Berlin's 'Rental Barracks'
Today’s coveted altbau began life as the derisively titled ‘Mietskaserne,’ housing for the massive influx of workers who moved to the city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the blog version of Alte Frau, New Life on June 22, 2022. It has been imported here and edited for clarity.
For those of us who have fallen in love with Berlin’s altbau (literally, “old build”) apartments, it may seem hard to believe that these were once considered tenement housing.
In the industrial bo…