Staaken

is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau.GeographyStaaken 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 a garden city around the historic village centre in the west to larger 1960s and 1970s housing estates in the east.SubdivisionsThe locality of Staaken includes six sites or neighbourhoods : Dorf Staaken, the historic settlement around the Alt-Staaken village churchAlbrechtshof, a family home colony in the northwest, around Berlin Albrechtshof stationGartenstadt Staaken, built from 1914 to 1917 according to plans designed by Paul Schmitthenner, today protected as a historic monument Neu-Jerusalem, an early example of New Objectivity residential construction along western Heerstraße, erected in 1923/24 according to plans by Erwin Anton Gutkind and Leberecht MiggeNeu-Staaken with Louise-Schroeder-Siedlung, several housing estates built in the 1960s and 70s on former allotment land in the east which then belonged to West BerlinSiedlung Hahneberg, a family home estate in the southwest.