models in the late 1930s, the basis for the powertrain of their armored Sd.Kfz. 250 , which itself played an important role during the war, with just over 6,600 built by Demag and their subcontractors. In 1954, Demag developed their first hydraulic excavators. Demag would soon expand into construction machines, vehicle cranes, moving and conveying engineering (workshop crane and control devices), steel mill technology (complete metallurgical plants, in particular continuous casting equipment), compressors , and compressed air engineering. The company also became
341-488: The Berlin Wall cut through the two parts of Staaken, with one East German border crossing on Heerstraße. Since 1 January 1971 western Staaken, officially simply named Staaken, formed a municipality of its own, with a population amounting to 4,146 at that time. On 3 October 1990, the day of unification of East Germany, East and West Berlin with the West German Federal Republic of Germany both Staakens reunited to form
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#1732786785648372-605: The Greater Berlin Act of 1920. The development of the area started with the construction of the Staaken garden city by architect Paul Schmitthenner in 1914. At the beginning of World War I the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company acquired large estates in Staaken, where from 1915 on it manufactured zeppelin airships and the series of one-off Riesenflugzeug "giant" multi-engined bombers, among
403-690: The Staaken Studios and used as the location for various film productions , e.g. parts of Fritz Lang 's Metropolis . In 1929 the estate was sold to the City of Berlin, while parts of the airport were still used by the Deutsche Luft Hansa for flight training and maintenance purposes. In Albrechtshof the Demag ( Deutsche Maschinenfabrik AG ) built Panther tanks during World War II using forced labour of over 2,500 prisoners held in
434-433: The airfield and adjacent Neu-Jerusalem located there, and ended the administration by the Spandau Borough; instead West Staaken became an exclave of East Berlin's then Borough of Mitte . This gave rise to the confusing fact, that the geographically western Staaken was part of the politically Eastern East Berlin at the geographically western outskirts of West Berlin , while the geographically eastern Staaken remained with
465-669: The biggest crane building company in Germany employing 250-300 people. The company was a manufacturer of industrial cranes that included types like, bridge cranes , hoist (device) , overhead cranes , Gantry crane to name a few. In 1910 came the hour of the Deutsche Maschinenfabrik in Duisburg – known worldwide by its telegram abbreviation Demag (now Demag Cranes & Components GmbH ). In 1973 The Mannesmann group assumed ownership of Demag. The Demag company
496-522: The day East and West introduced the union concerning currency, economy and social security ( German : Währungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialunion ). Staaken borders on the localities of Spandau proper, Falkenhagener Feld and Wilhelmstadt . In the west it shares border with the Brandenburg municipalities of Falkensee and Dallgow-Döberitz with the village of Seeburg , part of Havelland district. Buildings range from small detached houses and
527-487: The former Demag (Demag Cranes & Components, Gottwald and MPM) to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Those that remained were restructured and became part of the new company focus for future growth. For example parts of the conveying engineering activities remained with Siemens under the name Dematic . In 2002 Siemens sold the Demag Mobile Cranes division, which has not been a part of the package sold to KKR,
558-430: The injection moulding manufacturing was merged with that of Krauss-Maffei , which had itself been acquired by Mannesmann from 1989, to form Mannesmann Demag Krauss Maffei and formed part of Mannesmann Atecs (for Advanced Technologies), a holding company for all of Mannesmann's non-telecom activities. Krauss Maffei's general equipment manufacturing and defence portions later passed to Linke/Hoffmann/Busch. The holding company
589-536: The large-scale excavation operations and their renaming as Komatsu Mining. The steel and rolling mill technology division, based in Duisburg , was spun off to Schloemann-Siemag (SMS) and continues today under the name SMS group. The compressor division was sold in 1996 to CompAir, which was then part of the British Siebe/Invensys group, but has since become an independent company. Later (1999),
620-543: The largest of their day anywhere, culminating in the small series of R.VI biplane strategic bombers built by the firm. In 1919 the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles finished the production and the area was transformed into an airfield . There had been regular Zeppelin flights to Friedrichshafen and even to London from 1919 on, though in the following years most of the aviation moved to Tempelhof Airport . The former zeppelin manufacturing halls were turned into
651-645: The nearby Falkenhagen labour camp , a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After World War II Staaken was divided by a territorial exchange contract between the Allies United Kingdom and Soviet Union of 30 August 1945. The borders of the British occupational sector of Berlin were reshaped so that, that by incorporating the so-called Seeburger Zipfel it would include the entire former Luftwaffe airfield at Berlin-Gatow in
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#1732786785648682-662: The new East German Stolpe checkpoint (a part of today's Hohen Neuendorf )/West Berlin- Heiligensee . From 1988 to 9 November 1989 the Heerstraße border crossing was open for the highly restricted traffic between West Berlin and East Germany. Highly restricted in this case means citizens of West Berlin had to apply for a visiting permit to visit relatives; while only GDR citizens above the age of 65 could apply to visit relatives in West Berlin. Eastern controls were slowly eased into spot checks and finally abolished on 30 June 1990,
713-413: The political Western British sector, thus West Berlin. East Germany then moved up its border checkpoint towards West Berlin from Dallgow more eastwards to West Staaken. On 1 June 1952 West Staaken's de facto administration was conveyed to neighbouring East German Falkensee , which incorporated West Staaken on 1 January 1961. From 13 August the same year until its opening and removal after 9 November 1989
744-764: The southwestern corner of this sector. In return the so-called Dorf Staaken (Staaken Village) and Albrechtshof , nowadays called West Staaken (at the most western end of the British Sector) was de jure assigned to the Soviets. The geographically eastern Staaken remained with the political West. However, the de facto administration remained with the Borough of Spandau in the British sector. So all inhabitants of Staaken could vote for West-Berlin's city state elections in 1948 and 1950. On 1 February 1951 East German Volkspolizei took over control of West Staaken, including
775-750: The takeover of Demag when it purchased 82% of the shares of Demag Cranes Ag. Demag became the Terex Material Handling & Port Solutions (MHPS) division. In 2008 KRR sold MPM to Sumitomo Heavy Industries and is known today as Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. In 2019 Terex decided to sell the Mobile Cranes division to the Japan based Tadano and it became the Tadano Demag Gmbh. In 2020 Tadano Demag Gmbh filed for insolvency. Surviving restructuring Tadano announced that it will drop
806-507: Was acquired by the Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat. It was equipped for sound film , but it increasingly struggled to attract new productions. Amongst the films shot during the early 1930s were The Threepenny Opera and Ariane . After 1934 it was no longer available as a film studio. This article about a film studio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Staaken First mentioned in
837-762: Was formed finally 1910 in Duisburg through the union of the Märkische Maschinenbau-Anstalt L. Stuckenholz AG , the Duisburg Mechanical Engineering AG , and the Benrath Machine Works GmbH . The Märkische Maschinenbau-Anstalt L. Stuckenholz AG traces back to the machine factory Mechanische Werkstätten Harkort & Co. , founded 1819 in Wetter an der Ruhr , already beginning the manufacturing of cranes in 1840. In 1908, they designed what
868-401: Was later named Mannesmann Plastics Machinery or MPM, with primary divisions Demag Plastics and Krauss-Maffei. In February 2000 Mannesmann was taken over by Vodafone . All of Mannesmann's industrial activities, which had been combined under Atecs (meaning Advanced Technologies) holding company in order to strategically separate mobile communications and industrial activities, were divested to
899-668: Was only reconnected in 1995 after German reunification . In 1976 the GDR opened a separate rail border crossing station Staaken for rail transit to western Germany farther away from the border to West Berlin. Up to 1980 the eastern part of Staaken inside West Berlin was served by S-Bahn . This service was abandoned by the East German Reichsbahn Headquarters after the big strike of the West Berlin Reichsbahn workers. A reconnection today
930-498: Was sold to US based company Terex . KKR initiated a major reorganization of the Demag Crane & Components organization, including a refocused effort of their product lines. The production and general company focus changed to Overhead cranes , hoists , Gantry cranes , and Portal cranes under the name Gottwald . In 2006 KKR combined Demag Cranes and Gottwald under Demag Cranes Ag and went public. in 2011 Terex completed
961-536: Was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast , which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic . Starting in 1925, Demag also manufactured excavators . They expanded to manufacture locomotives and railroad cars . During the Second World War , armoured fighting vehicles (in particular Bergepanther ) were built in